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type: "Bill"
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title: "Food: sale."
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description: "Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, establishes uniform health and sanitation standards for retail food facilities and provides for the enforcement of those standards by local health agencies and by the State Department of Public Health, as specified. Under existing law, unless a local jurisdiction adopts an ordinance prohibiting the activity, a community food producer or gleaner may sell or provide whole uncut fruits or vegetables, or unrefrigerated shell eggs, directly to the public, to a permitted restaurant, or a cottage food operation if the community food producer meets specified requirements. Existing law authorizes a local city or county health enforcement office to require a community food producer or gleaner to register with the city or county to provide specified information. A violation of the code is a crime."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20152016"
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identifier: "AB 234"
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citation: "California AB 234 (20152016)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Food: sale."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Gordon"]
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 21
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2015-02-04"
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last_action: "2015-10-08"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3eb4860b-845a-494b-97d0-8c6cf4cd03a9"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB234"
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source_hash: "03f818ea195feedfa3161ee6134dcd9bccc9825a36228ac38885e7cfef77d03c"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 234 (20152016) — Food: sale.
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Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, establishes uniform health and sanitation standards for retail food facilities and provides for the enforcement of those standards by local health agencies and by the State Department of Public Health, as specified. Under existing law, unless a local jurisdiction adopts an ordinance prohibiting the activity, a community food producer or gleaner may sell or provide whole uncut fruits or vegetables, or unrefrigerated shell eggs, directly to the public, to a permitted restaurant, or a cottage food operation if the community food producer meets specified requirements. Existing law authorizes a local city or county health enforcement office to require a community food producer or gleaner to register with the city or county to provide specified information. A violation of the code is a crime.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/04/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB234&version=20150AB23499INT)
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2. **06/09/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB234&version=20150AB23498AMD)
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3. **09/04/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB234&version=20150AB23497AMD)
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4. **10/08/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB234&version=20150AB23495CHP)
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5. **AB234** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB234)
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6. **09/16/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB234&version=20150AB23496ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **16–1** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading AB234 Gordon By Wolk — **27–13** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 234 GORDON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **63–15** (pass) · lower
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- AB 234 GORDON Assembly Third Reading — **62–10** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Gordon — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2015-02-04** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2015-02-05** From printer. May be heard in committee March 7.
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- **2015-03-02** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-04-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 1.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2015-04-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2015-04-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-05-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 10. Page 1373.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-05-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2015-05-21** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-06-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-06-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2015-07-06** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
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- **2015-07-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-09-04** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-09-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-09-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 13. Page 2693.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-09-10** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
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- **2015-09-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 63. Noes 15. Page 3135.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
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- **2015-09-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
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- **2015-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2015-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 616, Statutes of 2015.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3eb4860b-845a-494b-97d0-8c6cf4cd03a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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