Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, establishes uniform health and sanitation standards for retail food facilities and delegates the enforcement of those standards to the State Department of Public Health and local health agencies. Existing law requires that food employees minimize bare hand and arm contact with nonprepackaged food that is in a ready-to-eat form. Existing law requires food employees to use utensils, including gloves, in certain situations, such as assembling ready-to-eat food. Existing law requires food employees to wear single-use gloves when contacting food and food-contact surfaces under certain conditions, including if an employee has cuts, sores, or rashes. A violation of these provisions is punishable by a fine of at least $25 and up to $1,000, or by imprisonment in a county jail for up to 6 months, or both.
California SB 677 (20192020) — Retail food safety: nonlatex gloves.
Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, establishes uniform health and sanitation standards for retail food facilities and delegates the enforcement of those standards to the State Department of Public Health and local health agencies. Existing law requires that food employees minimize bare hand and arm contact with nonprepackaged food that is in a ready-to-eat form. Existing law requires food employees to use utensils, including gloves, in certain situations, such as assembling ready-to-eat food. Existing law requires food employees to wear single-use gloves when contacting food and food-contact surfaces under certain conditions, including if an employee has cuts, sores, or rashes. A violation of these provisions is punishable by a fine of at least $25 and up to $1,000, or by imprisonment in a county jail for up to 6 months, or both.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
SB 677 Allen Senate Third Reading By Aguiar-Curry — 70–0 (pass) · lower
3rd Reading — 38–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 13–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Allen — primary (person)
Dodd — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2019-02-22 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
2019-02-25 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
2019-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
2019-03-14 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
2019-03-27 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
2019-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2019-04-09 Set for hearing April 24.
2019-04-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 849.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2019-05-03 Set for hearing May 13.
2019-05-13 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
2019-05-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2019-05-16 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
2019-05-16 Ordered to second reading.
2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2019-05-21 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1193.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
2019-05-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2019-05-30 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2019-06-18 June 18 hearing postponed by committee.
2019-07-10 Coauthors revised.
2019-07-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2019-08-14 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2019-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2019-08-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 2810.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
2019-08-22 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
2019-08-27 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2019-09-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2019-09-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 254, Statutes of 2019.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5b4b81c5-0b8b-4b49-9746-a3128eefca1f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).