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The official status indicates enactment, but the specific effective date is missing from the provided metadata and summary texts.
Food and Agriculture Omnibus Bill (AB-1505)
This law extends the vertebrate pest control research program until 2035, updates rules requiring veterinarians to order certain medicines for livestock under federal and state laws, and gives officers power to inspect mobile farmers' markets.
What This Bill Does
- Extends the Vertebrate Pest Control Research program and related funding provisions until January 1, 2035.
- Continues requiring county agricultural commissioners to pay fees based on vertebrate pest control materials sold or used by their counties.
- Requires medically important antimicrobial drugs for livestock to be ordered by a licensed veterinarian through a prescription or veterinary feed directive that complies with federal and state law.
- Mandates that prescriptions for labeled uses of these drugs must follow a veterinarian-client-patient relationship.
- Mandates that veterinary feed directives and prescriptions for extralabel uses of these drugs must follow a veterinarian-client-patient relationship.
- Authorizes enforcing officers to inspect places, vehicles, documents, products, containers, and equipment related to certified mobile farmers' markets.
- Allows enforcing officers to seize and hold certain materials as evidence in cases involving violations at certified mobile farmers' markets.
Who It Names or Affects
- The Secretary of Food and Agriculture
- County agricultural commissioners
- Licensed veterinarians who treat livestock
- Operators of certified mobile farmers' markets
Terms To Know
- Vertebrate pests
- Animals with backbones that are the subject of a state research program for control.
- Medically important antimicrobial drugs
- Drugs used to treat infections in livestock that require specific ordering rules under this law.
- Veterinary feed directive
- An order from a veterinarian allowing certain medicines to be given through animal feed or water.
- Extralabel uses
- Using medicine in ways different from the official label instructions, which now require specific veterinary oversight under this bill.
Limits and Unknowns
- The effective date of the law is not listed in the provided source material.
- The text does not specify exact penalties for violations at mobile farmers' markets beyond authorizing seizure of evidence.
- The specific amounts or calculation methods for county fees are defined by existing law, which this bill extends but does not detail.