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Bill	Retail food: reusable containers: multiuse utensils.	Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, provides for the regulation of health and sanitation standards for retail food facilities, as defined, by the State Department of Public Health. Under existing law, local health agencies are primarily responsible for enforcing the California Retail Food Code, and a person who violates any provision of the code is guilty of a misdemeanor, except as otherwise provided.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 619	California AB 619 (20192020)	bill	Retail food: reusable containers: multiuse utensils.	enacted	Chiu	6	21	5	2019-02-15	2019-07-12	openstates	ocd-bill/b37cc43d-9020-46fc-9fe8-1fc71154a557	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB619	7f15e81dc4574b2bf4265fa6013b210876361731ab816ff2ec90b2b6d0cb8606	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 619 (20192020) — Retail food: reusable containers: multiuse utensils.

Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, provides for the regulation of health and sanitation standards for retail food facilities, as defined, by the State Department of Public Health. Under existing law, local health agencies are primarily responsible for enforcing the California Retail Food Code, and a person who violates any provision of the code is guilty of a misdemeanor, except as otherwise provided.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/07/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/20/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/12/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB619 (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/03/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar AB619 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 619 Chiu Consent Calendar Second Day — 72–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chiu — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2019-03-07 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-03-07 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
• 2019-03-11 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-03-20 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
• 2019-03-21 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-03-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-03 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-04-04 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 1190.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-04-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-04-24 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2019-06-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-24 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-06-25 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-07-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1877.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-07-01 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2019-07-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-07-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-07-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 93, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b37cc43d-9020-46fc-9fe8-1fc71154a557. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).