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Bill	Vietnamese rice cakes.	Existing law, the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law, requires all manufacturers of Korean rice cakes, as defined, to place a label issued by the Korean Rice Cake Association Corporation on the Korean rice cake that indicates the date of manufacture, and requires the label to include a statement that the rice cake must be consumed within one day of manufacture. A violation of these provisions is a crime.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 969	California SB 969 (20152016)	bill	Vietnamese rice cakes.	enacted	Nguyen	8	26	6	2016-02-08	2016-08-25	openstates	ocd-bill/524292a5-d62e-49d1-960b-08652fb679d7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB969	2eb71bb607c7559a868116e9467d76d1ce7e4fc6b0921a267c21688b5ea84b27	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 969 (20152016) — Vietnamese rice cakes.

Existing law, the Sherman Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Law, requires all manufacturers of Korean rice cakes, as defined, to place a label issued by the Korean Rice Cake Association Corporation on the Korean rice cake that indicates the date of manufacture, and requires the label to include a statement that the rice cake must be consumed within one day of manufacture. A violation of these provisions is a crime.

Version chain

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

1. 02/08/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/15/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/12/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/27/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/21/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/25/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB969 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/12/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 969 Nguyen Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB969 Nguyen Concurrence — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Nguyen — primary (person)
• Beall — coauthor (person)
• Campos — coauthor (person)
• Chang — coauthor (person)
• Chu — coauthor (person)
• Daly — coauthor (person)
• Harper — coauthor (person)
• Huff — coauthor (person)
• Kim — coauthor (person)
• McCarty — coauthor (person)
• Travis Allen — coauthor (person)
• Wagner — coauthor (person)
• Williams — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-08 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2016-02-09 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 10.
• 2016-02-18 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2016-03-15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-17 Set for hearing March 30.
• 2016-03-28 March 30 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-03-30 Set for hearing April 6.
• 2016-04-11 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3445.) (April 6). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-04-12 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-15 Set for hearing April 25.
• 2016-04-25 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2016-04-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3799.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-10 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2016-05-16 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2016-05-27 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-20 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-06-21 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-29 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (June 29). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-30 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-04 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5719.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-04 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2016-08-11 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4866.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2016-08-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-08-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 193, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/524292a5-d62e-49d1-960b-08652fb679d7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).