California Food and Agricultural Code

§ 58596.3

FAC § 58596.3 Effective Jan 1, 2023Div. 21 · Part 1 · Ch. 8

Statute text

(a)A public institution that receives federal meal reimbursement funding to provide prepared meals and that solicits bids for the purchase of an agricultural food product shall include in their solicitation for bids and contracts that only the purchase of agricultural food products grown, packed, or processed domestically is authorized, unless any of the following applies:

(1)The bid or price of the nondomestic agricultural food product is more than 25 percent lower than the bid or price of the domestic agricultural food product.

(2)The quality of the domestic agricultural food product is inferior to the quality of the agricultural food product grown, packed, or produced nondomestically.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 602, Sec. 2. (SB 490) Effective January 1, 2023. Operative January 1, 2024, by its own provisions. Repealed as of January 1, 2029, pursuant to Section 58596.5.