republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20012002/ab-1612.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Agricultural and seafood industries."
description: "Agricultural and seafood industries."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 1612"
citation: "California AB 1612 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Agricultural and seafood industries."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Matthews"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2001-02-23"
last_action: "2001-10-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e8bbc237-d879-4f9f-b40f-547aac26810a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1612"
source_hash: "9d68b60667eef4ab94556f168fd0278f55ddc66d089e0cc2c529fae0c15cb929"
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 1612 (20012002) — Agricultural and seafood industries.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/23/01 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1612&version=20010AB161299INT)
2. **04/16/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1612&version=20010AB161298AMD)
3. **08/29/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1612&version=20010AB161297AMD)
4. **09/04/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1612&version=20010AB161296AMD)
5. **09/07/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1612&version=20010AB161295AMD)
6. **10/04/01 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1612&version=20010AB161293CHP)
7. **AB1612** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1612)
8. **09/14/01 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB1612&version=20010AB161294ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1612 AGRI. Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Senate amendments be concurred in. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1612 Matthews Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1612 Matthews By Costa — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Matthews — primary (person)
- Costa — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-10-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 510, Statutes of 2001.
- **2001-10-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2001-10-01** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2001-09-14** From committee: With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (September 13). Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 3977.) `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2001-09-13** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Agriculture pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2001-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 14 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2001-09-12** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 8. Page 2789.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-09-07** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1, committee-passage`
- **2001-09-04** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee, amendment-passage`
- **2001-08-31** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 6. Noes 1.). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2001-08-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on AGR. & WAT. RES. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-07-03** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2001-07-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. Joint Rule 62(a), file notice waived. (Page 1783.)
- **2001-06-05** Referred to Com. on AGR. & WAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2001-05-24** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1803.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-05-21** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-05-17** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2001-04-26** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 25). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2001-04-19** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Agriculture. `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Agriculture Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-03-21** Referred to Standing Committee on Agriculture. `referral-committee`
- **2001-02-26** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2001-02-25** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2001-02-23** 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/e8bbc237-d879-4f9f-b40f-547aac26810a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).