Jacqui Irwin
- Democratic
- Assemblymember
- District 42
Author
Existing law, the Cannella Environmental Farming Act of 1995, requires the Department of Food and Agriculture to establish and oversee an environmental farming program to provide incentives to farmers whose practices promote the well-being of ecosystems, air quality, and wildlife and their habitat. The act requires the Secretary of Food and Agriculture to convene the Scientific Advisory Panel on Environmental Farming, as prescribed, for the purpose of providing advice to the secretary on the implementation of the Healthy Soils Program and the State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program and assistance to federal, state, and local government agencies on issues relating to the impact of agricultural practices on air, water, and wildlife habitat, as specified. Existing law requires the department, in consultation with the panel, to establish and oversee a Healthy Soils Program to seek to optimize climate benefits while supporting the economic viability of California agriculture by providing incentives, including, but not limited to, loans, grants, research, and technical assistance, and educational materials and outreach, to farmers whose management practices contribute to healthy soils and result in net long-term on-farm greenhouse gas benefits. This bill would require the department to establish a technical assistance grant program to provide funds to technical assistance providers, as defined, to provide assistance to Healthy Soils Program, alternative manure management practices programs, and State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program applicants. The bill would require the secretary to make available to the grant program not less than 5% of the funds appropriated to the department for those programs, but not more than $5,000,000, for the purposes of providing technical assistance to farmers and ranchers who apply for grants from those programs, prioritizing that technical assistance to farms and ranches that are 500 acres or less, and supporting annual information sharing among technical assistance providers, the department, and other relevant stakeholders for the continuous improvement of programmatic guidelines, application processes, and relevant climate change and agricultural research. The bill would require the department, on or before January 31, 2021, to provide an update to the panel on the grant program.
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 868, Statutes of 2018.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6773.)
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6891.).
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5890.).
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 16).
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 5651.)
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (May 25).
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Coauthors revised.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 11). Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.
(pending re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES.)
Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 4554.)
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
Read first time. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
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| AB2377 | HTML |
| 02/14/18 - Introduced | |
| 05/25/18 - Amended Assembly | |
| 08/17/18 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/22/18 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/31/18 - Enrolled | |
| 09/28/18 - Chaptered |
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