SB 651 California Senate · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Food and agriculture.

Summary

Existing law, in civil actions, requires the provisions of the Food and Agricultural Code to be liberally construed to accomplish specified purposes. Existing law, in criminal actions, requires the provisions of the Food and Agricultural Code to be construed according to the fair import of their terms, as provided. This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to the above-described provisions involving the construction of the provisions of the Food and Agricultural Code.

Bill status failed 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Feb 20, 2025 Last action Feb 2, 2026

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02/20/25 - Introduced → SB651 · 1 edit

MINOR

The diff reflects a change in document presentation format rather than a substantive policy change. The bill text itself remains identical: it makes nonsubstantive clarifying edits to Section 3 of the Food and Agricultural Code regarding how its provisions should be construed in civil and criminal actions. The 'to' version is a web-based rendering that adds navigation elements and removes traditional legislative formatting such as line numbers and page breaks.

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The document was reformatted from a traditional legislative print layout (with line numbers, page breaks, and column markers) to a web-based presentation with navigation links, search fields, and metadata sections. No changes were made to the actual statutory language.

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Committee

Mar 5, 2025

Committee

Referred to Com. on RLS.

upper

Feb 20, 2025

Introduced

Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

upper

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors