republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-655.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Rendering: inedible kitchen grease: registration fee: additional fees."
description: "(1) Existing law regulates rendering, which is defined as the recycling, processing, and conversion of, among other things, inedible kitchen grease. Existing law, operative until July 1, 2020, authorizes the Department of Food and Agriculture, in addition to the license fee, to charge each licensed renderer and collection center an additional fee to cover the reasonable costs of administering provisions regulating renderers, collection centers, and transporters of inedible kitchen grease, and requires that the additional fees may not exceed $3,000 per year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 655"
citation: "California AB 655 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Rendering: inedible kitchen grease: registration fee: additional fees."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Quirk"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 31
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2015-02-24"
last_action: "2016-09-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0ba8fabb-212d-4114-9317-989cbdee3623"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB655"
source_hash: "0283d5c9114dfa04df0b3ff580b4f7dd840cb792a632c899c80b9ef98c3bdc19"
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 655 (20152016) — Rendering: inedible kitchen grease: registration fee: additional fees.

(1) Existing law regulates rendering, which is defined as the recycling, processing, and conversion of, among other things, inedible kitchen grease. Existing law, operative until July 1, 2020, authorizes the Department of Food and Agriculture, in addition to the license fee, to charge each licensed renderer and collection center an additional fee to cover the reasonable costs of administering provisions regulating renderers, collection centers, and transporters of inedible kitchen grease, and requires that the additional fees may not exceed $3,000 per year.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/24/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB655&version=20150AB65599INT)
2. **04/06/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB655&version=20150AB65598AMD)
3. **06/15/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB655&version=20150AB65596AMD)
4. **07/01/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB655&version=20150AB65597AMD)
5. **08/01/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB655&version=20150AB65595AMD)
6. **09/12/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB655&version=20150AB65593CHP)
7. **AB655** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB655)
8. **08/25/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB655&version=20150AB65594ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB655 Quirk By Wolk — **36–1** (pass) · upper
- AB 655 QUIRK Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **75–4** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 655 QUIRK Assembly Third Reading — **75–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Quirk — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-24** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-25** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2015-03-09** Referred to Coms. on TRANS. and AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-26** Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-06** 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`
- **2015-04-07** Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **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`
- **2015-04-22** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 22). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-04-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 1. Page 1142.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-27** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-07** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-11** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2015-06-24** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2015-07-01** 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`
- **2015-07-07** In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **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 4. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-22** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2016-06-22** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-22** Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-30** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 29). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-01** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-08** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 1. Page 5056.). `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 75. Noes 4. Page 6145.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2016-09-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 286, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0ba8fabb-212d-4114-9317-989cbdee3623`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).