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Bill	Pesticide treated seed: labeling.	Existing law, the California Seed Law, regulates seed sold in California. The California Seed Law prohibits any person from shipping, delivering, transporting, or selling agricultural or vegetable seed that is treated after harvest with any substance that is likely to be poisonous or toxic to human beings or animals unless it is labeled with specified information, including the chemical or generic name of the treatment material, as provided. The California Seed Law requires, when more than one substance is applied to the seed, each substance applied to the seed to be noted on the label and the seed to be labeled for the substance with the higher level of toxicity.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 1042	California AB 1042 (20232024)	bill	Pesticide treated seed labeling	enacted	Bauer-Kahan	11	35	8	2023-02-15	2024-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/ffc27f20-4697-47f3-a8f0-5f6587dcf5d7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1042	9852f4608c0a0f5be50f03a31d4ccedf72a29f872f5393008c26b91a6cdbe28f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1042 (20232024) — Pesticide treated seed: labeling.

Existing law, the California Seed Law, regulates seed sold in California. The California Seed Law prohibits any person from shipping, delivering, transporting, or selling agricultural or vegetable seed that is treated after harvest with any substance that is likely to be poisonous or toxic to human beings or animals unless it is labeled with specified information, including the chemical or generic name of the treatment material, as provided. The California Seed Law requires, when more than one substance is applied to the seed, each substance applied to the seed to be noted on the label and the seed to be labeled for the substance with the higher level of toxicity.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/16/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/10/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/15/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/19/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/03/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/19/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/23/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/22/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB1042 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/05/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1042 Bauer-Kahan et al. By Allen — 32–8 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Agriculture] — 4–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 1042 Bauer-Kahan Assembly Third Reading — 53–19 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 11–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Environmental Quality] — 3–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1042 Bauer-Kahan Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 50–17 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Bauer-Kahan — primary (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2023-03-02 Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
• 2023-03-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
• 2023-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-05-03 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 19. Page 1889.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-31 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-06-07 Referred to Coms. on E.Q. and AGRI. referral-committee
• 2023-06-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E.Q. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-06-30 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2024-06-10 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
• 2024-06-11 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2024-06-11 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2024-06-12 Re-referred to Coms. on AGRI and E.Q. referral-committee
• 2024-06-18 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. (Ayes 3. Noes 0.) (June 18). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-06-19 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-07-03 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (July 3). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-07-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-08-05 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2024-08-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-23 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 8.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2024-08-31 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 50. Noes 17.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 348, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ffc27f20-4697-47f3-a8f0-5f6587dcf5d7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).