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type: "Bill"
title: "Food donations."
description: "Existing law specifies that a food facility that donates any food that is fit for human consumption at the time it was donated to a nonprofit charitable organization or a food bank is not liable for any damage or injury resulting from the consumption of the donated food, unless the injury resulted from negligence or a willful act in the preparation or handling of the donated food."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1219"
citation: "California AB 1219 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Food donations."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eggman"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 36
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2017-02-17"
last_action: "2017-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/45f23d47-c824-4570-aa1f-1663483a1ded"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1219"
source_hash: "0e160ed5285d505231fa7a9121e5e1397fde8673119029d9b4d67ed7b585a070"
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 AB 1219 (20172018) — Food donations.
Existing law specifies that a food facility that donates any food that is fit for human consumption at the time it was donated to a nonprofit charitable organization or a food bank is not liable for any damage or injury resulting from the consumption of the donated food, unless the injury resulted from negligence or a willful act in the preparation or handling of the donated food.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/17/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1219&version=20170AB121999INT)
2. **03/21/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1219&version=20170AB121998AMD)
3. **04/03/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1219&version=20170AB121997AMD)
4. **05/01/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1219&version=20170AB121996AMD)
5. **06/13/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1219&version=20170AB121995AMD)
6. **07/18/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1219&version=20170AB121994AMD)
7. **09/05/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1219&version=20170AB121993AMD)
8. **10/09/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1219&version=20170AB121991CHP)
9. **AB1219** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1219)
10. **09/15/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1219&version=20170AB121992ENR)
## Votes
- AB 1219 EGGMAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **790** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **110** (pass) · lower
- AB 1219 EGGMAN Assembly Third Reading — **740** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1219 — **380** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1219 Eggman et al. By Dodd — **390** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **160** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **90** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Eggman — primary (person)
- Anderson — coauthor (person)
- Chiu — coauthor (person)
- Chávez — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Dodd — coauthor (person)
- Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)
- Salas — principal coauthor (person)
- Waldron — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2017-03-09** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-03-22** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-27** Coauthors revised.
- **2017-03-30** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (March 28). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-04-03** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-04-04** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2017-04-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 26). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-04-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-01** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1305.) `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-05-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1377.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-05-18** Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-06-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-07-17** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 11). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2017-07-18** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2017-08-21** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2017-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-08-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2230.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2017-08-28** Ordered to the Senate.
- **2017-08-28** In Senate. Held at Desk.
- **2017-09-05** Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-09-05** Ordered to third reading.
- **2017-09-05** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-09-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2705.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 14 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2017-09-13** Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Page 3254.)
- **2017-09-13** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3302.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-09-21** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2017-10-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-10-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 619, Statutes of 2017.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/45f23d47-c824-4570-aa1f-1663483a1ded`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).