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California 20252026

AB 1486

Climate resiliency: research farms: grant program.

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Source: Open States / PluralUpdated 2026-09-12 13:12:55 UTC.

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Measure details

Jurisdiction
California
Session
20252026
Chamber
lower
Classification
bill
Subjects
Climateresiliency, grantprogram, researchfarms
Introduced / first action
2025-02-21 00:00:00

Source-supplied abstracts

The Safe Drinking Water, Wildfire Prevention, Drought Preparedness, and Clean Air Bond Act of 2024, approved by the voters as Proposition 4 at the November 5, 2024, statewide general election, authorized the issuance of bonds in the amount of $10,000,000,000 pursuant to the State General Obligation Bond Law to finance projects for safe drinking water, drought, flood, and water resilience, wildfire and forest resilience, coastal resilience, extreme heat mitigation, biodiversity protection and nature-based climate solutions, climate-smart, sustainable, and resilient farms, ranches, and working lands, park creation and outdoor access, and clean air programs. Of these funds, the act makes $300,000,000 available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for improving climate resilience and sustainability of agricultural lands, including, among other things, by making $15,000,000 available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to the State Department of Education, in consultation with the Department of Food and Agriculture, for purposes of providing grants to public postsecondary educational institutions that are designated as Agricultural Experiment Stations or Agricultural Research Institutes, to develop research farms to improve climate resiliency, as specified. Existing law authorizes a state agency to furnish services, materials, or equipment to, or perform work for, any other state agency upon terms and conditions and for the consideration as they may determine, and to enter into agreements for that purpose, subject to approval of the Director of General Services. Existing law requires a state agency that furnishes the services, materials, or equipment to, or performs the work for, the other state agency to compute charges in a manner approved by the Director of Finance. Existing law authorizes a state agency to provide for the advancing of funds, as provided, to defray those charges. This bill would authorize the State Department of Education to advance a payment for a contract or agreement made with the Department of Food and Agriculture pursuant to the research farm provisions of Proposition 4, described above, in the 2026–27 and 2027–28 fiscal years. The bill would exempt those contracts and agreements from the above-described requirement of approval by the Director of General Services. The bill would provide, for purposes of those contracts and agreements, that developing a research farm pursuant to the research farm provisions of Proposition 4 includes constructing a new research farm and maintaining, altering, or improving an existing research farm previously constructed by the Agricultural Experiment Station or the Agricultural Research Institute. This bill would provide, for purposes of the research farm grants, that Agricultural Experiment Stations and Agricultural Research Institutes are designated by the University of California and the California State University.

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Actions

  1. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.

    executive-receipt

  2. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0.).

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  3. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

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

    passage, reading-1, reading-3

  5. Ordered to special consent calendar.

  6. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

    reading-1, reading-2, reading-3

  7. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 13).

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  8. In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

    referral-committee

  9. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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

    amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee

  11. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 3). Re-referred to Com. on E.Q.

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  12. Referred to Coms. on ED. and E.Q.

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

    reading-1, referral-committee

  14. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3879.)

    passage, reading-1, reading-3

  15. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

    reading-1, reading-2, reading-3

  16. Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

    amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2

  17. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (January 22).

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  18. Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3806.)

  19. In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

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

    referral-committee

  21. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  22. Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES.

    referral-committee

  23. Read second time and amended.

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  24. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 26).

    amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee

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

    referral-committee

  26. Read first time.

    reading-1

  27. From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.

  28. Introduced. To print.

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