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Bill	Food options: plant-based meals.	(1) Existing law requires a licensed general acute care hospital, acute psychiatric hospital, skilled nursing facility, intermediate care facility, special hospital, and nursing facility to employ a dietitian. Existing law imposes criminal sanctions for a violation of provisions, or willful or repeated violations of rules or regulations adopted pursuant to provisions, relating to these licensed facilities.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 1138	California SB 1138 (20172018)	bill	Food options: plant-based meals.	enacted	Skinner	7	31	10	2018-02-13	2018-09-18	openstates	ocd-bill/507b5554-e03f-4835-851e-6fce13ac1231	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1138	9fb8dadfb1eca57f6ffa90aaedd730abfb0ef6098fdc912c6dbd41bde999db4e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1138 (20172018) — Food options: plant-based meals.

(1) Existing law requires a licensed general acute care hospital, acute psychiatric hospital, skilled nursing facility, intermediate care facility, special hospital, and nursing facility to employ a dietitian. Existing law imposes criminal sanctions for a violation of provisions, or willful or repeated violations of rules or regulations adopted pursuant to provisions, relating to these licensed facilities.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/22/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/30/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/20/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/18/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB1138 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/05/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent SB1138 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 1138 Skinner Senate Third Reading By KALRA — 70–9 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 15–1 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB1138 Skinner Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Skinner — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-13 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2018-02-14 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
• 2018-02-22 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2018-03-22 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2018-04-04 Re-referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2018-04-05 Set for hearing April 17.
• 2018-04-06 Set for hearing April 25.
• 2018-04-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 4700.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-04-26 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 4852.) (April 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-04-30 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-05-04 Set for hearing May 14.
• 2018-05-14 May 14 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2018-05-18 Set for hearing May 25.
• 2018-05-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4304.) (May 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-29 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2018-05-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4454.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-31 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2018-06-07 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2018-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-08-08 August 8 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2018-08-16 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 1.) (August 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 70. Noes 9. Page 6801.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-29 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2018-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 6053.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2018-09-18 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-18 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 512, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/507b5554-e03f-4835-851e-6fce13ac1231. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).