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Bill	Commercial feed: violations: administrative penalty.	Existing law regulates the manufacture, distribution, and labeling of commercial feed, and requires the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to enforce those provisions and the regulations adopted pursuant to those provisions. Existing law provides that generally a violation of a provision relating to commercial feed, or the regulations adopted by the Department of Food and Agriculture related to commercial feed, is a misdemeanor. Existing law provides that the sale or distribution of commercial feed without a label, the sale or distribution of commercial feed that is deemed to bear or contain a poisonous, deleterious, or nonnutritive substance in amounts that are specified as being unsafe, or the manufacture or distribution of commercial feed without a valid license, are punishable as infractions, except as specified. Under existing law, unless a different penalty is expressly provided, a violation of any provision of the Food and Agricultural Code is a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 668	California SB 668 (20172018)	bill appropriation	Commercial feed: violations: administrative penalty.	enacted	McGuire	8	32	2	2017-02-17	2018-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/44b30495-3f7e-43ec-aab2-2a0c1af2485a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB668	f895563d83145516a6c07835acf7dac16b5646655211000ab9adf60f372761e8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 668 (20172018) — Commercial feed: violations: administrative penalty.

Existing law regulates the manufacture, distribution, and labeling of commercial feed, and requires the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to enforce those provisions and the regulations adopted pursuant to those provisions. Existing law provides that generally a violation of a provision relating to commercial feed, or the regulations adopted by the Department of Food and Agriculture related to commercial feed, is a misdemeanor. Existing law provides that the sale or distribution of commercial feed without a label, the sale or distribution of commercial feed that is deemed to bear or contain a poisonous, deleterious, or nonnutritive substance in amounts that are specified as being unsafe, or the manufacture or distribution of commercial feed without a valid license, are punishable as infractions, except as specified. Under existing law, unless a different penalty is expressly provided, a violation of any provision of the Food and Agricultural Code is a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/20/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/02/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/11/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/23/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/22/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB668 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/06/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• That the Assembly amendments be concurred in — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB668 McGuire Concurrence — 33–4 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• McGuire — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2017-02-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
• 2017-03-09 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2017-04-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-04-26 Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2017-05-02 Set for hearing May 10.
• 2017-05-02 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1020.) (May 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-05-16 Set for hearing May 22.
• 2017-05-22 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1224.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-26 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-06-05 Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2018-06-11 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2018-06-11 June 11 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2018-06-14 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2018-06-18 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on AGRI. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-08-08 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-08-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-23 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-23 Ordered to third reading.
• 2018-08-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 6958.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-30 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2018-08-31 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). referral-committee
• 2018-08-31 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on AGRI. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d) . (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 6076.) Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-08-31 From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 6197.) committee-passage
• 2018-08-31 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 33. Noes 4. Page 6137.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2018-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 683, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/44b30495-3f7e-43ec-aab2-2a0c1af2485a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).