---
type: "Bill"
title: "Vietnamese rice cakes."
description: "Existing law, the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law, requires all manufacturers of Korean rice cakes, as defined, to place a label issued by the Korean Rice Cake Association Corporation on the Korean rice cake that indicates the date of manufacture, and requires the label to include a statement that the rice cake must be consumed within one day of manufacture. A violation of these provisions is a crime."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 969"
citation: "California SB 969 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Vietnamese rice cakes."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nguyen"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 26
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2016-02-08"
last_action: "2016-08-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/524292a5-d62e-49d1-960b-08652fb679d7"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB969"
source_hash: "2eb71bb607c7559a868116e9467d76d1ce7e4fc6b0921a267c21688b5ea84b27"
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 SB 969 (20152016) — Vietnamese rice cakes.

Existing law, the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law, requires all manufacturers of Korean rice cakes, as defined, to place a label issued by the Korean Rice Cake Association Corporation on the Korean rice cake that indicates the date of manufacture, and requires the label to include a statement that the rice cake must be consumed within one day of manufacture. A violation of these provisions is a crime.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/08/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB969&version=20150SB96999INT)
2. **03/15/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB969&version=20150SB96998AMD)
3. **04/12/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB969&version=20150SB96997AMD)
4. **05/27/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB969&version=20150SB96996AMD)
5. **06/21/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB969&version=20150SB96995AMD)
6. **08/25/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB969&version=20150SB96993CHP)
7. **SB969** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB969)
8. **08/12/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB969&version=20150SB96994ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 969 Nguyen Consent Calendar Second Day — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB969 Nguyen Concurrence — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nguyen — primary (person)
- Beall — coauthor (person)
- Campos — coauthor (person)
- Chang — coauthor (person)
- Chu — coauthor (person)
- Daly — coauthor (person)
- Harper — coauthor (person)
- Huff — coauthor (person)
- Kim — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — coauthor (person)
- Travis Allen — coauthor (person)
- Wagner — coauthor (person)
- Williams — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-08** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2016-02-09** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 10.
- **2016-02-18** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-15** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-03-17** Set for hearing March 30.
- **2016-03-28** March 30 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2016-03-30** Set for hearing April 6.
- **2016-04-11** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3445.) (April 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-04-12** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-15** Set for hearing April 25.
- **2016-04-25** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2016-04-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-09** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3799.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-05-10** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2016-05-16** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-27** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-20** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-06-21** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-29** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-30** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-04** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5719.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-04** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2016-08-11** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4866.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-16** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2016-08-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-08-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 193, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/524292a5-d62e-49d1-960b-08652fb679d7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).