California Legislative Bills of Concern to CAFF
Click on the bill for full text; click on the subject for a fact sheet;
and click on our position for any letter of support or opposition.
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COMM = “Committee”
2022
2022 California Legislative Bills of Concern to CAFF
| Bill | Subject | CAFF Position |
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House of Origin FLOOR |
Second House COMM |
Second House FLOOR |
Governor |
| AB 2499 (Maienschein) | Organic Transition Program | Support | |
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| AB 2213 (Aguiar-Curry) | Research Winegrapes & Smoke Exposure | Support | |
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| SB 982 (Laird) | Organic Apple Certification Program | Support | |
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| SB 1308 (Caballero) | Public educational institutions: purchase of nondomestic agricultural food products. | Support | |
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| AB 2082 (Rivas) | Farmworker Indigenous Language Outreach Program | Support | |
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| AB 2457 (Gray) | Agricultural seeds: labeling: quick response code | Oppose | |
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| AB 1870 (Stone) | Organic Products Streamlining | Support | |
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| SB 926 (Dodd) | Prescribed Fire Liability Pilot Program: Prescribed Fire Claims Fund | Support | |
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| SB 907 (Pan) | Electronic benefits transfer systems: farmers’ markets. | Support | |
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| AB 778 ( E. Garcia) | California Grown: State Institutions | Support | |
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| SB 490 (Caballero) | Buy American Food Act | Support | |
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| AB 2201 (Bennett) | Groundwater Wells | Neutral | |
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| AB 1717 (Aguiar-Curry) | Labor in fuel reduction | Neutral | |
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Updated 10-6-2022
2021
2021 California Legislative Bills of Concern to CAFF
| Bill | Subject | CAFF Position |
House of Origin COMM |
House of Origin FLOOR |
Second House COMM |
Second House FLOOR |
Governor |
| AB 125 (Rivas) | Food & Agriculture Bond Act | Support | 2-yr | ||||
| AB 252 (Rivas& Salas) | SGMA Land Repurposing | Support | |
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| AB 350 (Villapadua) | SMGA Ombudspeople | Support | |
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| AB 535 (Aguiar-Curry) | Olive Oil Labeling | Support | |
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| AB 778 (E. Garcia) | Institutional Purchase of CA Grown | Support | |
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| AB 888 (Levine) | Mobile Slaughter Operations; Sheep & Goats | Support | |
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| AB 1009 (Bloom) | Farm to School Food Hub | Support | |
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| AB 1144 (Rivas) | Cottage Food | Support | |
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| SB 74 (Borgeas & Caballero) | Keep CA Working Act | Support | |
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| AB 368 (Bonta) | Food as Medicine Pilot | Support | |
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| AB 379 (Gallagher) | Land Conservation with CA Native American Tribes | Support | |
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| AB 391(Villapadua) | Pollinator Habitat | Support | |
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| SB 11(Rubio) | Expand FAIR Plan to Farm Infrastructure | Support | |
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| SB 364 (Skinner) | Universal School Meals | Support | 2-yr |
Updated 06-29-2021
2020
2020 California Legislative Bills of Concern to CAFF
| Bill | Subject | CAFF Position | House of Origin COMM | House of Origin FLOOR | Second House COMM | Second House FLOOR | Governor |
| AB 196 (Gonzalez) | Workers Compensation | Support | | | | | |
| AB 570 (Eggman) | Broadband | Support | | | | | |
| AB 685 (Reyes) | COVID-19 Reporting | Support | | | | | |
| AB 826 (Reyes) | Emergency Food Assistance | Support | | | | | |
| AB 1071 (Limon) | Climate Adaptation | Support | | | | ||
| AB 1248 (E Garcia) | California-grown | Support | | | | ||
| AB 2043 (Rivas) | COVID-19 Outreach | Support | | | | | |
| AB 2167 (Daly) | Insurance Market Action Plan (IMAP) | Support | | | | | |
| AB 3012 (Wood) | Replacing homes after fires | Support | | | | | |
| SB 292 (Rubio) | Companion bill to AB 2167 | Support | | | | | |
| SB 1159 (Daly) | Workers Compensation- critical workers | – | | | | | |
Updated 09-30-20
2019
2019 California Legislative Bills of Concern to CAFF
| Bill | Subject | CAFF Position | House of Origin COMM | House of Origin FLOOR | Second House COMM | Second House FLOOR | Governor |
| AB 138 (Bloom) | Soda Tax | Support | 2 YR | ||||
| AB 144 (Aguiar-Curry) | Organic Waste | Support | |
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| AB 202 (Mathis) | Safe Harbor Agreements | Support |  |
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| AB 217 (Eduardo Garcia) | Drinking Water | Support | |
