(a) As part of the registration program established pursuant to this division, the department may establish and carry out, by regulation, an agricultural pilot program pursuant to Section 7606 of the federal Agricultural Act of 2014 (7 U.S.C. § 5940) in accordance with the purposes of that section.

(b) This section shall remain operative only until the date on which a state plan for California is approved pursuant to Section 297B of the federal Agricultural Marketing Act of 1946 (added by Section 10113 of the federal Agriculture Improvement Act of 2018 (Public Law 115-334)), and as of January 1 of the following year is repealed.

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(Amended by Stats. 2021, Ch. 485, Sec. 10. (SB 292) Effective January 1, 2022. Conditionally inoperative as prescribed by its own provisions. Repealed January 1 following the inoperative date.)