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Bill	Food and agriculture: marketing advisory and promotional boards, councils, and commissions.	Existing law establishes the California Avocado Commission within the state government, and requires the commission to establish no fewer than 3 districts and no more than 5 districts within the state, each representing approximately the same percentage of avocado production in California. Existing law requires the commission to consist of a specified number of producers who are not handlers, based on the number of districts the commission establishes, 4 handlers who are elected on a statewide basis, one public member, and the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, and requires there to be 2 alternate handler members. Existing law requires a vacancy of a member position on the commission to be filled by the alternate member. Existing law authorizes certain handlers who handle a specified percentage of volume of avocados to appoint one handler member to the commission and the other handlers to nominate and elect the remaining handler members.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1976	California AB 1976 (20152016)	bill	Food and agriculture: marketing advisory and promotional boards councils and commissions.	enacted	Irwin	7	25	7	2016-02-16	2016-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/97785ab9-b494-4b88-8172-eae7a2240a39	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1976	b04f4379f34337f53f8c915cacb189b4a2c6d3a5f218beca810f16effcda5906	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1976 (20152016) — Food and agriculture: marketing advisory and promotional boards, councils, and commissions.

Existing law establishes the California Avocado Commission within the state government, and requires the commission to establish no fewer than 3 districts and no more than 5 districts within the state, each representing approximately the same percentage of avocado production in California. Existing law requires the commission to consist of a specified number of producers who are not handlers, based on the number of districts the commission establishes, 4 handlers who are elected on a statewide basis, one public member, and the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, and requires there to be 2 alternate handler members. Existing law requires a vacancy of a member position on the commission to be filled by the alternate member. Existing law authorizes certain handlers who handle a specified percentage of volume of avocados to appoint one handler member to the commission and the other handlers to nominate and elect the remaining handler members.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/13/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/22/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/19/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/22/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1976 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/02/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1976 Irwin By Jackson — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1976 IRWIN Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1976 IRWIN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Irwin — primary (person)
• Williams — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2016-02-25 Referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2016-03-31 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-06 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 6). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-07 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4361.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-14 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-04-28 Referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2016-06-13 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: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 21). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-22 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-01 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2016-08-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5284.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-25 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2016-08-31 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage
• 2016-08-31 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 6544.)
• 2016-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6549.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2016-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 451, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/97785ab9-b494-4b88-8172-eae7a2240a39. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).