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Bill	Organic products: county agricultural commissioners: civil penalties.	Existing law authorizes the Secretary of Food and Agriculture or a county agricultural commissioner to levy a civil penalty, as provided, against a person who violates the California Organic Products Act of 2003, or any regulation adopted pursuant to that act, or regulations adopted by the National Organic Program. Existing law provides that a civil penalty levied by a county agricultural commissioner may be recovered in a civil action brought in the name of the county.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20092010	AB 2686	California AB 2686 (20092010)	bill	Organic products: county agricultural commissioners: civil penalties.	enacted	Tom Berryhill	6	21	6	2010-02-19	2010-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/f23368cc-4a11-4423-8d08-e5a03d280c5b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2686	fc7ddfeb23d5faa49fec8c1f76796822a41350c56f536a9b1884bc69152bed87	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2686 (20092010) — Organic products: county agricultural commissioners: civil penalties.

Existing law authorizes the Secretary of Food and Agriculture or a county agricultural commissioner to levy a civil penalty, as provided, against a person who violates the California Organic Products Act of 2003, or any regulation adopted pursuant to that act, or regulations adopted by the National Organic Program. Existing law provides that a civil penalty levied by a county agricultural commissioner may be recovered in a civil action brought in the name of the county.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/10 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/05/10 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/02/10 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/27/10 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2686 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/16/10 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2686 BERRYHILL, T. Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
• AB 2686 BERRYHILL, T. Concurrence in Senate Amendments — pass (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — pass (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar 2nd AB2686 Tom Berryhill — pass (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Tom Berryhill — primary (person)
• Denham — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2010-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2010-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2010-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2010-03-18 Referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2010-04-05 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
• 2010-04-05 Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2010-04-15 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-04-29 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-05-03 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-05-06 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5052.) 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
• 2010-06-15 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 15). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2010-07-15 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8, be amended, and to Consent Calendar. amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2010-08-02 Read second time and amended. Ordered to Consent Calendar. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2010-08-05 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4371.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2010-08-05 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2010-08-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6152.) amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2010-08-25 Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:50 p.m.
• 2010-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2010-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 395, Statutes of 2010.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f23368cc-4a11-4423-8d08-e5a03d280c5b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).