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| AB 382 (Mathis) | Upper Watershed Health | Support | |
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| AB 409 (Limón) | Climate Adaptation | Support | |
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| AB 417 (Arambula- RivasMathis) | Agriculture and Rural Prosperity Act | Support | |
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| AB 488 (Aguiar- Curry) | California Broadband Council | Support | |
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| AB 614 (Eggman) | Food Banks | Support | |
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| AB 782 (Berman) | California Environmental Quality Act | Support | |
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| AB 838 (Eggman) | Small Farm Program 2.0 | Support | 2 YR | ||||
| AB 958 (Aguiar- Curry) | Organic-to-School | Support | |
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| AB 986 (Rivas) | Land Equity Program | Support | |
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| AB 1086 (Bauer-Kahan) | SWEEP | Support | |
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| SB 45 (Allen) | Bond | Watch | 2 YR | ||||
| SB 62 (Dodd) | Safe Harbor Agreements | Support | |
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| SB 253 (Dodd) | Wildlife Habitat | Support | |
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| SB 499 (McGuire) | School Food Subsidies | Support | |
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2018
2018 California Legislative Bills of Concern to CAFF
| Bill | Subject | CAFF Position | House of Origin COMM | House of Origin FLOOR | Second House COMM | Second House FLOOR | Governor |
| AB 1981 (Limon) | Organic Waste Compost | Support | |
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| AB 2106 (E.Garcia) | Institutional purchasing | Support | |
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| AB 2166 (Caballero) | CA Farm Bill | |
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| AB 2335 (Ting) | Nutrition Incentives | Support | |
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| AB 2377 (Irwin) | Climate Smart Agriculture Act | Support | |
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| AB 2411 (McCarty) | Compost | Support | |
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| AB 2909 (Wood) | Small poultry | Support | |
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| AB 2754 (Levine) | Coast Development | |
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| AB 2940 (Caballero) | Farm Trucks | Support | |
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| SB 900 (Wiener) | Calfresh EBT | Support | |
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Updated 10-03-18
2017
2017 California Legislative Bills of Concern to CAFF
Last Update: Oct 16, 2017
2016
2016 California Legislative Bills of Concern to CAFF
| Bill | Subject | CAFF Position | House of Origin COMM | House of Origin FLOOR | Second House COMM | Second House FLOOR | Governor |
| AB 1066 | Agricultural Workers: Overtime | Oppose |  | | | | |
| AB 1577 (Eggman) | Food bank donations | Support | | | | | |
| AB 1613 (Weber) | Budget Act | Support | | | | | |
| AB 1755 (Dodd) | Water Data Act | | | | | | |
| AB 1810 (Levine) | Seed Swaps | Support | | | | | |
| AB 1826 (Stone) | CA Organic Program | Support if Amended | | | | | |
| AB 2304 (Levine) | Water marketing | Support | | ||||
| AB 2324 (Eggman) | Farmers Markets | Support | | | | | |
| AB 2630 (Salas) | Siting solar projects on ag land | | | | |||
| AB 2715 (Garcia, Dodd, Alejo) | Ag Energy Efficient Housing | Support | | | | ||
| AB 2755 (Gallagher) | Beehive theft | Support | | | | | |
| SB 313 | Schools on farmland | Support | | | | ||
| SB 859 | Greenhouse gas emissions and biomass | Support | | | | | |
| SB 1247 (Jackson) | Ag Innovation Zones | | |||||
| SB 1282 (Leno) | Neonics | Support | | | |||
| SB 1317 (Wolk) | Well permits | Support | | | | ||
| SB 1350 (Wolk) | Healthy soils | Support | | ||||
| SB 1386 (Wolk) | Working lands | Support | | | | | |
Last Update: March 31, 2016
2015
2015 California Legislative Bills of Concern to CAFF
| Bill | Subject | CAFF Position | House of Origin COMM | House of Origin FLOOR | Second House COMM | Second House FLOOR | Governor |
| AB 234 (Gordon) | Sale to Food Facilities | Support | | | | | |
| AB 647 (Eggman) | Division of Groundwater | Watch | | | | ||
| AB 761 (Levine) | Carbon farm planning | Watch | | | 2 YR | ||
| AB 1045 (Irwin) | Organic waste: composting | Support | | | | | |
| AB 1135 (Committee on Agriculture) | Certified farmers markets | Support | | | | ||
| AB 1242 (Gray) | Protecting central valley water resources | Watch | | | | ||
| AB 1244 (Gray) | Water rights: small irrigation use | Support | | ||||
| Organic input material | Support | | |||||
| AB 1259 (Levine) | Apiculture on State-owned land | Watch | | | | | |
| AB 1321 (Ting) | Nutrition incentive matching grant program | Support | | | | | |
| Sugar sweetened beverage health | Support | | |||||
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| SB 32 (Pavley) | Greenhouse gas emissions limit | | | | | ||
| SB 148 (McGuire) | Career and job skills education act | Support | | | | ||
| SB 228 (Cannella) | Groundwater storage: beneficial use | | |||||
| SB 367 (Wolk) | Environmental farming program | Sponsor | | | 2 YR |