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Bill	Food safety: food handlers.	The California Retail Food Code provides for the regulation of health and sanitation standards for retail food facilities by the State Department of Public Health. Local health agencies are primarily responsible for enforcing this law. Violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 303	California SB 303 (20112012)	bill	Food safety: food handlers.	enacted	Padilla	9	26	6	2011-02-14	2011-09-06	openstates	ocd-bill/9d46447a-9544-4cda-953c-254fb2f0b19a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB303	a574fddb1d6c6bec0de4201818f764fc13d220a89d884f682f46d9ac69fcd5a7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 303 (20112012) — Food safety: food handlers.

The California Retail Food Code provides for the regulation of health and sanitation standards for retail food facilities by the State Department of Public Health. Local health agencies are primarily responsible for enforcing this law. Violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/17/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/29/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/03/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/20/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/11/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/06/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB303 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/24/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar 2nd — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 303 Padilla Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB303 Padilla Urgency Clause Concurrence — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Padilla — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-14 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2011-02-15 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
• 2011-02-24 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2011-03-04 Set for hearing March 23.
• 2011-03-17 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-03-25 From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 452.) (March 23). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-03-29 Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-03-30 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. referral-committee
• 2011-04-01 Set for hearing April 11.
• 2011-04-11 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
• 2011-04-12 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-04-14 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 654.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-04-14 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2011-04-28 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2011-06-03 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-06-16 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (June 13). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-20 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-07-11 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-07-13 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (July 13). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-14 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-18 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2454.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-08-18 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2011-08-22 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2001.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2011-09-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-09-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 233, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9d46447a-9544-4cda-953c-254fb2f0b19a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).