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CA AB 411

enacted

Livestock carcasses: disposal: composting.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Quick answers

Did CA AB 411 pass?

Yes. CA AB 411 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-11. Latest recorded action (2025-10-11): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 613, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA AB 411 about?

Existing law prohibits a dead animal hauler or any other person from transporting a dead animal to any place, other than to certain specified facilities or destinations, unless a certain waiver is granted by the State Veterinarian, as specified. Existing law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to adopt and revise minimum standards for solid waste handling, transfer, composting, transformation, and disposal, as prescribed. Pursuant to this authority, the department has adopted a regulation that prohibits the composting of unprocessed mammalian tissue except when received from certain sources. This bill would, notwithstanding those prohibitions, authorize any part of a livestock carcass resulting from a routine livestock mortality event or on-farm processing to be composted if certain requirements are met, including, among others, that the composting is conducted in accordance with best management practices for livestock composting adopted by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, as specified.

Who sponsors CA AB 411?

Papan is the primary sponsor of CA AB 411, joined by 1 cosponsor.

Description

Existing law prohibits a dead animal hauler or any other person from transporting a dead animal to any place, other than to certain specified facilities or destinations, unless a certain waiver is granted by the State Veterinarian, as specified. Existing law requires the Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery to adopt and revise minimum standards for solid waste handling, transfer, composting, transformation, and disposal, as prescribed. Pursuant to this authority, the department has adopted a regulation that prohibits the composting of unprocessed mammalian tissue except when received from certain sources. This bill would, notwithstanding those prohibitions, authorize any part of a livestock carcass resulting from a routine livestock mortality event or on-farm processing to be composted if certain requirements are met, including, among others, that the composting is conducted in accordance with best management practices for livestock composting adopted by the Secretary of Food and Agriculture, as specified.

Introduced
2025-02-24
Latest action
2025-10-11 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 613, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Papanauthor
  • Alaniscoauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-04

    Read first time. To print.

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  2. 2025-02-05

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 7.

  3. 2025-02-24

    Referred to Coms. on AGRI. and NAT. RES.

    referral-committee

  4. 2025-02-24

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. Read second time and amended.

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  5. 2025-02-25

    Re-referred to Com. on AGRI.

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  6. 2025-03-27

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.

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  7. 2025-04-02

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended.

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  8. 2025-04-03

    Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.

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  9. 2025-04-22

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 21).

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  10. 2025-04-23

    Read second time and amended.

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  11. 2025-04-24

    Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  12. 2025-05-07

    In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

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  13. 2025-05-23

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23).

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  14. 2025-05-27

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  15. 2025-06-02

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1826.)

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  16. 2025-06-03

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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  17. 2025-06-11

    Referred to Coms. on AGRI. and E.Q.

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  18. 2025-07-01

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on E.Q.

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  19. 2025-07-16

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 16).

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  20. 2025-07-17

    Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  21. 2025-08-18

    In committee: Referred to suspense file.

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  22. 2025-08-29

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  23. 2025-08-29

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29).

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  24. 2025-09-08

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2612.).

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  25. 2025-09-08

    In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

  26. 2025-09-09

    Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3105.).

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  27. 2025-09-16

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

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  28. 2025-10-11

    Approved by the Governor.

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  29. 2025-10-11

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 613, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

  • 02/04/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-04Compare
  • 02/24/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-02-24Compare
  • 04/02/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-04-02Compare
  • 04/23/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-04-23Compare
  • 07/17/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-07-17Compare
  • 09/11/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-11Compare
  • 10/11/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-11Compare
  • AB411Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources]

    2025-03-26 · pass · 8-0

    Member-level votes (8)
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Irwin: yes

  • Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-04-21 · pass · 14-0

    Member-level votes (14)
    • Alanis: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Schultz: yes

  • Do pass.

    2025-05-23 · pass · 14-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Calderon: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Sanchez: other

  • AB 411 Papan Assembly Third Reading

    2025-06-02 · pass · 79-0

    Member-level votes (79)
    • Rivas: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Gallagher: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Bains: yes

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Environmental Quality]

    2025-07-01 · pass · 5-0

    Member-level votes (5)
    • Alvarado-Gil: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Cortese: yes

  • Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-07-16 · pass · 8-0

    Member-level votes (8)
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Dahle: yes

  • Placed on suspense file

    2025-08-18 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Richardson: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Grayson: yes

  • Do pass

    2025-08-29 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Richardson: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes

  • 3rd Reading AB411 Papan et al. By Blakespear

    2025-09-08 · pass · 39-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Wahab: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Reyes: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Alvarado-Gil: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Stern: other

  • AB 411 Papan Concurrence in Senate Amendments

    2025-09-09 · pass · 77-0

    Member-level votes (80)
    • Addis: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Johnson: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Gallagher: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Mark González: other
    • Zbur: other
    • McKinnor: other

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