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Bill	Fertilizer: reduction of use.	Existing law requires a person who manufactures or distributes fertilizing materials to obtain a license from the Secretary of Food and Agriculture. Under existing law, a licensee whose name appears on the label who sells or distributes bulk fertilizing materials is required to pay specified fees for each dollar of sales, including an amount not to exceed $0.001 per dollar of sales for all sales of fertilizing materials, to provide funding for research and education regarding the use and handling of fertilizing material, including, but not limited to, any environmental effects.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 2174	California AB 2174 (20112012)	bill	Fertilizer: reduction of use.	enacted	Alejo	7	25	7	2012-02-23	2012-08-27	openstates	ocd-bill/7946a397-d84e-4926-a097-ef2f3419fd28	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2174	fd3053a3bc7991822cd1961c6a894175b56198f80d1177dcdb25f60262427f50	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2174 (20112012) — Fertilizer: reduction of use.

Existing law requires a person who manufactures or distributes fertilizing materials to obtain a license from the Secretary of Food and Agriculture. Under existing law, a licensee whose name appears on the label who sells or distributes bulk fertilizing materials is required to pay specified fees for each dollar of sales, including an amount not to exceed $0.001 per dollar of sales for all sales of fertilizing materials, to provide funding for research and education regarding the use and handling of fertilizing material, including, but not limited to, any environmental effects.

Version chain

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

1. 02/23/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/03/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/14/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/14/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/27/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2174 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/13/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent #15 — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2174 ALEJO Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Environmental Quality. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2174 ALEJO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Alejo — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-23 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2012-03-08 Referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2012-05-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-07 Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2012-05-10 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-14 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-15 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-05-25 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2012-05-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 25). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5056.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-06-07 Referred to Coms. on AGRI. and E.Q. referral-committee
• 2012-06-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on AGRI. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-07-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-07-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-07-05 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2012-07-06 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4322.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-06 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 5839.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:10 p.m.
• 2012-08-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-08-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 198, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7946a397-d84e-4926-a097-ef2f3419fd28. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).