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CA SB 846

enacted

Liens: harvested crops.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Quick answers

Did CA SB 846 pass?

Yes. CA SB 846 has been enacted into law as of 2025-07-14. 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

Subjects

Sponsors

  • McNerneyauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-21

    Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

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  2. 2025-02-24

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.

  3. 2025-02-24

    Read first time.

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  4. 2025-03-12

    Referred to Com. on RLS.

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  5. 2025-03-26

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

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  6. 2025-04-02

    Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  7. 2025-04-11

    Set for hearing May 6.

  8. 2025-05-07

    From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0. Page 1027.) (May 6).

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  9. 2025-05-08

    Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

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  10. 2025-05-15

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 1090.) Ordered to the Assembly.

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  11. 2025-05-15

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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  12. 2025-05-29

    Referred to Com. on JUD.

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  13. 2025-06-17

    From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 17).

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  14. 2025-06-18

    Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

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  15. 2025-06-23

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 2248.) Ordered to the Senate.

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  16. 2025-06-23

    In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

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  17. 2025-07-03

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:15 a.m.

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  18. 2025-07-14

    Approved by the Governor.

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  19. 2025-07-14

    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 57, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

  • 02/21/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-21Compare
  • 03/26/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-03-26Compare
  • 06/25/25 - Enrolled — 2025-06-25Compare
  • 07/14/25 - Chaptered — 2025-07-14Compare
  • SB846Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

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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