Department of Food and Agriculture: farm products: licenses and complaints: fees.
(1) Existing law requires a person engaged in the business of processing or manufacturing any farm product to be licensed by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, as specified. Existing law requires a person engaged in the business of buying, receiving on consignment, soliciting for sale on commission, or negotiating the sale of farm products from a licensee or producer for resale to be licensed by the secretary. Existing law requires each applicant for a license to pay to the Department of Food and Agriculture a fee in accordance with a fee schedule for each kind of license that contains specified tiers determined by the annual dollar volume of business based on farm product values.
California SB 1270 (20232024) — Department of Food and Agriculture: farm products: licenses and complaints: fees.
(1) Existing law requires a person engaged in the business of processing or manufacturing any farm product to be licensed by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, as specified. Existing law requires a person engaged in the business of buying, receiving on consignment, soliciting for sale on commission, or negotiating the sale of farm products from a licensee or producer for resale to be licensed by the secretary. Existing law requires each applicant for a license to pay to the Department of Food and Agriculture a fee in accordance with a fee schedule for each kind of license that contains specified tiers determined by the annual dollar volume of business based on farm product values.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
SB 1270 Grove Senate Third Reading By Alanis — 76–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 3–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Grove — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2024-02-15 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2024-02-16 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
2024-02-29 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
2024-03-18 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2024-04-03 Re-referred to Coms. on AGRI and JUD. referral-committee
2024-04-04 Set for hearing April 16.
2024-04-09 Set for hearing April 23 in JUD. pending receipt.
2024-04-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 3. Noes 0. Page 3629.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2024-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3726.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2024-04-26 Set for hearing May 6.
2024-05-06 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3849.) (May 6). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-05-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2024-05-16 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3919.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-05-16 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2024-06-03 Referred to Com. on AGRI. referral-committee
2024-06-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2024-08-07 August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
2024-08-15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (August 15). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2024-08-22 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-08-22 Ordered to third reading.
2024-08-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6533.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-08-26 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2024-08-27 Ordered to special consent calendar.
2024-08-28 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5615.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-09-04 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2024-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2024-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 603, Statutes of 2024. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/42b9995c-4f29-4f05-ae64-53612230a798. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).