republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-1252.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Retail food safety."
description: "(1) Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, reestablishes uniform health and sanitation standards for retail food facilities, including mobile food facilities and temporary food facilities, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law provides that local health agencies are primarily responsible for enforcing these provisions. A person who violates any provision of the code is guilty of a misdemeanor, except as otherwise provided."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1252"
citation: "California AB 1252 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Retail food safety."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Health"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 28
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2013-02-22"
last_action: "2013-10-04"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/273ab444-a2d5-491a-b5b8-79ac6e4156f8"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1252"
source_hash: "57b8c4788f4762906f7363aea7c0d8899ab57e044f8c35ea5b1b7206dae3509c"
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 1252 (20132014) — Retail food safety.

(1) Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, reestablishes uniform health and sanitation standards for retail food facilities, including mobile food facilities and temporary food facilities, by the State Department of Public Health. Existing law provides that local health agencies are primarily responsible for enforcing these provisions. A person who violates any provision of the code is guilty of a misdemeanor, except as otherwise provided.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1252&version=20130AB125299INT)
2. **04/10/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1252&version=20130AB125298AMD)
3. **06/19/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1252&version=20130AB125297AMD)
4. **07/02/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1252&version=20130AB125296AMD)
5. **08/20/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1252&version=20130AB125295AMD)
6. **10/04/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1252&version=20130AB125293CHP)
7. **AB1252** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1252)
8. **09/12/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1252&version=20130AB125294ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB1252 Committee on HEALTH (Pan) By Monning — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1252 HEALTH Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1252 HEALTH Concurrence in Senate Amendments By PAN — **76–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Health — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-22** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2013-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
- **2013-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2013-03-11** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-09** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 2). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-10** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-11** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-17** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-04-18** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1120.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-04-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-09** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-29** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2013-06-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-07-01** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 26). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-07-02** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-07-11** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2013-08-12** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-08-14** From consent calendar.
- **2013-08-14** Ordered to third reading.
- **2013-08-20** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-08-21** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-09-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2182.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-09-06** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2013-09-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3040.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2013-10-04** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-10-04** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 556, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/273ab444-a2d5-491a-b5b8-79ac6e4156f8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).