This week the Association leadership and staff from the California Cotton Ginners and Growers Association (CCGGA) and the Western Tree Nut Association (WTNA) spent two days in Sacramento addressing critical regulatory and legislative matters. At the Capitol, the group met with Assemblyman Juan Alanis, Senator Shannon Grove, Assemblyman David Tangipa, Assemblywoman Alexandra Macedo, Assemblywoman Cecilia Aguiar-Curry, Assemblywoman Diane Papan, Assemblyman Juan Carrillo, Assemblywoman Heather Hadwick, Assemblywoman Stephanie Nguyen, Assemblywoman Esmeralda Soria, Senator Christopher Cabaldon, Senator Jerry McNerney, Assemblywoman Rhodesia Ransom, Senator Susan Rubio Assemblywoman Blanca Rubio, Assemblyman John Harabedian, and the staffs of Assemblywoman Lori Wilson, Speaker Robert Rivas, Senator Melissa Hurtado, and Assemblyman Heath Flora. The group focused on opposing AB 1603 (Schulz) which would ban pesticides containing PFAS, AB 2447 (Bauer-Kahan) which would scrap the current Irrigated Lands Regulatory Program (ILRP) for a state enforced program that would be grower specific with stricter regulations and higher fees, AB 1777 (Garcia) that give the state authority to establish a statewide Indirect Source Rule (ISR) that would indirectly mandate electric trucks at all warehouses including ag processing facilities including cotton gins, nut hullers and processors, AB 2646 (Krell) a bill that would increase minimum wages for farmworkers, and incentive funding requests for ag burning alternatives and the FARMER tractor replacement program. The group also met with the California Department of Pesticide Regulation (CDPR), the California Air Resources Board (CARB) and the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA). With CDPR the group discussed sulfoxaflor, paraquat, plinazolin, new endangered species act (ESA) requirements on labels, and proposed regulations on anticoagulants and treated seeds, and sustainable pest management (SPM). Representing CDPR was Director Karen Morrison and Chief Deputy Director Leia Bailey. The CARB meeting focused on proposed Tier 5 regulations and the NOX shortfall discussions. Chief Deputy Director Christopher Gumpler and Chief of the Mobile Source Control Division Michelle Buffington represented CARB at this meeting. Finally, the group met with CDFA Secretary Karen Ross and discussed ag burn alternatives funding, rats, cottonseed bug, cotton jassid, and efforts to expand the navel orangeworm sterile insect technology program. Representing the Association was Roger A. Isom, President/CEO; Priscilla Rodriguez, Assistant Vice President; and Christopher McGlothlin, Assistant Vice President of Technical Services.