---
type: "Bill"
title: "Farm products: rice seed certification."
description: "Farm products: rice seed certification."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 2622"
citation: "California AB 2622 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Farm products: rice seed certification."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dickerson"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 26
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2000-02-25"
last_action: "2000-09-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/da7e3e78-babc-4c2d-a452-64f65e27a319"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2622"
source_hash: "077f2bf7bef4be8579ad38f2923168870139e31ff4df353122f12e1d43b9f201"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 2622 (19992000) — Farm products: rice seed certification.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/25/00 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2622&version=19990AB262299INT)
2. **05/08/00 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2622&version=19990AB262298AMD)
3. **05/31/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2622&version=19990AB262297AMD)
4. **06/12/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2622&version=19990AB262296AMD)
5. **06/15/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2622&version=19990AB262295AMD)
6. **06/27/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2622&version=19990AB262294AMD)
7. **08/10/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2622&version=19990AB262293AMD)
8. **09/23/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2622&version=19990AB262291CHP)
9. **AB2622** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2622)
10. **08/23/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2622&version=19990AB262292ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2622 DICKERSON CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2622 Dickerson By Costa — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND DAY — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Dickerson — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2000-09-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 579, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-09-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-09-05** Enrolled and to the Governor at 12:30 p.m.
- **2000-08-23** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 72. Noes 3. Page 8123.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2000-08-22** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
- **2000-08-22** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 3. Page 5869.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-08-14** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-08-10** Read second time. To third reading. Read third time, amended. To second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-08-09** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2000-06-27** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-06-26** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 8. Noes 1.). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2000-06-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on AGR. & WAT. RES. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-06-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on AGR. & WAT. RES. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-06-06** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2000-05-31** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on AGR. & WAT. RES. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-05-23** Referred to Com. on AGR. & WAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2000-05-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2000-05-11** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 6328.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-05-09** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-05-08** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-05-04** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (May 3). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2000-04-13** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 12). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2000-03-16** Referred to Standing Committee on Agriculture. `referral-committee`
- **2000-02-28** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2000-02-27** From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
- **2000-02-25** Introduced. To print. `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/da7e3e78-babc-4c2d-a452-64f65e27a319`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).