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Bill	Food safety: food handlers.	Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, provides for the regulation of health and sanitation standards for retail food facilities by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law, with specified exceptions, requires a food handler to obtain a food handler card within 30 days of their date of hire and to maintain a valid food handler card for the duration of their employment as a food handler. Under existing law, a food handler card is issued only upon successful completion of a food handler training course and examination that meets certain requirements. Existing law requires that at least one food handler training course and examination cost no more than $15, including a food handler card. A violation of the California Retail Food Code is generally a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 476	California SB 476 (20232024)	bill	Food safety food handlers	enacted	Limón	5	27	8	2023-02-14	2023-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/07262673-c4ed-4518-bcbb-e6361cdc9498	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB476	b45b51156d4852b7eb841918de100b288b9d11de8c470f34d4578bbe86c90e4c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 476 (20232024) — Food safety: food handlers.

Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, provides for the regulation of health and sanitation standards for retail food facilities by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law, with specified exceptions, requires a food handler to obtain a food handler card within 30 days of their date of hire and to maintain a valid food handler card for the duration of their employment as a food handler. Under existing law, a food handler card is issued only upon successful completion of a food handler training course and examination that meets certain requirements. Existing law requires that at least one food handler training course and examination cost no more than $15, including a food handler card. A violation of the California Retail Food Code is generally a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 09/07/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 10/08/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB476 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/15/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–2 (pass) · upper
• SB 476 Limón Senate Third Reading By Friedman — 56–18 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB476 Limón et al. Concurrence — 30–8 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–3 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB476 Limón et al. — 30–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Limón — primary (person)
• Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
• Bryan — coauthor (person)
• Friedman — principal coauthor (person)
• Lee — coauthor (person)
• Santiago — principal coauthor (person)
• Wood — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-14 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-15 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
• 2023-02-22 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2023-03-09 Set for hearing March 22.
• 2023-03-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2. Page 473.) (March 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-03-28 Set for hearing April 10.
• 2023-04-10 April 10 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2023-05-12 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1171.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 1346.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-31 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-06-08 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2023-06-21 Coauthors revised.
• 2023-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 3.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-07-12 July 12 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-07 Assembly Rule 69 suspended. (Ayes 62. Noes 15. Page 3010.)
• 2023-09-07 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-07 Ordered to third reading.
• 2023-09-12 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 56. Noes 18. Page 3275.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-12 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-09-13 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 8. Page 2744.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2023-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 610, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/07262673-c4ed-4518-bcbb-e6361cdc9498. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).