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type: "Bill"
title: "Food vendors and facilities: enforcement activities."
description: "(1) Existing law authorizes a local authority, as defined, to adopt a program to regulate sidewalk vendors if the program complies with specified standards. These standards include restricting the local authority from requiring a sidewalk vendor to operate within specific parts of the public right-of-way, except when that restriction is directly related to objective health, safety, or welfare concerns. A violation of these provisions is punishable only by an administrative fine, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "SB 635"
citation: "California SB 635 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Foodvendorsandfacilities", "enforcementactivities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Durazo"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 35
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2025-02-20"
last_action: "2025-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bba13b3b-6cfe-47dc-8231-c0b809e2202c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB635"
source_hash: "c3b467200d393eea621d0179e12aa77113c51b69a9eb5697dcbc259b295dc9a6"
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 SB 635 (20252026) — Food vendors and facilities: enforcement activities.
(1) Existing law authorizes a local authority, as defined, to adopt a program to regulate sidewalk vendors if the program complies with specified standards. These standards include restricting the local authority from requiring a sidewalk vendor to operate within specific parts of the public right-of-way, except when that restriction is directly related to objective health, safety, or welfare concerns. A violation of these provisions is punishable only by an administrative fine, as specified.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/20/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB635&version=20250SB63599INT)
2. **03/26/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB635&version=20250SB63598AMD)
3. **04/07/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB635&version=20250SB63597AMD)
4. **05/01/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB635&version=20250SB63596AMD)
5. **05/29/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB635&version=20250SB63595AMD)
6. **09/02/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB635&version=20250SB63594AMD)
7. **09/04/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB635&version=20250SB63593AMD)
8. **10/07/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB635&version=20250SB63591CHP)
9. **SB635** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB635)
10. **09/18/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB635&version=20250SB63592ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Public Safety] — **52** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — **81** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB635 Durazo et al. Concurrence — **298** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **114** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **51** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **70** (pass) · lower
- SB 635 Durazo Senate Third Reading By Carrillo — **5815** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SB635 Durazo et al. — **2810** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Durazo — primary (person)
- Arreguín — coauthor (person)
- Caballero — coauthor (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Cervantes — coauthor (person)
- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Mark González — coauthor (person)
- Menjivar — coauthor (person)
- Michelle Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Ortega — coauthor (person)
- Stern — coauthor (person)
- Wiener — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-20** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-02-21** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
- **2025-03-19** Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Set for hearing April 2.
- **2025-03-26** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-03** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 637.) (April 2). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-07** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-11** Set for hearing April 29.
- **2025-04-30** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 945.) (April 29). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-01** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-09** Set for hearing May 19.
- **2025-05-19** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2025-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-29** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-05-29** Ordered to second reading.
- **2025-06-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-06-03** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 1437.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2025-06-09** Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2025-07-03** Coauthors revised.
- **2025-07-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-16** Coauthors revised.
- **2025-07-16** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-08-20** August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2025-08-29** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (August 29). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-02** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-04** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-04** Ordered to third reading.
- **2025-09-12** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 58. Noes 15. Page 3393.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-12** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2025-09-13** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 3024.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2025-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 463, 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/bba13b3b-6cfe-47dc-8231-c0b809e2202c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).