---
type: "Bill"
title: "Farm products: processors and produce dealers."
description: "Farm products: processors and produce dealers."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 2630"
citation: "California AB 2630 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Farm products: processors and produce dealers."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ashburn"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2000-02-25"
last_action: "2000-09-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fd18ca6f-4a5e-4397-acc8-8e033cbd5fcb"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2630"
source_hash: "0fab832f7156788a1aa11a8b7c2cad33c774cb1847f9cb6306668bbd37229bef"
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 2630 (19992000) — Farm products: processors and produce dealers.

## 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=199920000AB2630&version=19990AB263099INT)
2. **05/08/00 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2630&version=19990AB263098AMD)
3. **08/07/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2630&version=19990AB263097AMD)
4. **09/12/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2630&version=19990AB263095CHP)
5. **AB2630** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2630)
6. **08/24/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2630&version=19990AB263096ENR)

## Votes

- SPEC. CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND DAY CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- SPECIAL CONSENT CALE AB2630 Ashburn By Costa — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- CONSENT CALENDAR SECOND DAY — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ashburn — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2000-09-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 412, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-09-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-09-05** Enrolled and to the Governor at 12:30 p.m.
- **2000-08-24** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 8231.) `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. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar. Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
- **2000-08-22** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5873.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-08-14** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-08-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-06-20** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, 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/fd18ca6f-4a5e-4397-acc8-8e033cbd5fcb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).