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type: "Bill"
title: "Food delivery platforms: customer service."
description: "Existing law imposes various business practice restrictions on a food delivery platform, defined as an online business that acts as an intermediary between consumers and multiple food facilities to submit food and beverage orders from a consumer to a participating food facility, and to arrange for, or to complete, the delivery of the order, as prescribed."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 578"
citation: "California AB 578 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Fooddeliveryplatforms", "customerservice"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bauer-Kahan"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-12"
last_action: "2025-10-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6553a22-906b-48e2-991f-34f4e1b1cd1e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578"
source_hash: "85fbd7675f95a32a9a53311b8c53520a2e58c30076756137539a915a08894a50"
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 578 (20252026) — Food delivery platforms: customer service.
Existing law imposes various business practice restrictions on a food delivery platform, defined as an online business that acts as an intermediary between consumers and multiple food facilities to submit food and beverage orders from a consumer to a participating food facility, and to arrange for, or to complete, the delivery of the order, as prescribed.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/12/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578&version=20250AB57899INT)
2. **03/20/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578&version=20250AB57898AMD)
3. **05/12/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578&version=20250AB57897AMD)
4. **06/12/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578&version=20250AB57896AMD)
5. **07/03/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578&version=20250AB57895AMD)
6. **07/16/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578&version=20250AB57894AMD)
7. **10/06/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578&version=20250AB57892CHP)
8. **AB578** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578)
9. **09/08/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578&version=20250AB57893ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended. — **140** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **71** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB578 Bauer-Kahan By Durazo — **286** (pass) · upper
- AB 578 Bauer-Kahan Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **660** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Business, Professions and Economic Development] — **110** (pass) · upper
- AB 578 Bauer-Kahan Assembly Third Reading — **632** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Bauer-Kahan — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-13** From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
- **2025-02-24** Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (March 18). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2025-03-20** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-03-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-12** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-05-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 2. Page 1584.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-05-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-05-28** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and B. P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-23** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2025-07-02** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on B. P. & E.D. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 1). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-03** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. P. & E.D. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-15** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July 14). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2025-07-16** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 6. Page 2458.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-04** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2025-09-04** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 2931.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2025-10-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 341, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f6553a22-906b-48e2-991f-34f4e1b1cd1e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).