---
type: "Bill"
title: "Agricultural industry."
description: "Agricultural industry."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20072008"
identifier: "AB 771"
citation: "California AB 771 (20072008)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agricultural industry."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["De Leon"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 33
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2007-02-22"
last_action: "2007-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/524e732d-4752-4ee6-bc0d-23c97d124fcc"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB771"
source_hash: "0446df5f0997e16d51cc879e85f5e1ea9566a5436abc42ac62edc2882862a1f8"
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 771 (20072008) — Agricultural industry.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/07 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB771&version=20070AB77199INT)
2. **03/29/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB771&version=20070AB77198AMD)
3. **04/11/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB771&version=20070AB77197AMD)
4. **05/01/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB771&version=20070AB77196AMD)
5. **06/13/07 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB771&version=20070AB77195AMD)
6. **06/28/07 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB771&version=20070AB77194AMD)
7. **07/12/07 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB771&version=20070AB77193AMD)
8. **09/06/07 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB771&version=20070AB77192AMD)
9. **10/08/07 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB771&version=20070AB77190CHP)
10. **AB771** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB771)
11. **09/20/07 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB771&version=20070AB77191ENR)

## Votes

- AB 771 DE LEON Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Senate amendments be concurred in. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB771 De Leon By Ashburn — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 771 De Leon Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- De Leon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-02-22** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2007-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2007-03-29** Referred to Standing Committee on Agriculture. `referral-committee`
- **2007-03-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Agriculture Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2007-04-09** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Agriculture. `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-11** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Agriculture Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2007-04-12** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Agriculture. `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-30** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 25). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2007-05-01** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage`
- **2007-05-02** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-17** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 16). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-05-21** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-05-24** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1627.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-05-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2007-06-07** Referred to Standing Committee on Agriculture. `referral-committee`
- **2007-06-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Agriculture. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-introduction, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2007-06-20** In committee: Hearing for testimony only.
- **2007-06-20** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2007-06-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Agriculture. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-introduction, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2007-07-11** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) . `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2007-07-12** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2007-08-20** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2007-08-21** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-09-06** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-1, reading-3, amendment-passage`
- **2007-09-10** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 11. Page 2540.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-09-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2007-09-11** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Agriculture pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2007-09-11** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice waived. (Page 3291.)
- **2007-09-11** From committee: With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (September 11). `committee-passage`
- **2007-09-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 65. Noes 9. Page 3406.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2007-09-28** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:45 p.m.
- **2007-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2007-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 324, Statutes of 2007.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/524e732d-4752-4ee6-bc0d-23c97d124fcc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).