republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-945.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Secretary of Food and Agriculture regulation: equine drugs: fruits, nuts, and vegetables standards."
description: "Existing law prohibits, as specified, the showing of a horse at a public horse show, competition, or sale if the horse has been administered a prohibited substance. Existing law exempts from these provisions on the drugging of horses any individual horse show, competition, or sale that is certified by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, with a 30-day written notice of a public hearing to the advisory committee, if the secretary determines that specified criteria are satisfied."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 945"
citation: "California AB 945 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Secretary of Food and Agriculture regulation: equine drugs: fruits", "nuts", "and vegetables standards."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Agriculture"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2009-02-26"
last_action: "2009-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/67a8ff20-4b90-44ec-8c71-fdcab3eff7a7"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB945"
source_hash: "8dc37a440837b6de144f6397cbfbe9eb6a741d90a42f3fa71e1acce5228a70a2"
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 945 (20092010) — Secretary of Food and Agriculture regulation: equine drugs: fruits, nuts, and vegetables standards.

Existing law prohibits, as specified, the showing of a horse at a public horse show, competition, or sale if the horse has been administered a prohibited substance. Existing law exempts from these provisions on the drugging of horses any individual horse show, competition, or sale that is certified by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, with a 30-day written notice of a public hearing to the advisory committee, if the secretary determines that specified criteria are satisfied.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/26/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB945&version=20090AB94599INT)
2. **04/13/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB945&version=20090AB94598AMD)
3. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB945&version=20090AB94596CHP)
4. **AB945** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB945)
5. **09/17/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB945&version=20090AB94597ENR)

## Votes

- AB 945 AGRI. Assembly Third Reading By GALGIANI — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB945 Committee on AGRI. (Galgiani) By Maldonado — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Agriculture — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-02-26** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-02-27** From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
- **2009-03-26** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-04-13** Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-16** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. 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`
- **2009-05-14** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1456.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-14** 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** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2009-08-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (August 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-08-19** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-09-09** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2338.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-09-10** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2009-09-28** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2009-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 262, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/67a8ff20-4b90-44ec-8c71-fdcab3eff7a7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).