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Bill	Bees: apiaries: registration: colony relocation: administrative civil penalty.	Existing law, the Apiary Protection Act, provides for the regulation and management of apiaries. Existing law requires that registration of an apiary be filed with the agricultural commissioner of the county in which the apiary is located, or with the Secretary of Food and Agriculture if there is no agricultural commissioner in the county. Existing law requires every person who moves bees into the state or otherwise comes into possession of an apiary that is located within the state after the first day of January to register the number of colonies moved into the state or so acquired within 30 days after coming into possession of the apiary.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2468	California AB 2468 (20172018)	bill	Bees: apiaries: registration: colony relocation: administrative civil penalty.	enacted	Arambula	6	21	6	2018-02-14	2018-09-10	openstates	ocd-bill/861acad0-e4af-47d6-a5f1-fd6ffea9d481	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2468	bfd951329c9a47c6c5b335880b7f008c9ba94b135b4b71ff9a623f03f68d842f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2468 (20172018) — Bees: apiaries: registration: colony relocation: administrative civil penalty.

Existing law, the Apiary Protection Act, provides for the regulation and management of apiaries. Existing law requires that registration of an apiary be filed with the agricultural commissioner of the county in which the apiary is located, or with the Secretary of Food and Agriculture if there is no agricultural commissioner in the county. Existing law requires every person who moves bees into the state or otherwise comes into possession of an apiary that is located within the state after the first day of January to register the number of colonies moved into the state or so acquired within 30 days after coming into possession of the apiary.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/14/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/10/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2468 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/29/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2468 ARAMBULA Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2468 Arambula By Cannella — 38–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 2468 ARAMBULA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Arambula — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2018-03-22 Referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2018-03-23 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
• 2018-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 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 5215.) 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
• 2018-06-14 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. (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 pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2018-07-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 1. Page 5567.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6624.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-09-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 320, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/861acad0-e4af-47d6-a5f1-fd6ffea9d481. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).