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type: "Bill"
title: "Liens: harvested crops."
description: "Existing law extends to any person who, as an employee, and by their own labor, performs work harvesting or transporting harvested crops or farm products that are owned and grown or produced by a limited partnership, a lien upon the severed crops or farm products, or proceeds from their sale, for the value of the labor done, unless the owner who otherwise would be subject to a lien gives the Labor Commissioner a bond that is conditioned upon the payment of all wages found to be due and unpaid in connection with the operations, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "SB 846"
citation: "California SB 846 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Liens", "harvestedcrops"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["McNerney"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-02-21"
last_action: "2025-07-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/35a905ec-9c85-4274-90ab-65b95519f67f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB846"
source_hash: "1cf5e43a46a5a4b50bc0015e323925cc1ca79247395634e97fb817753a3af213"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California SB 846 (20252026) — Liens: harvested crops.
Existing law extends to any person who, as an employee, and by their own labor, performs work harvesting or transporting harvested crops or farm products that are owned and grown or produced by a limited partnership, a lien upon the severed crops or farm products, or proceeds from their sale, for the value of the labor done, unless the owner who otherwise would be subject to a lien gives the Labor Commissioner a bond that is conditioned upon the payment of all wages found to be due and unpaid in connection with the operations, as specified.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/21/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB846&version=20250SB84699INT)
2. **03/26/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB846&version=20250SB84698AMD)
3. **07/14/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB846&version=20250SB84696CHP)
4. **SB846** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB846)
5. **06/25/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB846&version=20250SB84697ENR)
## Votes
- SB 846 McNerney Consent Calendar Second Day — **710** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **110** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **340** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **120** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- McNerney — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-21** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2025-02-24** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
- **2025-02-24** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2025-03-12** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** 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`
- **2025-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-11** Set for hearing May 6.
- **2025-05-07** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 1027.) (May 6). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-08** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-15** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 1090.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-05-15** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-29** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-17** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 17). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-18** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-06-23** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 2248.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-23** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2025-07-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:15 a.m.
- **2025-07-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 57, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/35a905ec-9c85-4274-90ab-65b95519f67f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).