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Bill	Food labeling: quality and safety dates.	Existing law provides that all food labeling regulations and any amendments to those regulations adopted pursuant to the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act shall be the food labeling regulations of this state, and authorizes the State Department of Public Health to adopt additional food labeling regulations.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 954	California AB 954 (20172018)	bill appropriation	Food labeling: quality and safety dates.	enacted	Chiu	7	29	5	2017-02-16	2017-10-14	openstates	ocd-bill/7f136d11-fe6f-4b04-ae4b-275360912031	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB954	d95821ce3732de190b0fd5bcafad7d1c6b6ec96e86f07d7f79e3163119a554f2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 954 (20172018) — Food labeling: quality and safety dates.

Existing law provides that all food labeling regulations and any amendments to those regulations adopted pursuant to the federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act shall be the food labeling regulations of this state, and authorizes the State Department of Public Health to adopt additional food labeling regulations.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/27/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/04/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/29/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/14/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB954 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/15/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — 3–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 954 CHIU Assembly Third Reading — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 954 CHIU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB954 Chiu By Dodd — 33–6 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chiu — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2017-03-02 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2017-03-27 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2017-03-30 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2017-04-06 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-05-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-08 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-05-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-05-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1831.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-08 Referred to Coms. on AGRI. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2017-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-06-29 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
• 2017-07-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-17 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 6. Page 2699.). 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 3296.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2017-10-14 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-14 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 787, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7f136d11-fe6f-4b04-ae4b-275360912031. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).