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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Food delivery platforms: customer service."
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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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20252026"
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identifier: "AB 578"
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citation: "California AB 578 (20252026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Fooddeliveryplatforms", "customerservice"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Bauer-Kahan"]
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version_count: 9
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action_count: 22
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2025-02-12"
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last_action: "2025-10-06"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6553a22-906b-48e2-991f-34f4e1b1cd1e"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578"
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source_hash: "85fbd7675f95a32a9a53311b8c53520a2e58c30076756137539a915a08894a50"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 578 (20252026) — Food delivery platforms: customer service.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/12/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578&version=20250AB57899INT)
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2. **03/20/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578&version=20250AB57898AMD)
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3. **05/12/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578&version=20250AB57897AMD)
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4. **06/12/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578&version=20250AB57896AMD)
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5. **07/03/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578&version=20250AB57895AMD)
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6. **07/16/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578&version=20250AB57894AMD)
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7. **10/06/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578&version=20250AB57892CHP)
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8. **AB578** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578)
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9. **09/08/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB578&version=20250AB57893ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass as amended. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended — **7–1** (pass) · upper
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- 3rd Reading AB578 Bauer-Kahan By Durazo — **28–6** (pass) · upper
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- AB 578 Bauer-Kahan Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **66–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Business, Professions and Economic Development] — **11–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 578 Bauer-Kahan Assembly Third Reading — **63–2** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Bauer-Kahan — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-02-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2025-02-13** From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.
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- **2025-02-24** Referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-03-19** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (March 18). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
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- **2025-03-20** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-03-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-05-12** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-05-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 2. Page 1584.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-05-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2025-05-28** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and B. P. & E.D. `referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **2025-06-23** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
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- **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`
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- **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`
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- **2025-07-15** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (July 14). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
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- **2025-07-16** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 6. Page 2458.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-04** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
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- **2025-09-04** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 2931.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
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- **2025-10-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2025-10-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 341, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
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## Source
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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).
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