republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-2539.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Certified farmers' markets."
description: "Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, establishes uniform health and sanitation standards for retail food facilities and various types of food. Among other things, the code requires temporary food facilities that handle nonprepackaged food to protect the food from contamination by taking 3 specified actions, including enclosure of the food facility with 16 mesh per square inch screens and limiting the display and handling of nonprepackaged food. The code also establishes specified food safety and sanitation requirements for certified farmers' markets governing food preparation, storage, and sampling, among other things. Existing law provides that local health agencies are primarily responsible for enforcing the code, but requires the State Department of Public Health to provide technical assistance, training, standardization, program evaluation, and other services to the local health agencies as necessary to ensure the uniform interpretation and application of the code, and to adopt regulations to implement and administer the code. 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 2539"
citation: "California AB 2539 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Certified farmers' markets."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ting"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2014-02-21"
last_action: "2014-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/54392633-5ff9-4a44-a9c8-3a2641983718"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2539"
source_hash: "500e6f0577844afb9b83e1e5d8f2e45d2fa5b82a5b209669bf88a3203c7757fb"
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 2539 (20132014) — Certified farmers' markets.

Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, establishes uniform health and sanitation standards for retail food facilities and various types of food. Among other things, the code requires temporary food facilities that handle nonprepackaged food to protect the food from contamination by taking 3 specified actions, including enclosure of the food facility with 16 mesh per square inch screens and limiting the display and handling of nonprepackaged food. The code also establishes specified food safety and sanitation requirements for certified farmers' markets governing food preparation, storage, and sampling, among other things. Existing law provides that local health agencies are primarily responsible for enforcing the code, but requires the State Department of Public Health to provide technical assistance, training, standardization, program evaluation, and other services to the local health agencies as necessary to ensure the uniform interpretation and application of the code, and to adopt regulations to implement and administer the code. 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. **02/21/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2539&version=20130AB253999INT)
2. **03/28/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2539&version=20130AB253998AMD)
3. **04/21/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2539&version=20130AB253997AMD)
4. **05/05/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2539&version=20130AB253996AMD)
5. **06/10/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2539&version=20130AB253995AMD)
6. **06/24/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2539&version=20130AB253994AMD)
7. **08/05/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2539&version=20130AB253993AMD)
8. **08/21/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2539&version=20130AB253992AMD)
9. **09/30/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2539&version=20130AB253990CHP)
10. **AB2539** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2539)
11. **09/03/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2539&version=20130AB253991ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **13–4** (pass) · lower
- AB 2539 TING Assembly Third Reading — **52–23** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–2** (pass) · upper
- AB 2539 TING Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **53–24** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2539 Ting By Monning — **22–11** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **12–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ting — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-21** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2014-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2014-02-24** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2014-03-28** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-04-01** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-01** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (April 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-05-05** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-05-06** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 52. Noes 23. Page 5017.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-19** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-28** Referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-10** 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`
- **2014-06-23** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-06-24** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-08-04** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. `committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-05** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-21** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 11. Page 4837.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-25** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 53. Noes 24. Page 6525.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2014-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 907, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/54392633-5ff9-4a44-a9c8-3a2641983718`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).