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Bill	Organic products.	Existing law, the California Organic Products Act of 2003 (the act) , requires the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, county agricultural commissioners, and the Director of the State Department of Public Health to enforce state and federal laws governing the production, labeling, and marketing of organic products, as specified. Existing federal law establishes the National Organic Program which requires operations that produce or handle organic agricultural products to comply with federal organic standards and be certified by a certifying agent, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1826	California AB 1826 (20152016)	bill	Organic products.	enacted	Mark Stone	10	31	8	2016-02-08	2016-09-21	openstates	ocd-bill/8a0358b3-3cf0-44de-9b5e-3143a451c3ae	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1826	d3440c73c716fb43b1cf5afc38d4dbc27b0a2f7cbb2f5ef3eed3f401815bd8ab	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1826 (20152016) — Organic products.

Existing law, the California Organic Products Act of 2003 (the act) , requires the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, county agricultural commissioners, and the Director of the State Department of Public Health to enforce state and federal laws governing the production, labeling, and marketing of organic products, as specified. Existing federal law establishes the National Organic Program which requires operations that produce or handle organic agricultural products to comply with federal organic standards and be certified by a certifying agent, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/08/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/17/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/05/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/21/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/26/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/15/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/30/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/21/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB1826 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/25/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1826 Mark Stone By Monning — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1826 STONE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 1826 STONE Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mark Stone — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-08 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-09 From printer. May be heard in committee March 10.
• 2016-03-17 Referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2016-03-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2016-04-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2016-04-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-04-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 20). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-04-21 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-04-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-27 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-05-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-05-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5023.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2016-06-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-30 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-01 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-17 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5061.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-17 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 19 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-23 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 1. Page 6142.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-09-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 403, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8a0358b3-3cf0-44de-9b5e-3143a451c3ae. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).