Senate Bill sb1218e1

    CS for SB 1218                           First Engrossed (ntc)



  1                      A bill to be entitled

  2         An act relating to food safety; creating s.

  3         500.033, F.S.; creating the Florida Food Safety

  4         and Food Security Advisory Council as a forum

  5         for evaluation of food safety and food security

  6         issues; providing membership; requiring

  7         reporting of findings and recommendations;

  8         providing for review of certain data; providing

  9         appropriations; providing an effective date.

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11  Be It Enacted by the Legislature of the State of Florida:

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13         Section 1.  Section 500.033, Florida Statutes, is

14  created to read:

15         500.033  Florida Food Safety and Food Security Advisory

16  Council.--

17         (1)  There is created the Florida Food Safety and Food

18  Security Advisory Council for the purpose of serving as a

19  forum for presenting, investigating, and evaluating issues of

20  current importance to the assurance of a safe and secure food

21  supply to the citizens of Florida. The Florida Food Safety and

22  Food Security Advisory Council shall consist of, but not be

23  limited to: the Commissioner of Agriculture or his or her

24  designee; the Secretary of Health or his or her designee; the

25  Secretary of Business and Professional Regulation or his or

26  her designee; the person responsible for domestic security

27  with the Florida Department of Law Enforcement; members

28  representing the production, processing, distribution, and

29  sale of foods; consumers and/or members of citizens groups or

30  food industry groups; scientists or other experts in aspects

31  of food safety from state universities; representatives from


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    CS for SB 1218                           First Engrossed (ntc)



 1  local, state, and federal agencies that are charged with

 2  responsibilities for food safety or food security; the chairs

 3  of the Agriculture Committees of the Senate and the House of

 4  Representatives or their designees; and the chairs of the

 5  committees of the Senate and the House of Representatives with

 6  jurisdictional oversight of home defense issues or their

 7  designees. The Commissioner of Agriculture shall appoint the

 8  remaining members. The council shall make periodic reports to

 9  the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services concerning

10  findings and recommendations in the area of food safety and

11  food security.

12         (2)  The council shall consider the development of

13  appropriate advice or recommendations on food safety or food

14  security issues. In the discharge of their duties, the council

15  members may receive for review confidential data exempt from

16  the provisions of s. 119.07(1); however, it is unlawful for

17  any member of the council to use the data for his or her

18  advantage or reveal the data to the general public.

19         Section 2.  There is hereby provided for fiscal year

20  2003-2004 an appropriation in the expenses category the sum of

21  $5,000 from the Contract and Grants Trust Fund within the

22  Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services and the sum of

23  $5,000 from the General Inspection Trust Fund within the

24  Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services for use in

25  payment of associated costs in the conduct of activities of

26  the Florida Food Safety and Food Security Advisory Council.

27         Section 3.  This act shall take effect July 1, 2003.

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