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type: "Bill"
title: "Food and agriculture: omnibus bill."
description: "(1) Existing law requires the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to establish and administer a research program to control vertebrate pests, as specified. Existing law requires the secretary to establish the Vertebrate Pest Control Research Advisory Committee, and requires the committee to make recommendations to the secretary regarding vertebrate pest control research each year. Existing law requires each county agricultural commissioner to pay a specified fee to the secretary based on the amount of vertebrate pest control material sold, distributed, or applied by the county, as specified. Existing law creates the Vertebrate Pest Control Research Account in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund, and continuously appropriates the moneys in the account to the secretary for specified purposes. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2026."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 1505"
citation: "California AB 1505 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Foodandagriculture", "omnibusbill"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Agriculture"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-25"
last_action: "2025-10-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5e9053ae-ae5e-4525-8138-6adc557a968b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1505"
source_hash: "e462867df898e1238a4e4e6818ba576a1c71477eeabec56f06b699b8427498f1"
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 1505 (20252026) — Food and agriculture: omnibus bill.
(1) Existing law requires the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to establish and administer a research program to control vertebrate pests, as specified. Existing law requires the secretary to establish the Vertebrate Pest Control Research Advisory Committee, and requires the committee to make recommendations to the secretary regarding vertebrate pest control research each year. Existing law requires each county agricultural commissioner to pay a specified fee to the secretary based on the amount of vertebrate pest control material sold, distributed, or applied by the county, as specified. Existing law creates the Vertebrate Pest Control Research Account in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund, and continuously appropriates the moneys in the account to the secretary for specified purposes. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2026.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/25/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1505&version=20250AB150599INT)
2. **06/19/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1505&version=20250AB150598AMD)
3. **10/01/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1505&version=20250AB150596CHP)
4. **AB1505** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1505)
5. **08/27/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1505&version=20250AB150597ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **80** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **140** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1505 AGRI. (Soria) By Caballero — **350** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **50** (pass) · upper
- AB 1505 Agriculture Concurrence in Senate Amendments By SORIA — **760** (pass) · lower
- AB 1505 Agriculture Assembly Third Reading By SORIA — **790** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Committee on Agriculture — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-25** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
- **2025-03-13** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-14** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-06-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1893.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-06-11** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on AGRI. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-14** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2025-07-15** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-07-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 2138.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-07-17** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2025-08-25** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2727.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-02** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2025-10-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 198, 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/5e9053ae-ae5e-4525-8138-6adc557a968b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).