republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-2240.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Agriculture: processors of farm products: dealers: licensing: fees."
description: "Existing law requires processors and cash buying processors of farm products to be licensed and to pay to the Department of Food and Agriculture an annual license application fee in accordance with a specified schedule determined by the annual dollar volume of business based on farm product volumes. The department is required to reevaluate that fee structure based on operating costs in fiscal years 1998–99 and 1999–2000 and to submit a report, with specified information, to the Legislature within 60 days subsequent to June 30, 2000."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 2240"
citation: "California AB 2240 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agriculture: processors of farm products: dealers: licensing: fees."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ma"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2010-02-18"
last_action: "2010-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a3f90ec2-fdfd-4a0b-840f-a1240e7ba666"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2240"
source_hash: "ab99810240668d645657f0c29a5daaf0f69e4c47989840965f6e011182f2df76"
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 2240 (20092010) — Agriculture: processors of farm products: dealers: licensing: fees.

Existing law requires processors and cash buying processors of farm products to be licensed and to pay to the Department of Food and Agriculture an annual license application fee in accordance with a specified schedule determined by the annual dollar volume of business based on farm product volumes. The department is required to reevaluate that fee structure based on operating costs in fiscal years 1998–99 and 1999–2000 and to submit a report, with specified information, to the Legislature within 60 days subsequent to June 30, 2000.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2240&version=20090AB224099INT)
2. **04/08/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2240&version=20090AB224098AMD)
3. **05/03/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2240&version=20090AB224097AMD)
4. **06/21/10 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2240&version=20090AB224096AMD)
5. **09/27/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2240&version=20090AB224094CHP)
6. **AB2240** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2240)
7. **08/19/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2240&version=20090AB224095ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2240 MA Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2240 Ma By Emmerson — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2240 MA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ma — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2010-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2010-03-11** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2010-03-24** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2010-04-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-04-12** Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-15** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (April 28). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-05-03** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-05-04** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-05-06** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 11. Page 5034.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-05-06** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-05-20** Referred to Com. on F. & A. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-17** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (June 15). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-06-21** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2010-08-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (August 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-08-04** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-11** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 6. Page 4460.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 13 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2010-08-16** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 65. Noes 7. Page 6262.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2010-08-26** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2010-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 382, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a3f90ec2-fdfd-4a0b-840f-a1240e7ba666`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).