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ACR 75

Authors

Alanis
Coauthors: Bains Flora Gallagher Macedo Nguyen Ransom Soria Tangipa Wallis Grove Valladares

Subject

California’s Farm Week.

Relating To

Title

Relative to food and agriculture.

Last Action Dt

2025-06-03

State

Chaptered

Status

Chaptered

Active?

Vote Required

None

Appropriation

None

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Local Program

None

Substantive Changes

None

Urgency

None

Tax Levy

None

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2025-06-03		Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 2 p.m.
2025-06-03		Chaptered by Secretary of State - Res. Chapter 83, Statutes of 2025.
2025-05-29		Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1766.).
2025-05-23		Adopted and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 1138.)
2025-05-23		In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-05-20		Ordered to special consent calendar.
2025-05-14		From committee: Ordered to third reading.
2025-05-13		From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS.
2025-05-08		Adopted and to Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1489.)
2025-05-08		In Senate. To Com. on RLS.
2025-05-06		Introduced measure version corrected.
2025-05-05		From committee: Be adopted. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 5).
2025-05-05		Referred to Com. on RLS.
2025-05-05		Coauthors revised.
2025-05-01		From printer.
2025-04-30		Introduced. To print.

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Chaptered		2025-06-03
Enrolled		2025-05-29
Amended Senate		2025-05-13
Introduced		2025-04-30

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				<html:p>WHEREAS, California is estimated to lose 797,400 acres of agricultural land by 2040, and more than 300,000 acres of it will have been highly productive irrigated cropland, and thus California should continue to work for conservation to preserve California’s agricultural heritage; and</html:p>
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					<html:i>Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate thereof concurring,</html:i>
					 That May 11, 2025, to May 17, 2025, inclusive, is designated as California’s Farm Week; and be it further
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					 That the Chief Clerk of the Assembly transmit copies of this resolution to the author for appropriate distribution.
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This measure would designate May 11, 2025, to May 17, 2025, inclusive, as California’s Farm Week.