CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

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CHAPTER 381

Statutes of 2021

[ Approved by Governor September 28, 2021. Filed with Secretary of State September 28, 2021. ]

Introduced by Assembly Member Carrillo

February 19, 2021

An act to amend Section 486 of the Food and Agricultural Code, relating to agriculture.

Vote: majority   Appropriation: no   Fiscal committee: yes   Local program: no

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL’S DIGEST

Existing law authorizes the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to enter into cooperative agreements with county boards of supervisors and other specified entities for certain purposes. Existing law prohibits the secretary from entering into a cooperative agreement with a county of the first class for agricultural inspector services, if the agreement requires that the county provide year-round services, unless not less than 66% of the agricultural inspector aids and not less than 75% of the agricultural inspector associates not afforded protections as permanent employees employed under the cooperative agreement are afforded protections as permanent employees under the county’s civil service or other personnel system.

This bill would delete from the exception to that prohibition the requirement that not less than 75% of the agricultural inspector associates not afforded protections as permanent employees employed under the cooperative agreement are afforded protections as permanent employees under the county’s civil service or other personnel system.

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 486 of the Food and Agricultural Code is amended to read:

486.

Notwithstanding Section 482, the secretary may not enter into a cooperative agreement with a county of the first class, as defined in Section 28022 of the Government Code, for agricultural inspector services, if the cooperative agreement requires that the county provide year-round services, unless not less than 66 percent of the agricultural inspector aides not afforded protections as permanent employees employed under the cooperative agreement are afforded protections as permanent employees under the county’s civil service or other personnel system.