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Bill	Microenterprise home kitchen operations.	(1) The California Retail Food Code (code) authorizes the governing body of a city, county, or city and county, by ordinance or resolution, to permit microenterprise home kitchen operations if certain conditions are met. The code requires a microenterprise home kitchen operation, as a restricted food service facility, to meet specified food safety standards. A violation of the code is generally a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 377	California AB 377 (20192020)	bill	Microenterprise home kitchen operations.	enacted	Eduardo Garcia	8	27	6	2019-02-05	2019-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/bb3f7809-af9e-4525-8b71-212b83551c92	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB377	58f5626fa76893d0e4b35a67949960a3ff9fa38383a3ec0b56819fdd369a2915	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 377 (20192020) — Microenterprise home kitchen operations.

(1) The California Retail Food Code (code) authorizes the governing body of a city, county, or city and county, by ordinance or resolution, to permit microenterprise home kitchen operations if certain conditions are met. The code requires a microenterprise home kitchen operation, as a restricted food service facility, to meet specified food safety standards. A violation of the code is generally a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/05/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/11/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/25/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/20/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/21/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/07/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB377 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/10/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 377 Eduardo Garcia Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 74–3 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB377 Eduardo Garcia By Hurtado Urgency Clause — 30–8 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 377 Eduardo Garcia Third Reading Urgency — 74–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Eduardo Garcia — primary (person)
• Mayes — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-05 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-06 From printer. May be heard in committee March 8.
• 2019-02-15 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-03-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-12 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-03-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-26 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-04-02 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 1.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 Coauthors revised.
• 2019-04-24 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-04-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-02 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1469.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-16 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-05-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-27 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2019-08-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction
• 2019-08-26 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-05 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 8. Page 2571.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-06 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-09 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 3. Page 3152.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 536, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bb3f7809-af9e-4525-8b71-212b83551c92. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).