republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/ab-1427.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Food facilities: sanitization."
description: "Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, requires all food facilities in which food is prepared, or in which multiservice utensils and equipment are used, to provide manual methods to effectively clean and sanitize utensils, as specified. Existing law requires manual sanitization to be accomplished in a number of prescribed ways, including the application of sanitizing chemicals by immersion, manual swabbing, or brushing, using specified solutions. The law requires the State Department of Public Health to implement and administer those provisions, and delegates primary enforcement duties to local health agencies. A violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 1427"
citation: "California AB 1427 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Food facilities: sanitization."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Solorio"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 33
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2011-03-22"
last_action: "2012-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7ab11c00-facc-4001-8356-352fec578ec1"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1427"
source_hash: "af180bd75851eb635e2830a353f3b56b2ac96b6dabcfe5b798432e06e05e9c5d"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 1427 (20112012) — Food facilities: sanitization.

Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, requires all food facilities in which food is prepared, or in which multiservice utensils and equipment are used, to provide manual methods to effectively clean and sanitize utensils, as specified. Existing law requires manual sanitization to be accomplished in a number of prescribed ways, including the application of sanitizing chemicals by immersion, manual swabbing, or brushing, using specified solutions. The law requires the State Department of Public Health to implement and administer those provisions, and delegates primary enforcement duties to local health agencies. A violation of these provisions is a misdemeanor.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/22/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1427&version=20110AB142799INT)
2. **05/01/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1427&version=20110AB142798AMD)
3. **07/02/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1427&version=20110AB142797AMD)
4. **08/07/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1427&version=20110AB142796AMD)
5. **08/23/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1427&version=20110AB142795AMD)
6. **09/27/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1427&version=20110AB142793CHP)
7. **AB1427** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1427)
8. **09/11/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1427&version=20110AB142794ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- amendments be concurred in. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1427 SOLORIO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1427 Solorio By Calderon — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1427 INS. Consent Calendar Second Day — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Solorio — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-03-22** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-03-23** From printer. May be heard in committee April 22.
- **2011-03-31** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-05** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 4). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-09** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 1352.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-05-12** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-05-26** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-02** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2011-06-20** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2012-05-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on INS. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-05-03** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2012-05-03** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-17** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-04** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2012-06-28** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 13). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-07-02** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-08-06** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. `committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-07** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-15** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2012-08-20** From consent calendar.
- **2012-08-20** Ordered to third reading.
- **2012-08-23** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4891.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2012-08-29** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2012-08-29** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 6554.)
- **2012-08-29** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 29). `committee-passage`
- **2012-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6617.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:15 p.m.
- **2012-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 629, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7ab11c00-facc-4001-8356-352fec578ec1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).