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Bill	Bees.	(1) Existing law creates the Apiary Board within the Department of Food and Agriculture. Existing law requires the board to consist of 5 members that are appointed by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture. Existing law requires those members to be assessment-paying beekeepers that reside in California and represent the major geographical divisions of the beekeeping industry. Existing law authorizes the secretary to appoint an additional member on the board as a public member.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 719	California AB 719 (20212022)	bill	Bees.	enacted	Committee on Agriculture	11	36	8	2021-02-16	2022-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/2240fceb-3f57-420f-bf37-0ea05fba4bbf	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB719	926bf5ee745129498ddd60cdec212b5ee0383a887de3536806fa8747e889db08	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 719 (20212022) — Bees.

(1) Existing law creates the Apiary Board within the Department of Food and Agriculture. Existing law requires the board to consist of 5 members that are appointed by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture. Existing law requires those members to be assessment-paying beekeepers that reside in California and represent the major geographical divisions of the beekeeping industry. Existing law authorizes the secretary to appoint an additional member on the board as a public member.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/30/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/22/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/24/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/22/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/17/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/24/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/26/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/28/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB719 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/02/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent AB719 AGRI. — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 719 Agriculture Concurrence in Senate Amendments By RIVAS, R. — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 719 AGRI. Assembly Third Reading By RIVAS, R. — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Committee on Agriculture — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2021-02-25 Referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2021-03-30 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
• 2021-04-05 Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2021-04-22 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
• 2021-04-26 Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2021-04-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-05-19 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1460.)
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 20). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-05-24 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1771.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-09 Referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
• 2021-06-22 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 APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-15 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 26). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-08-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-03 Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Eggman.
• 2022-08-17 From inactive file.
• 2022-08-17 Ordered to second reading.
• 2022-08-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-30 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2022-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5367.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2022-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 683, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2240fceb-3f57-420f-bf37-0ea05fba4bbf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).