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Bill	Medical cannabis: state cultivator license types: specialty cottage type.	The Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act provides for the licensure and regulation of commercial activities relating to medical cannabis and establishes various types of state cultivator licenses to be issued to qualified applicants by the Department of Food and Agriculture.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2516	California AB 2516 (20152016)	bill	Medical cannabis: state cultivator license types: specialty cottage type.	enacted	Wood	7	26	9	2016-02-19	2016-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/ff5e8a87-fcae-4773-9d0a-ae5c99d8b3a9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2516	ab1f1143704c119874a9c010e4d7dbf2d90e7dd1ac83ed9fd097ba055e53df58	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2516 (20152016) — Medical cannabis: state cultivator license types: specialty cottage type.

The Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act provides for the licensure and regulation of commercial activities relating to medical cannabis and establishes various types of state cultivator licenses to be issued to qualified applicants by the Department of Food and Agriculture.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/06/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/22/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/01/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/29/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2516 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/25/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Business and Professions] — 7–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 15–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 2516 WOOD Assembly Third Reading — 63–9 (pass) · lower
• 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] — 13–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 2516 WOOD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 62–9 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2516 Wood By Hertzberg — 29–9 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wood — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2016-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2016-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2016-03-17 Referred to Coms. on AGRI. and B. & P. referral-committee
• 2016-04-06 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
• 2016-04-07 Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2016-04-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on B. & P. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 1.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-04 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-05-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 1.) (May 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 9. Page 5125.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2016-06-21 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 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 5. Noes 2.) (August 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 5113.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-24 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 9. Page 6198.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2016-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 827, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ff5e8a87-fcae-4773-9d0a-ae5c99d8b3a9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).