The board shall recommend specific actions to the secretary, including, but not limited to, all of the following:
(a) Conducting research related to broomrape.
(b) Disseminating technical information and progress reports to stakeholders.
(c) Surveying, detecting, analyzing, and treating causes of broomrape.
(d) Funding activities, including, but not limited to, grants that may be required to accomplish the purposes of this chapter.
(e) Establishing an annual assessment rate or schedule of rates that shall be paid equally by producers and handlers.
(f) Establishing an annual budget.
(g) Specifying other commodities produced in California that shall be subject to this chapter, increasing membership on the board to include producers and handlers of those commodities, and establishing an assessment rate consistent with expenditures needed to accomplish the purposes of this chapter.
(h) Adoption of regulations recommended by the board relating to broomrape.
(Added by Stats. 2023, Ch. 651, Sec. 2. (AB 402) Effective January 1, 2024. Inoperative July 1, 2028, pursuant to Section 7440. Repealed as of January 1, 2029, pursuant to Section 7440.)