republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/sb-818.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Food labeling: olive oil."
description: "Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to enforce various provisions of existing law regarding the manufacture, blending, production, and sale of olive oil. Existing law makes the violation of these provisions a crime. Existing law defines olive oil to mean the edible oil obtained solely from the fruit of the olive tree to the exclusion of oils obtained using solvents or reesterification processes and of any mixture with oils derived of other kinds except in the making of flavored olive oil. Existing law also defines olive oil grades and provides that olive oil grades are to be in a specified order."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "SB 818"
citation: "California SB 818 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Food labeling: olive oil."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wolk"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2011-02-18"
last_action: "2011-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9966d576-eb58-4e1b-b483-d72bd824f0c2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB818"
source_hash: "0a1274dab25be50737d0ecfd7ccfb333dae61b6656e024feb575bc44d834cbc0"
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 818 (20112012) — Food labeling: olive oil.

Existing law requires the State Department of Public Health to enforce various provisions of existing law regarding the manufacture, blending, production, and sale of olive oil. Existing law makes the violation of these provisions a crime. Existing law defines olive oil to mean the edible oil obtained solely from the fruit of the olive tree to the exclusion of oils obtained using solvents or reesterification processes and of any mixture with oils derived of other kinds except in the making of flavored olive oil. Existing law also defines olive oil grades and provides that olive oil grades are to be in a specified order.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB818&version=20110SB81899INT)
2. **03/30/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB818&version=20110SB81898AMD)
3. **06/13/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB818&version=20110SB81897AMD)
4. **10/07/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB818&version=20110SB81895CHP)
5. **SB818** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB818)
6. **09/01/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB818&version=20110SB81896ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB818 Wolk Concurrence — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 818 Wolk Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #2 — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wolk — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-18** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2011-02-19** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 21.
- **2011-03-10** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-30** Set for hearing April 6.
- **2011-03-30** 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`
- **2011-04-07** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 581.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-13** Set for hearing May 2.
- **2011-05-03** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2011-05-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-04** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2011-05-09** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 907.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-05-09** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2011-05-27** Referred to Com. on AGRI. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-13** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-06-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-08-18** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 17). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-08-25** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2596.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-08-25** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2011-08-30** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2157.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-07** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2011-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-10-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 567, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9966d576-eb58-4e1b-b483-d72bd824f0c2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).