republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-1351.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "District agricultural associations: authorized activities."
description: "Existing law provides for the establishment of district agricultural associations and authorizes a district agricultural association to engage in various activities, including the lease of its real property to any person or public body for any purpose, subject to specified approvals, as well as the use or management of any of its property jointly or in connection with any lessee or sublessee for any purpose approved by the board of directors of the district agricultural association."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1351"
citation: "California AB 1351 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["District agricultural associations: authorized activities."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Caballero"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2017-02-17"
last_action: "2017-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/08e7dcf5-b875-4498-893e-55b870e1d57d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1351"
source_hash: "b07a01e50b66beedbb3216e7f8acd3e98cedd96a270ab12fbae6323a7215ac81"
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 1351 (20172018) — District agricultural associations: authorized activities.

Existing law provides for the establishment of district agricultural associations and authorizes a district agricultural association to engage in various activities, including the lease of its real property to any person or public body for any purpose, subject to specified approvals, as well as the use or management of any of its property jointly or in connection with any lessee or sublessee for any purpose approved by the board of directors of the district agricultural association.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/17/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1351&version=20170AB135199INT)
2. **03/15/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1351&version=20170AB135198AMD)
3. **07/10/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1351&version=20170AB135197AMD)
4. **08/24/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1351&version=20170AB135196AMD)
5. **10/07/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1351&version=20170AB135194CHP)
6. **AB1351** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1351)
7. **09/07/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1351&version=20170AB135195ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB1351 Caballero By Galgiani — **28–8** (pass) · upper
- AB 1351 CABALLERO Assembly Third Reading — **56–20** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **3–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Caballero — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2017-03-13** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-03-16** Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-06** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 3.) (April 26). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-04-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 20. Page 1471.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-24** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-07-05** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2017-07-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-07-17** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-07-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-08-24** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-08-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 2347.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2017-09-05** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 55. Noes 21. Page 2931.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-09-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2017-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-10-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 559, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/08e7dcf5-b875-4498-893e-55b870e1d57d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).