---
type: "Bill"
title: "The California Food Safety Act."
description: "Existing law provides for the regulation of the safety of food products, including adulterated and misbranded food, wholesale food, and food in retail food facilities."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 418"
citation: "California AB 418 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["The California Food Safety Act"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gabriel"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 28
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2023-02-02"
last_action: "2023-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f2a51462-bf6a-4f49-927b-a4b6afa9eb0b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB418"
source_hash: "7dd8c3afde7161216331073d5c0fc198e91eee5a8953ca69402fd6638d3569ad"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 418 (20232024) — The California Food Safety Act.

Existing law provides for the regulation of the safety of food products, including adulterated and misbranded food, wholesale food, and food in retail food facilities.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/02/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB418&version=20230AB41899INT)
2. **04/13/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB418&version=20230AB41898AMD)
3. **05/26/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB418&version=20230AB41897AMD)
4. **07/03/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB418&version=20230AB41896AMD)
5. **09/01/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB418&version=20230AB41895AMD)
6. **10/07/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB418&version=20230AB41893CHP)
7. **AB418** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB418)
8. **09/14/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB418&version=20230AB41894ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB418 Gabriel et al. By Menjivar — **33–3** (pass) · upper
- AB 418 Gabriel Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **65–6** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Environmental Quality] — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- AB 418 Gabriel Assembly Third Reading — **54–12** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials] — **12–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **12–3** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gabriel — primary (person)
- McCarty — coauthor (person)
- Weber — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — author (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2023-02-02** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-03** From printer. May be heard in committee March 5.
- **2023-02-17** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (April 11). Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-17** Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-03** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-05-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (May 3). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 12. Page 1551.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-24** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 28). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-03** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-08-14** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2023-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-01** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 3. Page 2564.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 13 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2023-09-12** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3228.)
- **2023-09-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 65. Noes 6. Page 3243.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2023-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-10-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 328, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f2a51462-bf6a-4f49-927b-a4b6afa9eb0b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).