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 01/05/26 - Amended Assembly
 01/13/25 - Introduced

 AB-230 Pest control: Pierce’s disease.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/08/2026 09:00 PM

AB230:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 June 08, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 January 05, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 230

Introduced by Assembly Member Ransom
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Aguiar-Curry, Alanis, Jeff Gonzalez, and Hadwick)

January 13, 2025

An act to amend Sections 6046, 6047.2, 6047.3, 6047.3.5, 6047.19, 6047.20, 6047.21, 6047.22, 6047.23, 6047.27, and 6047.29 of of, to amend the heading of Article 8.5 (commencing with Section 6047.1) of Chapter 9 of Part 1 of Division 4 of, to add Section 6047.31 to, and to repeal and add Section 6047.20 of, the Food and Agricultural Code, relating to pest control, and making an appropriation therefor. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 230, as amended, Ransom.
 Pest control: Pierce’s disease.

(1) Existing law establishes the Pierce’s Disease Control Program in the Department of Food and Agriculture, and the Pierce’s Disease Management Account in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund. Existing law allows certain money in this account to be expended to combat Pierce’s disease and its vectors, including the glassy-winged sharpshooter, and for purposes relating to other designated pests and diseases, as provided. Existing law makes these provisions inoperative on March 1, 2031.

This bill would extend the operation of these provisions to March 1, 2036. indefinitely, except that the bill would make
 these provisions inoperative on a specified date if the Secretary of Food and Agriculture finds that a favorable vote in a referendum has not been given for the continued implementation of the provisions regarding the Winegrape Pest and Disease Prevention Board, as described below. By extending the operative date for operation of a partially continuously appropriated fund, this bill would make an appropriation.

(2) Existing law creates in the department the Pierce’s Disease and Glassy-winged Sharpshooter Board, which consists of specified members, and prescribes the functions and duties of the board with respect to implementation of the Pierce’s disease program. Existing law provides
 for an annual assessment to be paid by grape processors, as defined, into the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund and continuously appropriates the collected funds for the purposes of, among other things, research and other activities related to the Pierce’s disease program. Existing law repeals these provisions on March 1, 2031.

This bill would change the name of the board to the Winegrape Pest and Disease Prevention Board.

This bill would extend the operation of these the provisions to March 1, 2036,
 concerning the board indefinitely, except that this bill would make these provisions inoperative as of March 1, 2031, unless the Secretary of Food and Agriculture finds that a favorable vote in a specified referendum has been given. The bill would require, no later than April 15, 2030, the secretary to establish a list of those individuals eligible to vote in the referendum on the continued implementation of these provisions, as specified. By
 require the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, no later than June 30, 2030, and at least once every 5 years thereafter, to hold one or more public hearings to determine whether the operation of these provisions should be continued. If the secretary makes a specified finding after one of those hearings, the bill would require the secretary to conduct a referendum on the continued operation of the board. If the secretary finds that a favorable vote in the referendum has not been given for the continued operation of the board, the bill would end the operation of the board as of March 1 of the calendar year immediately following the calendar year in which the referendum is held.

By
 extending the date until which the assessments are collected and deposited into a continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation.

(3) Existing law, until March 1, 2031, requires the secretary Secretary of Food and Agriculture to appoint an advisory task force for the purpose of advising the secretary on the control and management of Pi