--- type: "Bill" title: "Food delivery platforms: customer service." description: "Existing law imposes various business practice restrictions on a food delivery platform, defined as an online business that acts as an intermediary between consumers and multiple food facilities to submit food and beverage orders from a consumer to a participating food facility, and to arrange for, or to complete, the delivery of the order, as prescribed." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20252026" identifier: "AB 578" citation: "California AB 578 (20252026)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Fooddeliveryplatforms", "customerservice"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Bauer-Kahan"] version_count: 9 action_count: 22 vote_count: 6 first_action: "2025-02-12" last_action: "2025-10-06" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6553a22-906b-48e2-991f-34f4e1b1cd1e" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578" source_hash: "85fbd7675f95a32a9a53311b8c53520a2e58c30076756137539a915a08894a50" 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 578 (20252026) — Food delivery platforms: customer service. Existing law imposes various business practice restrictions on a food delivery platform, defined as an online business that acts as an intermediary between consumers and multiple food facilities to submit food and beverage orders from a consumer to a participating food facility, and to arrange for, or to complete, the delivery of the order, as prescribed. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/12/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578&version=20250AB57899INT) 2. **03/20/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578&version=20250AB57898AMD) 3. **05/12/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578&version=20250AB57897AMD) 4. **06/12/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578&version=20250AB57896AMD) 5. **07/03/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578&version=20250AB57895AMD) 6. **07/16/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578&version=20250AB57894AMD) 7. **10/06/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578&version=20250AB57892CHP) 8. **AB578** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578) 9. **09/08/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578&version=20250AB57893ENR) ## Votes - Do pass as amended. — **14–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass as amended — **7–1** (pass) · upper - 3rd Reading AB578 Bauer-Kahan By Durazo — **28–6** (pass) · upper - AB 578 Bauer-Kahan Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **66–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Business, Professions and Economic Development] — **11–0** (pass) · upper - AB 578 Bauer-Kahan Assembly Third Reading — **63–2** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Bauer-Kahan — primary (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2025-02-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1` - **2025-02-13** From printer. May be heard in committee March 15. - **2025-02-24** Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee` - **2025-03-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (March 18). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage` - **2025-03-20** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-03-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-05-12** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2025-05-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 2. Page 1584.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2025-05-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1` - **2025-05-28** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and B. P. & E.D. `referral-committee` - **2025-06-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee` - **2025-06-23** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. - **2025-07-02** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on B. P. & E.D. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 1). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee` - **2025-07-03** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee` - **2025-07-15** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July 14). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage` - **2025-07-16** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-09-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 6. Page 2458.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2025-09-04** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. - **2025-09-04** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 2931.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m. - **2025-10-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2025-10-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 341, Statutes of 2025. `became-law` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f6553a22-906b-48e2-991f-34f4e1b1cd1e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).