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CaliforniaAB 13222025-2026 Regular SessionHouseWALLET

Agricultural commissions.

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Signed by Governor

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Bill Overview

Analyzed Economic Effects

7 provisions identified: 0 benefits, 1 costs, 6 mixed.

Pay nursery assessments or lose license

The Secretary may refuse, suspend, revoke, or not renew a nursery license if you fail to pay required assessments. The Secretary may also act for willful noncompliance, fraud or deception, poor cleanliness, or disobeying lawful orders.

Avocado assessments and spending caps

By November 1 each year, the commission sets the assessment for the next marketing season (November 1 to October 31). The rate cannot be more than 6.5% of your gross avocado sales. The combined commission and any state marketing order also cannot exceed 6.5% of sales. Administrative spending is capped at 2.5% of sales. Producers pay the assessment; handlers must deduct it, hold the money in trust, and send it to the commission.

Avocado commission powers, audits, refunds

The commission can hire staff, set procedures, borrow against assessments, contract, and run promotion and research. It must keep books, get an annual independent audit, allow state audits, and give quarterly program and cost summaries. The commission may require producers to give production locations and annual volumes; it must protect this data and use it only for stated business needs. If the commission stops operating, it sells assets and returns leftover assessment money pro rata to those who paid last season, or directs small sums to related programs. The state’s liability is limited to commission funds, and members and staff are not personally liable for contracts or honest mistakes.

New grape crush reports and privacy

Processors who crush grapes in California must file a detailed report by January 31 each year. It must list tons and prices by district and variety, bonuses, sugar (Brix), and any concentrate using set formulas (20° Brix ÷ 40; 68° Brix ÷ 170). Grape purchase contracts entered on or after January 1, 1977 must set a final price by the next January 31; processors also report by February 25 any final prices on pre‑1977 reference‑price contracts not in the January 31 filing. The Secretary publishes a preliminary summary by March 15 and a final summary by April 30 each year. Processor data stays confidential and can be shared only in enforcement cases, to verify a reference‑price contract at cost, or by subpoena; non‑brandy distilling grapes are reported separately and excluded from price averages. The Department must meet stricter standards before audits or court orders and cannot rely only on anonymous tips or on concentrate reporting.

Per-ton grape fee and deadlines

If you crush over 100 tons, you pay up to $0.10 per ton each season, split about $0.05 from you and $0.05 from the grower. The Secretary can set a lower rate and add up to $0.04 per ton for an acreage survey. Pay fees for grapes received through December 15 by January 31, and fees for grapes received after December 15 by June 30; assessments under this article are due by January 31 each year. You cannot charge growers an admin fee to collect assessments, and you cannot pass any penalty onto them; not paying the fee is a violation. Assessment data the Department collects stays with the Department; all receipts go to the Department Fund and may be used only for grape reports, the survey, and enforcement.

Who counts in olive-oil industry

A handler includes anyone who mills or processes olives into olive oil in California. If the handler is a corporation or LLC, its directors, officers, managers, and members can be personally liable for failing to collect or pay assessments. A producer is anyone whose olives are processed into 5,000 gallons or more of olive oil in a season; on request, producers must show proof of sale. A toll processor is someone who mills oil for a producer.

Avocado commission membership and oversight

The commission uses nomination and election rules the Secretary approves. Each district elects one alternate producer; the Secretary appoints one alternate public member. Producers must have a financial interest in the district they represent. Handler members must have handled at least 1% of industry volume last year and keep that level. The commission may appoint officers, and the Secretary must be told of each meeting and may attend.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsors

There is no primary sponsor on record.

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 217 • No: 0

House vote • 9/4/2025

Item 43 — Assembly AFLOOR

Yes: 78 • No: 0

Senate vote • 9/3/2025

Item 216 — Senate SFLOOR

Yes: 40 • No: 0

legislature vote • 7/1/2025

Vote in CS40

Yes: 5 • No: 0

House vote • 5/23/2025

Item 122 — Assembly AFLOOR

Yes: 71 • No: 0

legislature vote • 5/14/2025

Vote in CX25

Yes: 15 • No: 0

legislature vote • 4/30/2025

Vote in CX01

Yes: 8 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 188, Statutes of 2025.

    10/1/2025Senate

  2. Approved by the Governor.

    10/1/2025legislature

  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.

    9/15/2025legislature

  4. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2924.).

    9/4/2025House

  5. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

    9/3/2025House

  6. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2439.).

    9/3/2025Senate

  7. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

    8/28/2025Senate

  8. Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

    8/27/2025Senate

  9. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

    8/20/2025Senate

  10. Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

    8/19/2025Senate

  11. Ordered to third reading.

    7/17/2025Senate

  12. From Consent Calendar.

    7/17/2025Senate

  13. Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

    7/15/2025Senate

  14. From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.

    7/14/2025Senate

  15. 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.

    7/1/2025Senate

  16. In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

    6/12/2025Senate

  17. Referred to Com. on AGRI.

    6/4/2025Senate

  18. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

    5/23/2025Senate

  19. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1665.)

    5/23/2025House

  20. Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

    5/15/2025House

  21. From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14).

    5/14/2025House

  22. 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.

    5/1/2025House

  23. Referred to Com. on AGRI.

    3/10/2025House

  24. Read first time.

    2/24/2025House

  25. From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.

    2/22/2025House

Bill Text

  • Chaptered

    10/1/2025

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  • Enrolled

    9/8/2025

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  • Amended Senate

    8/27/2025

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  • Amended Senate

    8/19/2025

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  • Introduced

    2/21/2025

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