republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-2114.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Livestock inspection."
description: "(1) Existing law, the California Meat and Poultry Supplemental Inspection Act, requires each person to be licensed before operating a meat processing establishment or a custom livestock slaughterhouse and provides for the inspection of those establishments. Existing law exempts from these licensing and inspection requirements certain persons and activities, including owners of livestock who slaughter, on their own premises, livestock of their own raising, as specified, and a mobile slaughter operator who provides services to that owner, where the slaughter occurs on the owner's premises and the meat is thereafter transported for the owner to an establishment for further processing. Existing law requires all fees, charges, and collections collected pursuant to the act to be deposited in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund to be used for the enforcement of the act. Existing law provides that a violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 2114"
citation: "California AB 2114 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Livestock inspection."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bigelow"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 26
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-02-08"
last_action: "2018-08-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/80bd05bf-c405-4c44-9de1-6c048906253d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2114"
source_hash: "e905067667f27d1a40cccf80a2a910f27ac653d9bca53eed9ee0955dde3379bc"
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 2114 (20172018) — Livestock inspection.

(1) Existing law, the California Meat and Poultry Supplemental Inspection Act, requires each person to be licensed before operating a meat processing establishment or a custom livestock slaughterhouse and provides for the inspection of those establishments. Existing law exempts from these licensing and inspection requirements certain persons and activities, including owners of livestock who slaughter, on their own premises, livestock of their own raising, as specified, and a mobile slaughter operator who provides services to that owner, where the slaughter occurs on the owner's premises and the meat is thereafter transported for the owner to an establishment for further processing. Existing law requires all fees, charges, and collections collected pursuant to the act to be deposited in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund to be used for the enforcement of the act. Existing law provides that a violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/08/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2114&version=20170AB211499INT)
2. **03/14/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2114&version=20170AB211498AMD)
3. **04/02/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2114&version=20170AB211497AMD)
4. **06/12/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2114&version=20170AB211496AMD)
5. **08/27/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2114&version=20170AB211494CHP)
6. **AB2114** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2114)
7. **08/10/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2114&version=20170AB211495ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB2114 Bigelow et al. — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2114 BIGELOW Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2114 BIGELOW Consent Calendar Second Day — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bigelow — primary (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-08** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-02-09** From printer. May be heard in committee March 11.
- **2018-02-22** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** 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`
- **2018-03-15** Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-19** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2018-03-21** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2018-04-02** 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`
- **2018-04-03** Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-26** Coauthors revised.
- **2018-04-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-05-09** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-05-10** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5214.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-05-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-05-30** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on AGRI. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-06-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-07-02** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-07-03** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5166.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-07** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2018-08-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6205.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-08-14** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2018-08-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-08-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 211, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/80bd05bf-c405-4c44-9de1-6c048906253d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).