republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-264.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Farm products: processors: produce dealers: seeds."
description: "(1) Existing law, the California Seed Law, requires the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, by regulation, to adopt, among other things, specified lists of plants and crops that the secretary finds are or may be grown in the state or that the secretary finds are detrimental to agriculture if they occur incidentally in other crops, as prescribed, a list of noxious weed seed that the secretary finds are prohibitive noxious weed seed, and methods and procedures, upon recommendation of the Seed Advisory Board, for the conciliation, mediation, or arbitration of disputes between labelers and any persons concerning conformance with label statements, advertisements, or other disputes regarding the quality or performance of seed."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 264"
citation: "California AB 264 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Farm products: processors: produce dealers: seeds."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dahle"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 28
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2015-02-10"
last_action: "2015-09-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2712acab-d5e4-4ce2-9475-3f55d41b4c98"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB264"
source_hash: "e47ce5a5bad205850fd2e6717c03f7e49e39c1e44daa862989395491a85c410a"
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 264 (20152016) — Farm products: processors: produce dealers: seeds.

(1) Existing law, the California Seed Law, requires the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, by regulation, to adopt, among other things, specified lists of plants and crops that the secretary finds are or may be grown in the state or that the secretary finds are detrimental to agriculture if they occur incidentally in other crops, as prescribed, a list of noxious weed seed that the secretary finds are prohibitive noxious weed seed, and methods and procedures, upon recommendation of the Seed Advisory Board, for the conciliation, mediation, or arbitration of disputes between labelers and any persons concerning conformance with label statements, advertisements, or other disputes regarding the quality or performance of seed.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/10/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB264&version=20150AB26499INT)
2. **04/21/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB264&version=20150AB26498AMD)
3. **06/08/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB264&version=20150AB26497AMD)
4. **07/16/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB264&version=20150AB26496AMD)
5. **09/21/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB264&version=20150AB26494CHP)
6. **AB264** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB264)
7. **09/03/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB264&version=20150AB26495ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **3–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 264 DAHLE Assembly Third Reading — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 264 DAHLE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent #8 AB264 Dahle By Galgiani — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Dahle — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-11** From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
- **2015-02-17** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-23** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2015-04-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-21** 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`
- **2015-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-29** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-30** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-07** From Consent Calendar.
- **2015-05-07** Ordered to third reading.
- **2015-05-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 1433.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-28** Referred to Coms. on AGRI. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-08** 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`
- **2015-06-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 3. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-07-15** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 14). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-07-16** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-08-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-08-26** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2015-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2311.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2015-09-01** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2729.)
- **2015-09-01** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2745.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2015-09-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-09-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 294, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2712acab-d5e4-4ce2-9475-3f55d41b4c98`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).