(a) Except as provided in Section 2282.5, and to the extent funds are appropriated in the annual Budget Act, the Secretary of Food and Agriculture or the Director of Pesticide Regulation may allocate annually to each county an amount determined by the secretary or the director not to exceed one-third of the amount expended by the county during the previous fiscal year for the programs of joint responsibility under the jurisdiction of the secretary or director, as applicable. The allocations shall be made from funds appropriated to the secretary or the director for purposes of carrying out activities of joint responsibility with the commissioners at the local levels.

(b) The annual report to the Legislature required by Section 2281 shall include findings for each of the following joint programs, including the amounts allocated to, and expended by, the counties in the previous fiscal year and the proposed amount to be allocated by the secretary for each program for the ensuing budget year:

(1) Pest detection.

(2) Pest eradication.

(3) Pest management control.

(4) Pest exclusion.

(5) Seed inspection.

(6) Nursery inspection.

(7) Fruit and vegetable quality control.

(8) Egg quality control.

(9) Apiary inspection.

(10) Crop statistics.

The report shall also specify the programs that have been augmented with state funds each year since 1980 because of new legislative mandates, or because of pest infestations or outbreaks occurring since that date, and the annual amounts of those augmentations.

(Amended by Stats. 2000, Ch. 573, Sec. 2. Effective September 23, 2000.)