Food vendors and facilities: enforcement activities.
(1) Existing law authorizes a local authority, as defined, to adopt a program to regulate sidewalk vendors if the program complies with specified standards. These standards include restricting the local authority from requiring a sidewalk vendor to operate within specific parts of the public right-of-way, except when that restriction is directly related to objective health, safety, or welfare concerns. A violation of these provisions is punishable only by an administrative fine, as specified.
California SB 635 (20252026) — Food vendors and facilities: enforcement activities.
(1) Existing law authorizes a local authority, as defined, to adopt a program to regulate sidewalk vendors if the program complies with specified standards. These standards include restricting the local authority from requiring a sidewalk vendor to operate within specific parts of the public right-of-way, except when that restriction is directly related to objective health, safety, or welfare concerns. A violation of these provisions is punishable only by an administrative fine, as specified.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2025-02-20 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2025-02-21 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
2025-03-19 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and PUB. S. referral-committee
2025-03-24 Set for hearing April 2.
2025-03-26 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2025-04-03 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 637.) (April 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2025-04-07 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2025-04-11 Set for hearing April 29.
2025-04-30 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 945.) (April 29). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2025-05-01 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2025-05-09 Set for hearing May 19.
2025-05-19 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
2025-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2025-05-29 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
2025-05-29 Ordered to second reading.
2025-06-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2025-06-03 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 1437.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2025-06-04 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2025-06-09 Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and PUB. S. referral-committee
2025-07-03 Coauthors revised.
2025-07-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2025-07-16 Coauthors revised.
2025-07-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2025-08-20 August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (August 29). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2025-09-02 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2025-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2025-09-04 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
2025-09-04 Ordered to third reading.
2025-09-12 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 58. Noes 15. Page 3393.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2025-09-12 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2025-09-13 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 3024.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2025-09-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
2025-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2025-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 463, Statutes of 2025. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/bba13b3b-6cfe-47dc-8231-c0b809e2202c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).