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Bill	California Retail Food Code.	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 defines "limited food preparation" for the purposes of the code. A violation of the California Retail Food Code is generally a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2524	California AB 2524 (20172018)	bill	California Retail Food Code.	enacted	Wood	8	27	6	2018-02-14	2018-09-18	openstates	ocd-bill/4655904b-f1f0-4570-b630-58f5d3c61f35	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2524	84b063cb27b6f00535aa4e697aaa32c52dd6ac1212c60b0d1e24e6b6f59d6938	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2524 (20172018) — California Retail Food Code.

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 defines "limited food preparation" for the purposes of the code. 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. 02/14/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/24/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/25/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/14/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/24/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/18/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2524 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/04/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2524 WOOD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2524 Wood By Cannella — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2524 WOOD Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Wood — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2018-03-05 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2018-04-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 17). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-24 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-05-23 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5437.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-06-07 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2018-06-21 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-25 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-08-06 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-09 From Consent Calendar.
• 2018-08-09 Ordered to third reading.
• 2018-08-14 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-15 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 5967.). 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 1. Page 7003.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2018-09-18 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-18 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 493, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4655904b-f1f0-4570-b630-58f5d3c61f35. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).