CA SB 846
enactedLiens: harvested crops.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper
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Quick answers
Did CA SB 846 pass?
Yes. CA SB 846 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2025-07-14): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 57, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA SB 846 about?
Existing law extends to any person who, as an employee, and by their own labor, performs work harvesting or transporting harvested crops or farm products that are owned and grown or produced by a limited partnership, a lien upon the severed crops or farm products, or proceeds from their sale, for the value of the labor done, unless the owner who otherwise would be subject to a lien gives the Labor Commissioner a bond that is conditioned upon the payment of all wages found to be due and unpaid in connection with the operations, as specified. This bill would remove the condition on imposition of a lien, as described above, that the crops or farm products be owned and grown or produced by a limited partnership.
Who sponsors CA SB 846?
McNerney is the primary sponsor of CA SB 846.
Description
Existing law extends to any person who, as an employee, and by their own labor, performs work harvesting or transporting harvested crops or farm products that are owned and grown or produced by a limited partnership, a lien upon the severed crops or farm products, or proceeds from their sale, for the value of the labor done, unless the owner who otherwise would be subject to a lien gives the Labor Commissioner a bond that is conditioned upon the payment of all wages found to be due and unpaid in connection with the operations, as specified. This bill would remove the condition on imposition of a lien, as described above, that the crops or farm products be owned and grown or produced by a limited partnership.
- Introduced
- 2025-02-21
- Latest action
- 2025-07-14 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 57, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- McNerneyauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
Newest first
2025-07-14
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 57, Statutes of 2025.
became-law
2025-07-14
Approved by the Governor.
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2025-07-03
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:15 a.m.
executive-receipt
2025-06-23
In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
committee-passage
2025-06-23
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 2248.) Ordered to the Senate.
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-06-18
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
reading-1,reading-2
2025-06-17
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 17).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-05-29
Referred to Com. on JUD.
referral-committee
2025-05-15
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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2025-05-15
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 1090.) Ordered to the Assembly.
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-05-08
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
reading-1,reading-2
2025-05-07
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 1027.) (May 6).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-04-11
Set for hearing May 6.
2025-04-02
Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
referral-committee
2025-03-26
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
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2025-03-12
Referred to Com. on RLS.
referral-committee
2025-02-24
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
2025-02-24
Read first time.
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2025-02-21
Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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Votes
Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar
2025-05-06 · pass · 12-0
Member-level votes (13)
- Durazo: yes
- Niello: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Allen: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Stern: yes
- Laird: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Valladares: other
Consent Calendar 2nd
2025-05-15 · pass · 34-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Becker: yes
- Laird: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Grayson: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Allen: yes
- Limón: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Choi: yes
- Jones: yes
- Niello: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Stern: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Padilla: other
- Alvarado-Gil: other
- Grove: other
- Rubio: other
- Cervantes: other
- Reyes: other
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2025-06-17 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (12)
- Pacheco: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Papan: yes
- Macedo: other
SB 846 McNerney Consent Calendar Second Day
2025-06-23 · pass · 71-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Hart: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Berman: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Patel: yes
- Flora: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Krell: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Rogers: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Papan: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Fong: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Haney: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Lee: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Davies: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Soria: yes
- Chen: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Ta: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Solache: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Zbur: yes
- McKinnor: other
- Arambula: other
- Ellis: other
- Ahrens: other
- Ward: other
- Addis: other
- Bains: other
- Bauer-Kahan: other
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