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Bill	Major food allergens.	Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, establishes uniform health and sanitation standards for, and provides for regulation by the State Department of Public Health of, retail food facilities, and requires local health agencies to enforce those provisions. Existing law makes a person who violates a provision of the code guilty of a misdemeanor.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	SB 68	California SB 68 (20252026)	bill	Majorfoodallergens	enacted	Menjivar	7	27	8	2025-01-13	2025-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/b28b65e7-a1e7-441e-b1e3-a90f0e23336b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB68	f82fa1542d8745d8c78ac4bafdcbce30cf1296105dc01506a87fd0f7c44cecd8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 68 (20252026) — Major food allergens.

Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, establishes uniform health and sanitation standards for, and provides for regulation by the State Department of Public Health of, retail food facilities, and requires local health agencies to enforce those provisions. Existing law makes a person who violates a provision of the code guilty of a misdemeanor.

Version chain

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

1. 01/13/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/23/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/10/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/04/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/13/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB68 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/12/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 11–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 14–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 68 Menjivar Senate Third Reading By Elhawary — 66–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 32–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB68 Menjivar Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Menjivar — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-13 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2025-01-14 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 13.
• 2025-01-29 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-03-26 Set for hearing April 9.
• 2025-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 736.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-17 Set for hearing April 28.
• 2025-04-28 April 28 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2025-05-16 Set for hearing May 23.
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 1190.) (May 23). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 1281.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-28 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2025-06-05 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2025-07-01 July 1 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2025-07-09 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (July 8). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-07-10 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-08-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (August 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-08-21 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.
• 2025-09-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 66. Noes 1. Page 2982.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-08 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2025-09-09 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2709.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 741, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b28b65e7-a1e7-441e-b1e3-a90f0e23336b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).