republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/19992000/ab-2705.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Agricultural industry energy program."
description: "Agricultural industry energy program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 2705"
citation: "California AB 2705 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agricultural industry energy program."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Agriculture"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2000-02-25"
last_action: "2000-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/dfa3ca76-4056-422e-bb47-b4ec2565d84e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2705"
source_hash: "3fd0c5dc2b0f7cd458b4c59918158d0ac7d1803c2399a55665d6e9b3bcff2a38"
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 AB 2705 (19992000) — Agricultural industry energy program.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/25/00 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2705&version=19990AB270599INT)
2. **04/04/00 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2705&version=19990AB270598AMD)
3. **08/08/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2705&version=19990AB270597AMD)
4. **08/18/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2705&version=19990AB270596AMD)
5. **08/24/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2705&version=19990AB270595AMD)
6. **09/30/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2705&version=19990AB270593CHP)
7. **AB2705** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2705)
8. **08/31/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2705&version=19990AB270594ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2705 AGRI. THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2705 COMMITTEE ON AGRICULTURE SPEC. CONS ENT CALENDAR FIRS T DAY CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Utilities and Commerce to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- SPECIAL CONSENT CALE AB2705 Committee on Agri. (Cardoza) By Costa — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Agriculture — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2000-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 1046, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-09-14** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2000-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 74. Noes 1. Page 9032.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2000-08-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2000-08-30** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 6347.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-08-25** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-08-24** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2000-08-18** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.). Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-08-08** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-08-07** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 6. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2000-06-08** Referred to Standing Committee on Energy, Utilities and Communications. `referral-committee`
- **2000-05-31** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2000-05-30** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6717.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-05-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (May 24). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-05-03** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2000-04-25** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 24). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2000-04-13** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Utilities and Commerce with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 12). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2000-04-06** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Agriculture. `referral-committee`
- **2000-04-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Agriculture Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-03-23** Referred to Standing Committee on Agriculture and Standing Committee on Utilities and Commerce. `referral-committee`
- **2000-02-28** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2000-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2000-02-25** Introduced. To print. `introduction`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/dfa3ca76-4056-422e-bb47-b4ec2565d84e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).