California Retail Food Code: microenterprise home kitchen operations.
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 these 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 exempts, among others, a private home, including a registered or permitted cottage food operation, from the definition of food facility. A violation of the California Retail Food Code is generally a misdemeanor.
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California Legislature
20172018
AB 626
California AB 626 (20172018)
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California Retail Food Code: microenterprise home kitchen operations.
California AB 626 (20172018) — California Retail Food Code: microenterprise home kitchen operations.
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 these 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 exempts, among others, a private home, including a registered or permitted cottage food operation, 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.
AB 626 GARCIA, E. Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
AB 626 GARCIA, E. Assembly Third Reading — 66–1 (pass) · lower
Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper
Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
3rd Reading AB626 Eduardo Garcia et al. By Lara — 36–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Eduardo Garcia — primary (person)
Arambula — author (person)
Lara — coauthor (person)
Wiener — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2017-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2017-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
2017-03-23 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2017-03-23 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
2017-03-27 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2017-04-06 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
2017-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2017-04-18 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2017-05-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
2017-05-02 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
2017-05-03 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
2017-05-24 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
2017-05-26 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2018-01-18 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (January 18). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
2018-01-22 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
2018-01-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2018-01-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 1. Page 3863.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
2018-01-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2018-03-15 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and JUD. referral-committee
2018-04-02 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
2018-05-09 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
2018-06-11 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2018-06-13 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
2018-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2018-06-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
2018-06-25 Withdrawn from committee.
2018-06-25 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
2018-08-06 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
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
2018-08-13 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
2018-08-17 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2018-08-17 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
2018-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 5908.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
2018-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.