republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-425.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Milk and other dairy products: Dairy Council of California Law: producer-handlers."
description: "(1) The Dairy Council of California Law (dairy law) , establishes the Dairy Council of California within the state government and prescribes the membership of the council to be appointed by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture as including 12 members that are producers and 12 members that are handlers or producer-handlers, as defined. The dairy law also sets forth various requirements applicable to producers, handlers, and producer-handlers, including the payment of certain assessments on milk and participating in certain referendum procedures."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 425"
citation: "California AB 425 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Milk and other dairy products: Dairy Council of California Law: producer-handlers."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mathis"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-02-04"
last_action: "2021-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/74a219e0-2e06-40a9-9798-547a6a93860f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB425"
source_hash: "039cb5722456b07a8a9c2e779b7fad70eb77d29dd333641159861dc9c2d5faba"
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 425 (20212022) — Milk and other dairy products: Dairy Council of California Law: producer-handlers.

(1) The Dairy Council of California Law (dairy law) , establishes the Dairy Council of California within the state government and prescribes the membership of the council to be appointed by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture as including 12 members that are producers and 12 members that are handlers or producer-handlers, as defined. The dairy law also sets forth various requirements applicable to producers, handlers, and producer-handlers, including the payment of certain assessments on milk and participating in certain referendum procedures.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/04/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB425&version=20210AB42599INT)
2. **09/28/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB425&version=20210AB42597CHP)
3. **AB425** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB425)
4. **09/01/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB425&version=20210AB42598ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 425 Mathis Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar AB425 — **39–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mathis — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-04** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2021-02-05** From printer. May be heard in committee March 7.
- **2021-02-12** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-05-05** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 5). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-06** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-05-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1408.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-05-13** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2021-05-27** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-30** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2021-07-15** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2021-08-16** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-08-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2237.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-08-31** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2021-09-07** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2021-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 371, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/74a219e0-2e06-40a9-9798-547a6a93860f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).