Florida Senate - 2007 COMMITTEE AMENDMENT
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11 The Committee on Agriculture (Peaden) recommended the
12 following amendment:
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14 Senate Amendment (with title amendment)
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18 Section 11. Paragraph (e) is added to subsection (2)
19 of section 570.07, Florida Statutes, and subsection (6) of
20 that section is amended, to read:
21 570.07 Department of Agriculture and Consumer
22 Services; functions, powers, and duties.--The department shall
23 have and exercise the following functions, powers, and duties:
24 (2) To perform all regulatory and inspection services
25 relating to agriculture except agricultural education,
26 demonstration, research, and those regulatory functions
27 assigned by law to other state agencies. In doing this, the
28 department may:
29 (e) Except as expressly prohibited by law, use any of
30 the trained personnel in the various divisions of the
31 department in performing the regulatory and inspection
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1 services relating to agriculture.
2 (6) To foster and encourage the standardizing,
3 grading, inspection, labeling, handling, storage, and
4 marketing of agricultural products; to enhance the food safety
5 of tomatoes and, after investigation and public hearings, to
6 cooperate with the United States Department of Agriculture, to
7 establish and promulgate standard grades and other standard
8 classifications of and for agricultural products; and to
9 establish and adopt requirements for enhancing food safety, in
10 cooperation with appropriate agencies.
11 Section 12. Present paragraph (e) of subsection (2) of
12 section 570.48, Florida Statutes, is redesignated as paragraph
13 (f), and a new paragraph (e) is added to that subsection, to
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15 570.48 Division of Fruit and Vegetables; powers and
16 duties; records.--The duties of the Division of Fruit and
17 Vegetables include, but are not limited to:
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19 (e) Performing tomato food safety inspections on
20 tomato farms, in tomato greenhouses, and in tomato
21 packinghouses and repackers.
22 Section 13. Subsections (1) and (2) of section
23 570.481, Florida Statutes, are amended to read:
24 570.481 Fruit and vegetable inspection fees;
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26 (1)(a) Each person receiving inspection services
27 pursuant to s. 570.48 shall pay to the department an
28 inspection fee. This fee shall cover the cost of providing
29 the inspection service and shall be set annually by the
30 department by rule.
31 (b) All fees collected by the department to cover the
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1 cost of providing the inspection service for farms or
2 greenhouses growing tomatoes or for tomato packinghouses shall
3 be deposited into the General Inspection Trust Fund and shall
4 be used for tomato-related inspections, education, and
5 research.
6 (2) All fees collected by the department under this
7 section shall be deposited into the Citrus Inspection Trust
8 Fund, except that fees collected pursuant to paragraph (1)(b)
9 and s. 570.48(4) shall be deposited in the General Inspection
10 Trust Fund.
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16 And the title is amended as follows:
17 On page 2, line 15, after the semicolon,
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20 amending s. 570.07, F.S.; authorizing personnel
21 within the various divisions of the department
22 to perform regulatory and inspection services
23 relating to agriculture; requiring that the
24 department adopt requirements for enhancing
25 food safety; amending s. 570.48, F.S.;
26 authorizing the Division of Fruit and
27 Vegetables to perform food safety inspections
28 with respect to tomatoes; amending s. 570.481,
29 F.S.; requiring that fees collected by the
30 department to cover the costs of tomato-related
31 inspections be deposited into the General
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