Existing law imposes an annual assessment of 1% on the gross sales of all deciduous pome and stone fruit trees, nut trees, and grapevines, including seeds, seedlings, rootstocks, and topstock, including ornamental varieties of apple, apricot, crabapple, cherry, nectarine, peach, pear, and plum, produced and sold within the state or produced within and shipped from the state by any licensed nursery dealer, and provides that for packaged or containerized stock, the assessment shall be levied on the producer's bareroot price of the plants, and specifies the purposes for which the assessment may be used. Existing law provides that the assessment shall be paid into the State Treasury and shall be credited to the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund, a continuously appropriated fund for these purposes.
California SB 707 (20112012) — Agricultural development.
Existing law imposes an annual assessment of 1% on the gross sales of all deciduous pome and stone fruit trees, nut trees, and grapevines, including seeds, seedlings, rootstocks, and topstock, including ornamental varieties of apple, apricot, crabapple, cherry, nectarine, peach, pear, and plum, produced and sold within the state or produced within and shipped from the state by any licensed nursery dealer, and provides that for packaged or containerized stock, the assessment shall be levied on the producer's bareroot price of the plants, and specifies the purposes for which the assessment may be used. Existing law provides that the assessment shall be paid into the State Treasury and shall be credited to the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund, a continuously appropriated fund for these purposes.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Unfinished Business SB707 Cannella Concurrence — 35–3 (pass) · upper
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
SB 707 Cannella Senate Third Reading By GALGIANI — 69–8 (pass) · lower
3rd Reading — 33–2 (pass) · upper
Do pass. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Cannella — primary (person)
Wolk — author (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2011-02-18 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2011-02-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
2011-03-03 Referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
2011-04-08 Set for hearing May 3.
2011-05-03 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 846.) (May 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2011-05-04 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
2011-05-06 Set for hearing May 16.
2011-05-17 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 1014.) (May 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2011-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2011-05-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 2. Page 1179.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
2011-06-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2011-06-09 Referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
2011-06-21 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
2011-06-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2011-08-18 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 17). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2011-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2011-08-25 From consent calendar.
2011-08-25 Ordered to third reading.
2011-08-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 69. Noes 8. Page 2640.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
2011-08-29 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2011-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 35. Noes 3. Page 2162.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2011-09-07 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
2011-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2011-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 343, Statutes of 2011.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7fe0a5f3-a75c-4464-9e4d-006180e1d4d2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).