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Bill	Food and beverage products: labeling: quality dates, safety dates, and sell-by dates.	(1) Existing law, the Milk and Milk Products Act of 1947, regulates milk and milk products and establishes standards for the manufacturing, handling, processing, and marketing of milk and milk products. Existing law requires that there appear on the package or container of market milk, market cream, and other milk products made from market milk or any component or derivative of market milk the date established by the processor as the date on which, in order to ensure consumer quality, the product is normally removed from the shelf or similar location from which the milk product is offered for sale to the consumer.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 660	California AB 660 (20232024)	bill	Food and beverage products labeling quality dates safety dates and sell-by dates	enacted	Irwin	13	38	10	2023-02-09	2024-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/d03187ef-7582-4f2d-9ae2-83088bfdba92	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB660	f2b23df425e46118984c02b8be704c28086568fb3cdc010c5bff38c9510f7950	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 660 (20232024) — Food and beverage products: labeling: quality dates, safety dates, and sell-by dates.

(1) Existing law, the Milk and Milk Products Act of 1947, regulates milk and milk products and establishes standards for the manufacturing, handling, processing, and marketing of milk and milk products. Existing law requires that there appear on the package or container of market milk, market cream, and other milk products made from market milk or any component or derivative of market milk the date established by the processor as the date on which, in order to ensure consumer quality, the product is normally removed from the shelf or similar location from which the milk product is offered for sale to the consumer.

Version chain

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

1. 02/09/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/10/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/01/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/18/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/06/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/26/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/15/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/17/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/21/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/23/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/28/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
12. AB660 (committee substitute) — source
13. 08/31/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 11–4 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB660 Irwin et al. By Allen — 34–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 660 Irwin Assembly Third Reading — 63–16 (pass) · lower
• AB 660 Irwin Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 61–14 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Agriculture] — 9–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Irwin — primary (person)
• Allen — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-09 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-10 From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
• 2023-02-17 Referred to Coms. on AGRI. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2023-03-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 15). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-04-10 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
• 2023-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2023-04-17 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2023-04-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (April 25). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-05-01 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-02 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2023-05-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (May 18). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2023-05-18 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 16. Page 1909.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-31 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-06-07 Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and AGRI. referral-committee
• 2023-06-22 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 21). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2023-06-26 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-07-03 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2023-08-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on AGRI. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on AGRI. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-07-01 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 15). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2024-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-21 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-23 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 1.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2024-08-28 Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
• 2024-08-28 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 61. Noes 14.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2024-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 911, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d03187ef-7582-4f2d-9ae2-83088bfdba92. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).