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BUSINESS JOURNAL
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VOLUME 7 ■ ISSUE 1
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JANUARY 2022
ON THE BOOKS
IN PROFILE
Caribbean flavor fusion on the menu at Manteca’s Mamas and the Tapas.
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NEWS
Stanislaus County Farm Bureau’s video series wins state award.
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With the new year, Proposition 12 requires that egg-laying hens in California must be cage-free.
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Hen regulations, to-go cocktails among new laws in 2022 BY ANGELINA MARTIN
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s the world said goodbye — and good riddance — to 2021 and rang in 2022, hundreds of new laws went into effect in California. From to-go cocktails to gender neutral toy aisles, there are plenty of regulations for residents of The Golden State to remember along with their resolutions in the New Year. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed 770 new California laws and vetoed 66 in 2021, providing his stamp of approval for 92% of the 836 proposals state lawmakers sent to his desk this year. “In a time when the state and country are more divided than ever, this legislative session reminds us what we can accomplish together. I am thankful for our partners in the state Legislature who furthered our efforts to tackle the state’s most persistent
challenges – together, we took action to address those challenges head-on, implementing historic legislation and the California Comeback Plan to hit fast forward on our state’s recovery,” said Governor Newsom in October after signing the final bills of the 2020-2021 legislative session. “What we’re doing here in California is unprecedented in both nature and scale. We will come back from this pandemic stronger than ever before.” While Newsom vetoed a few bills, like decriminalizing jaywalking and allowing bicyclists to roll through stop signs, there are several new traffic laws which went into effect Jan. 1, 2022. Assembly Bill 3 created a new law which defines a “sideshow” in California as an “event in which two or more persons block or impede traffic on a highway for the purpose of performing motor vehicle stunts, motor vehicle speed
contests, motor vehicle exhibitions of speed or reckless driving for spectators.” There will also be penalties for those who participate in sideshows, with courts able to suspend licenses between 90 days and six months beginning July 1, 2025. Locals who enjoy horseback riding will also soon be subject to new safety regulations. AB 974 requires anyone under 18 years old who rides horses, mules or donkeys on a paved highway to wear a helmet as well as reflective gear or a lamp when riding after dark. Fines for first time violators are $25 per infraction, though those riding in parades or festivals are exempt. Those producing eggs and raising pigs will be impacted by Proposition 12, the latter part of which went into effect in January 2022. Known as the “Bacon” law, Prop 12 was first passed in 2018
and in January 2020 required that egg-laying hens and calves intended to be sold as veal have adequate space of 144 square inches and 43 square feet, respectively. The second part of the law will go into effect with the new year, requiring that egg-laying hens must be cage-free and breeding pigs must be allotted 24 square feet per pig. California accounts for about 15% of the US pork market, the National Pork Producers Council said in a September news release, and the organization is asking the Supreme Court to determine Prop 12’s constitutionality. “We’re asking the Supreme Court to consider the constitutionality of one state imposing regulations that reach far outside its borders and stifle interstate and international commerce,”
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