republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-535.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Olive oil: labeling."
description: "Existing law makes it unlawful to produce, process, sell, offer to sell, or possess olive oil that indicates on its label \"California Olive Oil,\" or uses similar words to indicate that California is the source of the oil, unless 100% of that oil is derived from olives grown in California. Existing law also requires that olive oil produced, processed, sold, offered for sale, given away, or possessed in California, that indicates on its label that it is from a specific region of California, be made of oil at least 85% of which, by weight, is derived from olives grown in that region. Existing law makes a violation of the requirements relating to the manufacture and marketing of olive oil a misdemeanor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 535"
citation: "California AB 535 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Olive oil: labeling."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aguiar-Curry"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 28
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2021-02-10"
last_action: "2021-10-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/73efa54d-2e0d-4922-b1a5-d64875b031d4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB535"
source_hash: "5719ee3a73488969eb8ba5d58b9c2d9719e827d0f9b429b1e85f0123225b1495"
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 535 (20212022) — Olive oil: labeling.

Existing law makes it unlawful to produce, process, sell, offer to sell, or possess olive oil that indicates on its label "California Olive Oil," or uses similar words to indicate that California is the source of the oil, unless 100% of that oil is derived from olives grown in California. Existing law also requires that olive oil produced, processed, sold, offered for sale, given away, or possessed in California, that indicates on its label that it is from a specific region of California, be made of oil at least 85% of which, by weight, is derived from olives grown in that region. Existing law makes a violation of the requirements relating to the manufacture and marketing of olive oil a misdemeanor.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/10/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB535&version=20210AB53599INT)
2. **03/18/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB535&version=20210AB53598AMD)
3. **06/09/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB535&version=20210AB53597AMD)
4. **06/28/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB535&version=20210AB53596AMD)
5. **07/15/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB535&version=20210AB53595AMD)
6. **10/04/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB535&version=20210AB53593CHP)
7. **AB535** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB535)
8. **09/03/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB535&version=20210AB53594ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB535 Aguiar-Curry et al. By Hurtado — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 535 Aguiar-Curry Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **11–3** (pass) · lower
- AB 535 Aguiar-Curry Assembly Third Reading — **56–7** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **13–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Aguiar-Curry — primary (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Burke — coauthor (person)
- Cooper — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Dodd — coauthor (person)
- Eggman — coauthor (person)
- Grayson — coauthor (person)
- Hurtado — coauthor (person)
- Jones — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Lorena Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Villapudua — coauthor (person)
- Wiener — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2021-02-11** From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
- **2021-02-18** Referred to Coms. on AGRI. and HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18** 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-1, reading-2`
- **2021-03-22** Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-25** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-13** Coauthors revised.
- **2021-04-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-21** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (April 21). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-05-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 7. Page 1427.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-05-18** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2021-05-27** Referred to Coms. on AGRI. and HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-09** 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-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-17** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2021-06-28** 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-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-07-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-07-14** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 14). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2021-07-15** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-08-16** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2021-08-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-08-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2221.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2021-09-01** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 58. Noes 17. Page 2625.)
- **2021-09-01** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 2644.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-09-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2021-10-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-10-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 466, 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/73efa54d-2e0d-4922-b1a5-d64875b031d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).