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Bill	Food safety: cottage food operations.	Existing law, the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law (Sherman Law) , requires the State Department of Public Health to regulate the manufacture, sale, labeling, and advertising activities related to food, drugs, devices, and cosmetics in conformity with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The Sherman Law makes it unlawful to manufacture, sell, deliver, hold, or offer for sale any food that is misbranded. Food is misbranded if its labeling does not conform to specified federal labeling requirements regarding nutrition, nutrient content or health claims, and food allergens. Violation of this law is a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1616	California AB 1616 (20112012)	bill	Food safety: cottage food operations.	enacted	Gatto	11	35	8	2012-02-08	2012-09-21	openstates	ocd-bill/0fa55acb-1983-4c68-a0c2-ab1eb1fb8f48	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1616	729a9935baa3105344aa314a9243e9847bd07c455ba6bfcd1abeae4ac0c9b6f5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1616 (20112012) — Food safety: cottage food operations.

Existing law, the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law (Sherman Law) , requires the State Department of Public Health to regulate the manufacture, sale, labeling, and advertising activities related to food, drugs, devices, and cosmetics in conformity with the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. The Sherman Law makes it unlawful to manufacture, sell, deliver, hold, or offer for sale any food that is misbranded. Food is misbranded if its labeling does not conform to specified federal labeling requirements regarding nutrition, nutrient content or health claims, and food allergens. Violation of this law is a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/08/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/10/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/25/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/03/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/03/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/21/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/24/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/30/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/21/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB1616 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/05/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1616 GATTO Assembly Third Reading — 56–19 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1616 Gatto By DeSaulnier — 34–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1616 GATTO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 60–16 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gatto — primary (person)
• Correa — coauthor (person)
• DeSaulnier — coauthor (person)
• Fletcher — coauthor (person)
• Huffman — coauthor (person)
• Nestande — coauthor (person)
• V. Manuel Pérez — coauthor (person)
• Wieckowski — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-08 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-09 From printer. May be heard in committee March 10.
• 2012-02-23 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2012-03-27 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-04-09 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-04-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2012-04-24 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 17). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-25 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-26 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-05-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-07 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-05-16 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2012-05-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 25). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 19. Page 5042.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-06-07 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2012-07-02 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-07-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-06 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2012-08-20 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-21 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-30 Pursuant to Joint Rule 33.1,
• 2012-08-30 Joint Rule 61(b)(16) suspended. (Page 5015.)
• 2012-08-30 Read third time and amended. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-30 Senate Rule 29.3 suspended. (Page 5025.)
• 2012-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 5025.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2012-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 16. Page 6691.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:55 p.m.
• 2012-09-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 415, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0fa55acb-1983-4c68-a0c2-ab1eb1fb8f48. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).