republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-224.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Agricultural products: direct marketing: community-supported agriculture."
description: "Existing law encourages the Department of Food and Agriculture to assist producers in organizing certified farmers' markets, field retail stands, farm stands, and other forms of direct marketing by providing technical advice on marketing methods and in complying with the regulations that affect direct marketing programs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 224"
citation: "California AB 224 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agricultural products: direct marketing: community-supported agriculture."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gordon"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 31
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2013-02-04"
last_action: "2013-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a841fca4-7336-492b-9b27-94f129c13d44"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB224"
source_hash: "fa664725b122c6c71af668c91f1e7a157c81afbe561fbcc514b5930e286564b5"
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 224 (20132014) — Agricultural products: direct marketing: community-supported agriculture.

Existing law encourages the Department of Food and Agriculture to assist producers in organizing certified farmers' markets, field retail stands, farm stands, and other forms of direct marketing by providing technical advice on marketing methods and in complying with the regulations that affect direct marketing programs.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/04/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB224&version=20130AB22499INT)
2. **04/19/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB224&version=20130AB22498AMD)
3. **04/25/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB224&version=20130AB22497AMD)
4. **05/07/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB224&version=20130AB22496AMD)
5. **05/24/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB224&version=20130AB22495AMD)
6. **06/26/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB224&version=20130AB22494AMD)
7. **09/03/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB224&version=20130AB22493AMD)
8. **09/28/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB224&version=20130AB22491CHP)
9. **AB224** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB224)
10. **09/16/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB224&version=20130AB22492ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 224 GORDON Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB224 Gordon By Wolk — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 224 GORDON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gordon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-04** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-05** From printer. May be heard in committee March 7.
- **2013-02-15** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-29** Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-06** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-07** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-08** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-15** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-24** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-24** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1736.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-06-13** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on AGRI. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-07-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-08-13** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-08-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-09-03** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2256.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2013-09-10** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 3064.)
- **2013-09-10** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 3064.)
- **2013-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3095.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2013-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 404, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a841fca4-7336-492b-9b27-94f129c13d44`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).