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 (MHKO) if certain conditions are met. Existing law requires an MHKO, as a restricted food service facility, to meet specified food safety standards, including, among others things, that the food is prepared, cooked, and served on the same day. Under existing law, the food preparation is limited to no more than 30 individual meals per day, or the approximate equivalent of meal components when sold separately, and no more than 60 individual meals, or the approximate equivalent of meal components when sold separately, per week. Existing law also requires an MHKO to have no more than $50,000 in verifiable gross annual sales, as adjusted annually for inflation. A violation of the code is a misdemeanor.
California AB 1325 (20232024) — Microenterprise home kitchen operations.
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 (MHKO) if certain conditions are met. Existing law requires an MHKO, as a restricted food service facility, to meet specified food safety standards, including, among others things, that the food is prepared, cooked, and served on the same day. Under existing law, the food preparation is limited to no more than 30 individual meals per day, or the approximate equivalent of meal components when sold separately, and no more than 60 individual meals, or the approximate equivalent of meal components when sold separately, per week. Existing law also requires an MHKO to have no more than $50,000 in verifiable gross annual sales, as adjusted annually for inflation. A violation of the code is a misdemeanor.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
AB 1325 Waldron Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 15–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Waldron — primary (person)
Garcia — author (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2023-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2023-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
2023-03-02 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2023-04-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2023-04-05 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2023-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2023-04-27 Withdrawn from committee.
2023-04-27 Ordered to second reading.
2023-05-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2023-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1685.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
2023-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2023-05-31 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
2023-06-08 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2023-06-14 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 14). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
2023-06-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2023-06-22 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1682.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
2023-06-22 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
2023-07-03 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 2536.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2023-07-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2023-07-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2023-07-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 101, Statutes of 2023. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6bf7d54c-5343-4833-b995-f9604c4319f9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).