republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-384.md

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Bill	Food safety.	Existing law, the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law, prohibits the manufacture, packing, or holding of processed food unless in a food processing facility duly registered with the State Department of Public Health, upon payment of an annual registration fee. The law requires, until January 1, 2016, and in addition to the annual registration fee, every person engaged in the manufacture, packing, or holding of processed food, with specified exceptions, to pay a $100 food safety fee to be used by the department, upon appropriation, to assist in developing and implementing education and training programs related to food safety. The violation of these provisions is a crime.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 384	California AB 384 (20152016)	bill	Food safety.	enacted	Perea	4	19	7	2015-02-18	2015-10-04	openstates	ocd-bill/1432373c-e9e1-4e7d-a676-b6cd1ccc2f49	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB384	d6050847098f15d9e8ad891cf2a2b1b38e116c9634b1d626042e0789f4fe9181	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 384 (20152016) — Food safety.

Existing law, the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law, prohibits the manufacture, packing, or holding of processed food unless in a food processing facility duly registered with the State Department of Public Health, upon payment of an annual registration fee. The law requires, until January 1, 2016, and in addition to the annual registration fee, every person engaged in the manufacture, packing, or holding of processed food, with specified exceptions, to pay a $100 food safety fee to be used by the department, upon appropriation, to assist in developing and implementing education and training programs related to food safety. The violation of these provisions is a crime.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 10/04/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. AB384 (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/08/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 384 PEREA Assembly Third Reading — 78–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB384 Perea By Galgiani — 38–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Perea — primary (person)
• Gallagher — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2015-03-05 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-04-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-22 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-05-28 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-05-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 2. Page 1707.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-06-11 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2015-07-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-17 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-08-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 1. Page 2457.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-03 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2015-09-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-10-04 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-04 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 477, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1432373c-e9e1-4e7d-a676-b6cd1ccc2f49. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).