republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/sb-677.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Retail food safety: nonlatex gloves."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 677"
citation: "California SB 677 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Retail food safety: nonlatex gloves."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 27
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-02-22"
last_action: "2019-09-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b4b81c5-0b8b-4b49-9746-a3128eefca1f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB677"
source_hash: "f08724f93c4e482fdba163eae03623ebe87af5bb39b5faf7d86f6ae8cc53d9d0"
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 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.

1. **02/22/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB677&version=20190SB67799INT)
2. **03/27/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB677&version=20190SB67798AMD)
3. **05/16/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB677&version=20190SB67797AMD)
4. **09/05/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB677&version=20190SB67795CHP)
5. **SB677** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB677)
6. **08/23/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB677&version=20190SB67796ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5b4b81c5-0b8b-4b49-9746-a3128eefca1f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).