---
type: "Bill"
title: "Citrus disease prevention."
description: "Existing law creates the Citrus Disease Management Account in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund, consisting of money from federal, industry, and other non-General Fund sources, to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature for the purpose of combating citrus specific pests, diseases, and their vectors."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "SB 243"
citation: "California SB 243 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Citrus disease prevention."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Galgiani"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 27
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-02-06"
last_action: "2017-05-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/acee16d4-bda1-4a99-ad7c-d2823b28501f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB243"
source_hash: "d84cff3d1e2bff0660f7eb6dd7b3e3ec0be121e16c538dc1c5be3a21327d3655"
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 SB 243 (20172018) — Citrus disease prevention.

Existing law creates the Citrus Disease Management Account in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund, consisting of money from federal, industry, and other non-General Fund sources, to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature for the purpose of combating citrus specific pests, diseases, and their vectors.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/06/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB243&version=20170SB24399INT)
2. **05/26/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB243&version=20170SB24397CHP)
3. **SB243** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB243)
4. **05/23/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB243&version=20170SB24398ENR)

## Votes

- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 243 Galgiani Senate Third Reading By ARAMBULA — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **4–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Galgiani — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — principal coauthor (person)
- Caballero — coauthor (person)
- Flora — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Gray — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — principal coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — principal coauthor (person)
- Salas — coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-06** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-07** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 9.
- **2017-02-16** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-08** Set for hearing March 21.
- **2017-03-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 428.) . Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-24** Set for hearing April 3.
- **2017-04-03** April 3 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2017-04-05** Set for hearing April 17.
- **2017-04-17** April 17 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2017-05-02** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2017-05-02** Ordered to second reading.
- **2017-05-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-04** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 956.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-04** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-11** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-15** Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
- **2017-05-18** Coauthors revised.
- **2017-05-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-05-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-22** Art. IV. Sec. 8(b)(1) of the Constitution dispensed with.
- **2017-05-22** (Ayes 68. Noes 2. Page 1640.)
- **2017-05-22** Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
- **2017-05-22** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1641.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-23** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2017-05-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2017-05-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-05-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 10, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/acee16d4-bda1-4a99-ad7c-d2823b28501f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).