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Bill	Limited service charitable feeding operation.	Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, establishes uniform health and sanitation standards for retail food facilities for regulation by the State Department of Public Health, and requires local enforcement agencies to enforce those provisions. Existing law defines "food facility" as an operation that stores, prepares, packages, serves, vends, or otherwise provides food for human consumption at the retail level, as specified. Existing law regulates temporary food facilities and nonprofit charitable temporary food facilities, as specified. Existing law exempts, among others, a nonprofit association that gives or sells food to its members and guests and not to the general public, as specified, from the definition of food facility. A violation of the California Retail Food Code is generally a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2178	California AB 2178 (20172018)	bill	Limited service charitable feeding operation.	enacted	Limón	10	29	6	2018-02-12	2018-09-18	openstates	ocd-bill/cd75e375-0b7c-4eca-80d5-941684d3d6e2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2178	d9964ee5e5677edcb7729866cc4af29db59b2b77eaaad909c68160bb617875bc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2178 (20172018) — Limited service charitable feeding operation.

Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, establishes uniform health and sanitation standards for retail food facilities for regulation by the State Department of Public Health, and requires local enforcement agencies to enforce those provisions. Existing law defines "food facility" as an operation that stores, prepares, packages, serves, vends, or otherwise provides food for human consumption at the retail level, as specified. Existing law regulates temporary food facilities and nonprofit charitable temporary food facilities, as specified. Existing law exempts, among others, a nonprofit association that gives or sells food to its members and guests and not to the general public, as specified, from the definition of food facility. A violation of the California Retail Food Code is generally a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/12/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/02/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/20/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/03/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/06/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/21/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/24/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/18/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB2178 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/04/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2178 LIMÓN Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2178 Limón By Hill — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2178 LIMÓN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Limón — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-12 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-13 From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
• 2018-03-01 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2018-04-02 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2018-04-03 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2018-04-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-04-18 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 18). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-04-19 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4899.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-04-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-05-10 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2018-05-29 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2018-06-20 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
• 2018-07-02 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-07-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-08-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-06 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-21 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5968.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2018-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6995.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-18 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-18 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 489, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cd75e375-0b7c-4eca-80d5-941684d3d6e2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).