--- type: "Bill" title: "Department of Food and Agriculture: farm products: licenses and complaints: fees." description: "(1) Existing law requires a person engaged in the business of processing or manufacturing any farm product to be licensed by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, as specified. Existing law requires a person engaged in the business of buying, receiving on consignment, soliciting for sale on commission, or negotiating the sale of farm products from a licensee or producer for resale to be licensed by the secretary. Existing law requires each applicant for a license to pay to the Department of Food and Agriculture a fee in accordance with a fee schedule for each kind of license that contains specified tiers determined by the annual dollar volume of business based on farm product values." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20232024" identifier: "SB 1270" citation: "California SB 1270 (20232024)" classification: ["bill", "appropriation"] subjects: ["Department of Food and Agriculture", "farm products", "fees", "licenses and complaints"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Grove"] version_count: 6 action_count: 28 vote_count: 8 first_action: "2024-02-15" last_action: "2024-09-25" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42b9995c-4f29-4f05-ae64-53612230a798" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1270" source_hash: "1b34186c8c78dc1abcead2b5526a410aa69009a4032e9d401a01b66d2f710a91" 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 1270 (20232024) — Department of Food and Agriculture: farm products: licenses and complaints: fees. (1) Existing law requires a person engaged in the business of processing or manufacturing any farm product to be licensed by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, as specified. Existing law requires a person engaged in the business of buying, receiving on consignment, soliciting for sale on commission, or negotiating the sale of farm products from a licensee or producer for resale to be licensed by the secretary. Existing law requires each applicant for a license to pay to the Department of Food and Agriculture a fee in accordance with a fee schedule for each kind of license that contains specified tiers determined by the annual dollar volume of business based on farm product values. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/15/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1270&version=20230SB127099INT) 2. **03/18/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1270&version=20230SB127098AMD) 3. **08/22/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1270&version=20230SB127097AMD) 4. **09/25/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1270&version=20230SB127095CHP) 5. **SB1270** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1270) 6. **08/30/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1270&version=20230SB127096ENR) ## Votes - Special Consent — **39–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass. — **13–0** (pass) · lower - 3rd Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper - SB 1270 Grove Senate Third Reading By Alanis — **76–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **3–0** (pass) · upper ## Sponsors - Grove — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2024-02-15** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1` - **2024-02-16** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17. - **2024-02-29** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee` - **2024-03-18** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee` - **2024-04-03** Re-referred to Coms. on AGRI and JUD. `referral-committee` - **2024-04-04** Set for hearing April 16. - **2024-04-09** Set for hearing April 23 in JUD. pending receipt. - **2024-04-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 3. Noes 0. Page 3629.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2024-04-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3726.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2024-04-26** Set for hearing May 6. - **2024-05-06** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3849.) (May 6). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-05-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2024-05-16** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3919.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2024-05-16** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1` - **2024-06-03** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee` - **2024-06-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2024-08-07** August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file. - **2024-08-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 15). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-08-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2024-08-22** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2024-08-22** Ordered to third reading. - **2024-08-26** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6533.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2024-08-26** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending. - **2024-08-27** Ordered to special consent calendar. - **2024-08-28** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5615.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2024-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m. - **2024-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2024-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 603, Statutes of 2024. `became-law` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/42b9995c-4f29-4f05-ae64-53612230a798`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).