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type: "Bill"
title: "Commercial feed: license fee: inspection tonnage tax."
description: "(1) Existing law requires that a license be obtained from the Secretary of Food and Agriculture for each location where commercial feed is manufactured, distributed, sold, or stored for later sale. Existing law requires each license application to be accompanied by an annual fee specified by the Department of Food and Agriculture for each location of at least $100, but not exceeding $600, with the specific fee to be set by the secretary upon recommendation of the Feed Inspection Advisory Board. Beginning January 1, 2010, the license fee is required to be $100 for each location. The funds collected are deposited into the continuously appropriated Food and Agriculture Fund."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 547"
citation: "California AB 547 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Commercial feed: license fee: inspection tonnage tax."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mendoza"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 20
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2009-02-25"
last_action: "2009-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c5abbd2-766c-4da6-a3bb-b6c6e6f2d810"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB547"
source_hash: "486ec4fdd814866a8c5a2c0d40c929c579a059a073a71ef0958ab66be5fd69f9"
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 547 (20092010) — Commercial feed: license fee: inspection tonnage tax.
(1) Existing law requires that a license be obtained from the Secretary of Food and Agriculture for each location where commercial feed is manufactured, distributed, sold, or stored for later sale. Existing law requires each license application to be accompanied by an annual fee specified by the Department of Food and Agriculture for each location of at least $100, but not exceeding $600, with the specific fee to be set by the secretary upon recommendation of the Feed Inspection Advisory Board. Beginning January 1, 2010, the license fee is required to be $100 for each location. The funds collected are deposited into the continuously appropriated Food and Agriculture Fund.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/25/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB547&version=20090AB54799INT)
2. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB547&version=20090AB54797CHP)
3. **AB547** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB547)
4. **09/03/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB547&version=20090AB54798ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB547 Mendoza By Florez — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 547 MENDOZA Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Mendoza — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2009-02-25** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
- **2009-03-12** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-16** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-04-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-04** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-11** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 1358.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-05-21** Referred to Com. on F. & A. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-10** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2009-07-07** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (July 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-07-23** Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
- **2009-07-23** (Page 1804.)
- **2009-07-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-08-17** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-08-31** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 2015.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-09-01** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2009-09-08** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:15 p.m.
- **2009-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 245, Statutes of 2009.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4c5abbd2-766c-4da6-a3bb-b6c6e6f2d810`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).