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type: "Bill"
title: "Microenterprise home kitchen operations."
description: "(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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 377"
citation: "California AB 377 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Microenterprise home kitchen operations."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eduardo Garcia"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 27
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-02-05"
last_action: "2019-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bb3f7809-af9e-4525-8b71-212b83551c92"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB377"
source_hash: "58f5626fa76893d0e4b35a67949960a3ff9fa38383a3ec0b56819fdd369a2915"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["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](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB377&version=20190AB37799INT)
2. **03/11/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB377&version=20190AB37798AMD)
3. **03/25/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB377&version=20190AB37797AMD)
4. **05/20/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB377&version=20190AB37796AMD)
5. **08/21/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB377&version=20190AB37795AMD)
6. **10/07/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB377&version=20190AB37793CHP)
7. **AB377** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB377)
8. **09/10/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB377&version=20190AB37794ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **72** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **131** (pass) · lower
- AB 377 Eduardo Garcia Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **743** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB377 Eduardo Garcia By Hurtado Urgency Clause — **308** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **180** (pass) · lower
- AB 377 Eduardo Garcia Third Reading Urgency — **740** (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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bb3f7809-af9e-4525-8b71-212b83551c92`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).