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Bill	Public health: food access.	Existing law requires the Department of Food and Agriculture, headed by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, to promote and protect the agricultural industry of the state.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 581	California AB 581 (20112012)	bill	Public health: food access.	enacted	John A. Pérez	7	25	10	2011-02-16	2011-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/b30f76e9-60dd-4827-b084-dbf51c422fa5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB581	5ba831542659d973269e6f2a925b4889df9e3d65fa4cff273b11dada47624575	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 581 (20112012) — Public health: food access.

Existing law requires the Department of Food and Agriculture, headed by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, to promote and protect the agricultural industry of the state.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/27/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/11/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/30/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/06/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB581 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/12/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB581 John A. Pérez By Cannella — 30–7 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 7–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Health. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 581 PÉREZ, J. Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Health to Consent Calendar. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 581 PÉREZ, J. Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 73–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• John A. Pérez — primary (person)
• Achadjian — coauthor (person)
• Alejo — coauthor (person)
• Allen — coauthor (person)
• Alquist — principal coauthor (person)
• Ammiano — coauthor (person)
• Atkins — coauthor (person)
• Beall — coauthor (person)
• Block — coauthor (person)
• Blumenfield — coauthor (person)
• Bonilla — coauthor (person)
• Bradford — coauthor (person)
• Buchanan — coauthor (person)
• Butler — coauthor (person)
• Campos — coauthor (person)
• Carter — coauthor (person)
• Cedillo — coauthor (person)
• Chesbro — coauthor (person)
• Davis — coauthor (person)
• Dickinson — coauthor (person)
• Eng — coauthor (person)
• Fletcher — coauthor (person)
• Fong — coauthor (person)
• Fuentes — coauthor (person)
• Galgiani — principal coauthor (person)
• Gordon — coauthor (person)
• Hall — coauthor (person)
• Hayashi — coauthor (person)
• Hueso — coauthor (person)
• Lara — coauthor (person)
• Ma — coauthor (person)
• Mansoor — coauthor (person)
• Mitchell — principal coauthor (person)
• Monning — coauthor (person)
• Pan — coauthor (person)
• Perea — coauthor (person)
• Portantino — coauthor (person)
• Skinner — coauthor (person)
• Solorio — coauthor (person)
• Swanson — coauthor (person)
• V. Manuel Pérez — coauthor (person)
• Wieckowski — coauthor (person)
• Williams — coauthor (person)
• Yamada — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2011-03-03 Referred to Coms. on AGRI. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2011-04-06 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-04-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 27). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-18 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2011-05-27 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-27 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1733.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-08 Referred to Coms. on AGRI. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2011-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-07 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (July 6). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-11 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-08-15 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2011-08-29 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (August 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 7. Page 2195.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-01 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2011-09-06 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 4. Page 2893.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2011-10-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 505, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b30f76e9-60dd-4827-b084-dbf51c422fa5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).