(1) The California Meat and Poultry Supplemental Inspection Act authorizes the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to adopt, by regulation, standards and requirements relating to inspection, sanitation, facilities, equipment, reinspection, preparation, processing, buying, selling, and transporting, among other acts, of livestock and poultry. The act requires each person to be licensed prior to operating a meat processing establishment or a custom livestock slaughterhouse. The act does not apply in specified circumstances, including to a mobile slaughter operator who provides services to an owner of livestock, subject to specified conditions, including the condition that the person who raised the livestock and the mobile slaughter operator maintain records, as provided. The act defines livestock to include any cattle, sheep, swine, goat, and, in certain circumstances, fallow deer. A violation of the act is a misdemeanor.
California AB 1801 (20192020) — Cattle: inspections.
(1) The California Meat and Poultry Supplemental Inspection Act authorizes the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to adopt, by regulation, standards and requirements relating to inspection, sanitation, facilities, equipment, reinspection, preparation, processing, buying, selling, and transporting, among other acts, of livestock and poultry. The act requires each person to be licensed prior to operating a meat processing establishment or a custom livestock slaughterhouse. The act does not apply in specified circumstances, including to a mobile slaughter operator who provides services to an owner of livestock, subject to specified conditions, including the condition that the person who raised the livestock and the mobile slaughter operator maintain records, as provided. The act defines livestock to include any cattle, sheep, swine, goat, and, in certain circumstances, fallow deer. A violation of the act is a misdemeanor.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
AB 1801 AGRI. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By EGGMAN — 77–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Committee on Agriculture — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2019-02-27 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2019-02-28 From printer. May be heard in committee March 30.
2019-03-21 Referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
2019-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2019-04-24 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
2019-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 1.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2019-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 2. Page 1912.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
2019-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2019-06-06 Referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
2019-06-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on AGRI. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
2019-07-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2019-08-12 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2019-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2019-08-19 Ordered to special consent calendar.
2019-08-22 Ordered to third reading.
2019-08-27 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
2019-08-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2019-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2459.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
2019-09-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
2019-09-05 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3030.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2019-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
2019-09-20 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2019-09-20 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 324, Statutes of 2019.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/74a0d469-9ba4-4a72-b63e-010669e8b007. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).