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, for carrying out the purposes of the act. The act requires each person to be licensed before 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 cattle, subject to specified conditions, including the condition that the person who raised the cattle and the mobile slaughter operator maintain records, as provided. A violation of the act is a misdemeanor.
California AB 888 (20212022) — Mobile slaughter operations: livestock.
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, for carrying out the purposes of the act. The act requires each person to be licensed before 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 cattle, subject to specified conditions, including the condition that the person who raised the cattle and the mobile slaughter operator maintain records, as provided. A violation of the act is a misdemeanor.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
AB 888 Levine Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
Special Consent AB888 — 38–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
AB 888 Levine Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Levine — primary (person)
Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2021-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2021-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
2021-02-25 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. (Ayes 10. 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 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. 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 77. Noes 0. Page 1773.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2021-06-16 Referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
2021-07-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (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 special consent calendar.
2021-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2489.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2021-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3009.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2021-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2021-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 378, Statutes of 2021. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/69b49152-1d23-48ca-bda3-65efc98655fb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).