CAFF-Sponsored Bills
Cooperative Tool Sharing Bill (AB 552)
AB 552 creates the California Regional Farmer Equipment & Cooperative Resources program. The program will support small farm equipment lending programs across the state by funding both existing and new programs to purchase equipment, infrastructure, maintenance, and training, as well as some personnel costs.
Local Food Producers Bill (AB 1197)
The Local Food Producers Bill, if passed, will help identify and create a legal definition for “Local Food Producers”, independently-owned farms operated on less than 500 acres who sell direct to their local community. Join us today in calling on our state leaders to pass this bill!
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2022 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 552 (Bennett) | Cooperative Tool Sharing | Sponsor | ![]() | ![]() | |||
AB 1197 (Hart) | Local Food Producer | Sponsor | ![]() | ![]() | |||
AB 1563 (Bennett) | Groundwater extraction permit | ![]() | ![]() | ||||
AB 560 (Bennett) | Groundwater Adjudication | Support, if amended | ![]() | ![]() | |||
AB 779 (Wilson) | Groundwater Adjudication | Support, if amended | ![]() | ![]() | |||
AB 408 (Wilson) | Food & Farm Bond | Support | ![]() | ![]() | |||
AB 54 (Aguiar-Curry) | Winegrapes Smoke Taint Study | Support | ![]() | ||||
SB 675 (Limon) | Prescribed Grazing | Support | ![]() | ![]() | | ||
AB 64 (Mathis) | Wild Beaver: release | Support | ![]() | ||||
AB 652 (Lee) | DPR EJ Advisory Committee | Support | ![]() | ![]() | |||
AB 900 (Bennett) | Aquifer Recharge Study | Support, if amended | ![]() | ||||
AB 404 (Connolly) | Reporting requirements: small and mid-scale farmers | Support | ![]() | ![]() | |||
AB 405 (Connolly) | Organic Products | Support | ![]() | ![]() | |||
AB 1099 (M Dahle) | Goat Herders | Support | ![]() | ||||
SB 224 (Hurtado) | Foreign Ag Land Ownership | Support | ![]() | ||||
AB 970 (L Rivas) | Climate-Related Insurance | Support | ![]() | ![]() | |||
AB 853 (Maienschein) | Californians Right to Access Essential Goods & Services | Support | ![]() | ![]() | |||
SB 688 (Padilla) | Agrivoltaic Systems | Support if amended | ![]() | ![]() | |||
SB 227 (Durazo) | Safety Net For All | Support | ![]() | ![]() | |||
AB 923 (Bauer-Kahan) | Flood Plain Restoration Projects | Support | ![]() | ![]() | |||
AB 1205 (Bauer-Kahan) | Water rights: sale, transform, or lease | Support | ![]() | ![]() | |||
SB 310 (Dodd) | Cultural Burns | Support | ![]() | ![]() | |||
AB 1232 (Connolly) | Animal Welfare Program | Support | ![]() | ||||
SB 620 (McGuire) | Special Occupancy Parks | Support | ![]() | ![]() | |||
AB 1603 (Alvarez) | Consumer Co-ops | Support | ![]() | ![]() | |||
Updated 06-07-23
2022
2022 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 2499 (Maienschein) | Organic Transition Program | Support | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ||
AB 2213 (Aguiar-Curry) | Research Winegrapes & Smoke Exposure | Support | ![]() | ||||
SB 982 (Laird) | Organic Apple Certification Program | Support | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
SB 1308 (Caballero) | Public educational institutions: purchase of nondomestic agricultural food products. | Support | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ||
AB 2082 (Rivas) | Farmworker Indigenous Language Outreach Program | Support | ![]() | ||||
AB 2457 (Gray) | Agricultural seeds: labeling: quick response code | Oppose | ![]() | ||||
AB 1870 (Stone) | Organic Products Streamlining | Support | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
SB 926 (Dodd) | Prescribed Fire Liability Pilot Program: Prescribed Fire Claims Fund | Support | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
SB 907 (Pan) | Electronic benefits transfer systems: farmers’ markets. | Support | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
AB 778 ( E. Garcia) | California Grown: State Institutions | Support | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
SB 490 (Caballero) | Buy American Food Act | Support | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
AB 2201 (Bennett) | Groundwater Wells | Neutral | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | died in concurrence |
AB 1717 (Aguiar-Curry) | Labor in fuel reduction | Neutral | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() | ![]() |
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 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 |