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Bill	The Buy American Food Act: public institutions: purchase of nondomestic agricultural food products.	(1) Existing law requires all California state-owned or state-run institutions, except public universities and colleges and school districts, to purchase an agricultural product grown in California when the bid or price of the California-grown agricultural product does not exceed by more than 5% the lowest bid or price for an agricultural product produced outside the state and the quality of the California-grown agricultural product is comparable. Existing law also requires the institutions, when they solicit or intend to accept a bid or price for agricultural products grown outside the state, to accept the bid or price from a vendor that packs or processes these agricultural products in the state before accepting a bid or price from a vendor that packs or processes these agricultural products outside of the state when specified conditions are met. Existing law requires a school district that solicits bids for the purchase of an agricultural product to accept a bid or price for that agricultural product when it is grown in California before accepting a bid or price for an agricultural product that is grown outside the state when the bid or price of the California-grown agricultural product does not exceed the lowest bid or price for an agricultural product produced outside the state and the quality of the California-grown agricultural product is comparable. Under existing law, these provisions only apply to a contract to purchase agricultural products for a value that is less than the value of the threshold for supplies and services for which California has obligated itself under the Agreement on Government Procurement of the World Trade Organization.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 490	California SB 490 (20212022)	bill	The Buy American Food Act: public institutions: purchase of nondomestic agricultural food products.	enacted	Caballero	7	41	9	2021-02-17	2022-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/7458b490-bc77-4b4a-bb4d-9d683dfe9847	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB490	0441c6dde73f156fa5c44894fc4ed606676dba92ccde2e09859ebd4537c8733a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 490 (20212022) — The Buy American Food Act: public institutions: purchase of nondomestic agricultural food products.

(1) Existing law requires all California state-owned or state-run institutions, except public universities and colleges and school districts, to purchase an agricultural product grown in California when the bid or price of the California-grown agricultural product does not exceed by more than 5% the lowest bid or price for an agricultural product produced outside the state and the quality of the California-grown agricultural product is comparable. Existing law also requires the institutions, when they solicit or intend to accept a bid or price for agricultural products grown outside the state, to accept the bid or price from a vendor that packs or processes these agricultural products in the state before accepting a bid or price from a vendor that packs or processes these agricultural products outside of the state when specified conditions are met. Existing law requires a school district that solicits bids for the purchase of an agricultural product to accept a bid or price for that agricultural product when it is grown in California before accepting a bid or price for an agricultural product that is grown outside the state when the bid or price of the California-grown agricultural product does not exceed the lowest bid or price for an agricultural product produced outside the state and the quality of the California-grown agricultural product is comparable. Under existing law, these provisions only apply to a contract to purchase agricultural products for a value that is less than the value of the threshold for supplies and services for which California has obligated itself under the Agreement on Government Procurement of the World Trade Organization.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/22/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/08/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/25/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/27/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB490 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/06/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 13–3 (pass) · lower
• SB 490 Caballero Senate Third Reading By WILSON — 69–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB490 Caballero Concurrence — 39–1 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB490 Caballero et al. — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Caballero — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2021-02-18 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
• 2021-02-22 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
• 2021-02-22 (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
• 2021-02-22 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
• 2021-02-25 Referred to Com. on HOUSING. referral-committee
• 2021-03-26 Set for hearing April 29.
• 2021-04-05 April 29 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-04-06 Set for hearing April 15.
• 2021-04-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 815.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-21 Set for hearing May 3.
• 2021-04-22 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-05-04 May 3 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2021-05-14 Set for hearing May 20.
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1193.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-02 Ordered to inactive file on request of Senator Caballero.
• 2022-01-18 From inactive file on motion of Senator Caballero.
• 2022-01-18 Ordered to second reading.
• 2022-01-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-01-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2802.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-01-24 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2022-05-05 Referred to Com. on H. & C.D. referral-committee
• 2022-06-08 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-15 June 15 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2022-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-08-03 August 3 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 3.) (August 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-25 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-25 Ordered to third reading.
• 2022-08-25 Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2022-08-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-30 Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
• 2022-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-30 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2022-08-31 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 1. Page 5372.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2022-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 602, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7458b490-bc77-4b4a-bb4d-9d683dfe9847. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).