republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-958.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Agriculture: California Avocado Commission: California Salmon Council."
description: "(1) Existing law establishes the California Avocado Commission, which is charged with, among other duties, promoting the sale of avocados by advertising and other promotional means for the purpose of maintaining and expanding present markets and creating new and larger intrastate, interstate, and foreign markets for avocados. Existing law requires the commission to establish 5 districts within the state, each representing approximately 20% of the avocado production in California, and, beginning in the 2000–01 marketing season, requires those districts to be reapportioned every 5th year in accordance with certain procedures. Under existing law, the commission consists of 10 avocado producers who are not handlers, 2 elected from each of the 5 districts, 4 avocado handlers who are elected on a statewide basis, one public member who is appointed by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, and the secretary who serves as a nonvoting ex officio member. Existing law also provides for an alternate member for each member of the commission, except the secretary, to be elected in the same manner as the member."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 958"
citation: "California AB 958 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Agriculture: California Avocado Commission: California Salmon Council."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Agriculture"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2015-02-26"
last_action: "2015-09-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/213d2f77-1feb-4839-b358-809dbad15dce"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB958"
source_hash: "416474c820d28fbad706786a97f6c4060eba7b015f7bee75417dbfc227a3acd6"
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 958 (20152016) — Agriculture: California Avocado Commission: California Salmon Council.

(1) Existing law establishes the California Avocado Commission, which is charged with, among other duties, promoting the sale of avocados by advertising and other promotional means for the purpose of maintaining and expanding present markets and creating new and larger intrastate, interstate, and foreign markets for avocados. Existing law requires the commission to establish 5 districts within the state, each representing approximately 20% of the avocado production in California, and, beginning in the 2000–01 marketing season, requires those districts to be reapportioned every 5th year in accordance with certain procedures. Under existing law, the commission consists of 10 avocado producers who are not handlers, 2 elected from each of the 5 districts, 4 avocado handlers who are elected on a statewide basis, one public member who is appointed by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, and the secretary who serves as a nonvoting ex officio member. Existing law also provides for an alternate member for each member of the commission, except the secretary, to be elected in the same manner as the member.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/26/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB958&version=20150AB95899INT)
2. **04/22/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB958&version=20150AB95898AMD)
3. **05/04/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB958&version=20150AB95897AMD)
4. **05/18/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB958&version=20150AB95896AMD)
5. **06/29/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB958&version=20150AB95895AMD)
6. **09/21/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB958&version=20150AB95893CHP)
7. **AB958** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB958)
8. **08/26/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB958&version=20150AB95894ENR)

## Votes

- AB 958 AGRI. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By PEREA — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB958 Committee On AGRI. (Galgiani) By Pan — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 958 AGRI. Consent Calendar Second Day — **74–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Agriculture — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-26** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-27** From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
- **2015-03-16** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-22** 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`
- **2015-04-23** Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-04** 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`
- **2015-05-05** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-14** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 13). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-05-18** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-19** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1565.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-06-04** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-29** 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** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-08-17** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2015-08-18** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-08-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2118.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-20** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2015-08-24** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2559.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-01** 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 307, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/213d2f77-1feb-4839-b358-809dbad15dce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).