20250AB__275999INT INTRODUCED 2026-02-20 2025 AB INT Introduced by Assembly Member Macedo LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Macedo

An act to amend

Section of the Food and Agricultural Code, relating to pest control. pest control Agricultural pest control advisers: refusal, revocation, or suspension of licenses. Existing law prohibits a person from acting, or offering to act, as an agricultural pest control adviser without first having secured a license from the Director of Pesticide Regulation, except as specified. Existing law provides that cause for refusal, revocation, or suspension of that license includes, among other things, failure or refusal to comply with specified provisions of law.

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that latter provision. MAJORITY NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section of the Food and Agricultural Code is amended to read: 12023. An agricultural pest control adviser license may be refused or may be revoked or suspended by the director as necessary to carry out the purposes of this division. Cause for refusal, revocation, or suspension shall include, but shall not be limited to, all of the following: (

a) Failure to put a recommendation in writing. (

b) The making of false or fraudulent statements in any written recommendation. (

c) Failure or refusal to comply with this chapter, or any other regulation adopted by the agricultural commissioner. (

d) Failure or refusal to comply with this division or Division 7 (commencing with

Section 12500) relating to pesticides or a regulation of the department adopted pursuant to those provisions. (

e) Failure to qualify by examination in at least one of the categories in

Section 12022. (

f) Unprofessional conduct, as defined in

Section 12023.5.