Skip to main content
Independent and nonpartisan. SaveYourState is a civic information resource. It is not a government website and is not affiliated with any government agency, party, or campaign.

California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Assembly Bill

AB 2779: Food labeling: quality dates, safety dates, and sell-by dates.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

AB 2779 is a assembly bill introduced in the California Assembly on March 5, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Food labeling: quality dates, safety dates, and sell-by dates. Primary sponsor: Jacqui Irwin (D). Most recent recorded action (September 18, 2026): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 311, Statutes of 2026.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

Existing law requires, on and after July 1, 2026, a food manufacturer, processor, or retailer responsible for the labeling of food items for human consumption that chooses, or is otherwise required by law, to display a date label to communicate a quality or safety date on a food item manufactured on or after July 1, 2026, to use specified uniform terms on the date label, as provided. Existing law prohibits a person from selling or offering for sale in the state a food item for human consumption manufactured on or after July 1, 2026, that displays a quality or safety date label that is not labeled in accordance with that requirement or that is labeled with the phrase “sell by,” as specified.

This bill would provide that a food item for human consumption does not include a dietary supplement, as defined.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Jacqui IrwinPrimary sponsorDemocraticAssembly42

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 311, Statutes of 2026.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
  4. Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6885.).
  5. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
  6. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.).
  7. Ordered to third reading.
  8. From Consent Calendar.
  9. Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5190.)
  10. Motion to reconsider made by Senator Ashby.
  11. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5189.).
  12. Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page