Assembly Agriculture Committee, Wednesday, April 15, 2026

15 April 2026

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Assembly Agriculture Committee Tue, 14 Apr 2026 California State Assembly

36:33 - 40:01

Speaker 1

Since we don't since we don't have quorum yet, we will just open the hearing as a subcommittee just to, go through some of the fun facts that I like to share and then also just the little notes that we share before the beginning of every hearing. And so if we don't have obviously, we'll wait for members to show up to establish a quorum. I know it's a busy day, but it's gonna be it should be an easy committee today because we only have five bills and four of those are on proposed consent. But just to cover a few logistics so I get this out of the way, I'll read our logistics for every hearing. As we proceed with witnesses and public comment, I wanna make sure everyone understands that the assembly has rules to ensure we maintain order and run an efficient and fair hearing.

We apply these rules consistently to all people who participate in our proceedings regardless of the viewpoint they express. In order to facilitate the goal of hearing as much from the public within the limits of our time, we will not permit conduct that disrupts, disturbs, or otherwise impedes the orderly conduct of legislative proceedings. For those who will be providing comments today, we do ask that you please state your name and the organization you represent and if you supported or opposed the bill being considered. Also, for the members of the public, they may submit written comments to our committee through email. Emails may be sent to the address found on the committee website, which is agri.committee@assembly.ca.gov.

As I mentioned, we have five bills today on the file for our proposed to be on the consent, and we, will hear the bills as soon as, the member, member Conley, shows up to present the bill. But just a fun fact oh, I did also want to share next Tuesday is Ag Day, so it's always a fun time in the capital. We wanna encourage folks to participate and go check check out the different booth booths that will be outside on the West Steps. And, again, just a fun day to participate. My fun fact for today, so, you know, please allow me.

I know. Right? Get ready. What you guys know, I love to do this. But, for April, it is national pecan month.

I don't know about you guys, but I like pecan ice cream. This month celebrates the only major nut tree native to North America, and The United States produces roughly about 80% of the world's, pecan crop. Although California produces a smaller share of that, we do produce seven to 8,000,000 pounds of pecans every year, and those mostly come from my neck of the woods since pecans in California are only grown in the Central Valley in West Fresno County and then also down south in Kern County. Another fun fact, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson were huge fans of pecans. And then also, just because we love our astronauts, astronauts took pecans to the moon twice during Apollo thirteen and fourteen missions.

40:01 - 49:29

Speaker 2

So, yeah. So that's the fun fact for today. Hope you all enjoy and learn something new. So the hearing has been open, as you guys all know. So we do have a quorum, so I'll have the secretary, please call the roll.

Soria? Here. Soria here. Hadwick? Here.

Hadwick here. Alanis? Aguirre? Yep. Aguirre here.

Connolly?

49:29 - 49:30

Speaker 3

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