20250AB__025896CHP INTRODUCED 2025-01-16 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2025-04-30 PASSED_ASSEMBLY 2025-06-02 PASSED_SENATE 2025-09-09 ENROLLED 2025-09-11 CHAPTERED 2025-10-13 APPROVED 2025-10-13 FILED 2025-10-13 2025 AB CHP CHP 0 Introduced by Assembly Member Connolly (Principal coauthor: Assembly Member Hadwick) LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Connolly PRINCIPAL_COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Hadwick

An act to amend

Section of the Food and Agricultural Code, relating to fairs. fairs Fairs: allocation of revenues: gross receipts for sales and use tax. Existing law requires a tax return filed with the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA) that reports gross receipts for sales and use tax purposes to segregate the gross receipts of the seller and the sales price of the property on a line or a separate form when the place of sale in this state or for use in this state is on or within the real property of a fair, as defined, or any real property of a fair that is leased to another party.

Existing law requires, on or before November of each year, the CDTFA to report to the Department of Finance the amount of the total gross receipts segregated on these tax returns for the prior fiscal year, and that 3 of 1% of the total gross receipts be included in the next annual Governor’s Budget for use by the Department of Food and Agriculture for allocation to fairs and that those funds be transferred by the Controller to the Fair and Exposition Fund, which is continuously appropriated, as prescribed.

This bill would increase the amount of the total gross receipts required to be included in the next annual Governor’s Budget for use by the Department of Food and Agriculture and transferred to the Fair and Exposition Fund, as specified, from 3 of 1% to 2%. MAJORITY NO YES NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section of the Food and Agricultural Code is amended to read: 3203. (

a) Notwithstanding any other law, a return filed with the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA) to report gross receipts for sales and use tax purposes shall segregate the gross receipts of the seller and the sales price of the property on a line or a separate form as prescribed by the CDTFA when the place of sale in this state or for use in this state is on or within the real property of a fair or any real property of a fair that is leased to another party. (

b) For purposes of this section, “fair” means a fair as defined in

Section 3101, 3102, 3103, or 3104. (

c) The CDTFA shall add a line to a current return form or develop a separate form for purposes of this section. (d)

(1) The CDTFA shall report the amount of the total gross receipts segregated on the returns filed for the prior fiscal year pursuant to subdivision (

a) to the Department of Finance on or before November of each year.

(2) The total gross receipts shall be subject to review by the CDTFA for errors. The review may be a review of a sample of returns. The CDTFA shall note any errors identified in the review and the approximate impact of those errors on the total gross receipts in its report to the Department of Finance to allow an adjusted total gross receipt amount to be determined. (

e) An amount equal to percent of the total amount of gross receipts, or adjusted gross receipts, for the prior fiscal year reported to the Department of Finance by the CDTFA as specified in subdivision (

d) shall be included in the next annual Governor’s Budget for the Department of Food and Agriculture for allocation to fairs pursuant to

Section 3204. No later than days after the enactment of the annual Budget Act, the amount appropriated by the Legislature to the Department of Food and Agriculture pursuant to this

section shall be transferred by the Controller to the Fair and Exposition Fund in the State Treasury and shall be continuously appropriated and available to be allocated pursuant to

Section 3204. (

f) The CDTFA shall be paid the actual cost for administering this

section from the funds appropriated pursuant to subdivision (

e) before any allocation is made to fairs in accordance with

Section 3204. (g)

(1) Any revenues deposited into the Fair and Exposition Fund pursuant to this

section shall only be allocated to a fair if nonmanagement employees at that fair, or nonmanagement employees at any real property of that fair that is leased to another party, are provided the following working conditions: (

A) The employee receives a meal period of not less than minutes for a work period of more than five hours per day, unless the work period per day of the employee is less than six hours and the meal period is waived by mutual consent of both the employer and the employee. (

B) The employee receives a second meal period of not less than minutes for a work period of more than hours per day, unless the work period per day of the employee is less than hours, the second meal period is waived by mutual consent of both the employer and the employee, and the first meal period was not waived. (

C) Any work in excess of hours in one workday, any work in excess of hours in any one workweek, and the first hours worked on the seventh day of work in any one workweek is compensated at the rate of no less than one and one-half times the regular rate of pay for an employee. (

D) Any work in excess of hours in one day is compensated at the rate of no less than twice the regular rate of pay for an employee. (

E) Any work in excess of eight hours on any seventh day of a workweek is compensated at the rate of no less than twice the regular rate of pay for an employee.

(2) This subdivision does not apply to full-time carnival ride operators employed by a traveling carnival.

(3) For purposes of this subdivision, “employee” does not include an employee covered by a valid collective bargaining agreement if that agreement expressly provides for all of the following: (

A) Wages, hours of work, and working conditions of the employees. (

B) Meal periods for the employees, including final and binding arbitration of disputes concerning application of its meal period provisions. (

C) Premium wage rates for all overtime hours worked, and a regular hourly rate of pay of not less than percent more than the state minimum wage.