republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-419.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Food and agriculture."
description: "(1) Existing law regulates rendering, which is defined as the recycling, processing, and conversion of, among other things, inedible kitchen grease. Existing law requires renderers and collection centers to be licensed and to pay a specified license fee. Existing law, operative until July 1, 2020, authorizes the Department of Food and Agriculture to charge each licensed renderer and collection center an additional fee, up to a specified maximum amount per year for each licensed rendering plant or collection center, to cover the reasonable costs of administering provisions regulating renderers, collection centers, and transporters of inedible kitchen grease. Existing law requires fees and penalties collected pursuant to these provisions to be deposited into the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund (fund) and continuously appropriates the collected funds for the purposes described above."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 419"
citation: "California AB 419 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Food and agriculture."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Agriculture"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-02-07"
last_action: "2019-09-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cd9ecedb-98a1-4d10-8b19-ba9fb82015d7"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB419"
source_hash: "1898af2dddf2196d234b50992936b0efec081bc6dda75fe1c36082fba7e707f6"
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 419 (20192020) — Food and agriculture.

(1) Existing law regulates rendering, which is defined as the recycling, processing, and conversion of, among other things, inedible kitchen grease. Existing law requires renderers and collection centers to be licensed and to pay a specified license fee. Existing law, operative until July 1, 2020, authorizes the Department of Food and Agriculture to charge each licensed renderer and collection center an additional fee, up to a specified maximum amount per year for each licensed rendering plant or collection center, to cover the reasonable costs of administering provisions regulating renderers, collection centers, and transporters of inedible kitchen grease. Existing law requires fees and penalties collected pursuant to these provisions to be deposited into the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund (fund) and continuously appropriates the collected funds for the purposes described above.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/07/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB419&version=20190AB41999INT)
2. **06/10/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB419&version=20190AB41998AMD)
3. **09/06/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB419&version=20190AB41996CHP)
4. **AB419** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB419)
5. **08/27/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB419&version=20190AB41997ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 419 AGRI. Assembly Third Reading By EGGMAN — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 419 AGRI. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By EGGMAN — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent AB419 AGRI. — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Agriculture — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-07** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2019-02-08** From printer. May be heard in committee March 10.
- **2019-02-15** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-13** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2019-03-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-10** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1804.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-29** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-10** 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. (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** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2244.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-08-22** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-08-26** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2834.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-09-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-09-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 261, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cd9ecedb-98a1-4d10-8b19-ba9fb82015d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).