SB 1447: Health omnibus.

Official summary

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

(1)Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, establishes uniform health and sanitation standards for retail food facilities, and defines multiple terms used in those provisions, including egg, food additive, beverage, and catering operation. Existing law requires that frozen potentially hazardous food be thawed in specified ways. A person who violates any provision of the California Retail Food Code is generally guilty of a misdemeanor.

This bill would update the definition of catering operation to mean a permanent food facility approved for food preparation where food is served at a location other than its permitted location in specified circumstances. The bill would also add definitions for the terms egg product, intact meat, and mechanically tenderized.

The bill would also require that reduced oxygen packaged fish bearing a label indicating it is to be kept frozen until time of use be completely removed from the packaging prior to thawing. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

The bill would make additional technical changes to these provisions.

Existing law requires a person proposing to build or remodel a food facility to submit complete, easily readable plans drawn to scale, and specifications to the enforcement agency for review, and to receive plan approval before starting any new construction or remodeling of a facility for use as a retail food facility, including school food facilities. Existing law requires existing public and private school cafeterias, limited service charitable feeding operation facilities, and licensed health care facilities to be deemed in compliance with the California Retail Food Code pending replacement or renovation, except when the enforcement agency determines that the nonconforming structural conditions pose a public health hazard.

This bill would, for purposes of the above-described provision, switch limited service charitable feeding operation facilities to existing nonprofit charitable feeding organization facilities whose food service is solely for providing charity.

Sponsors

“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. September 14, 2026Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 238, Statutes of 2026.
2. September 14, 2026Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 238, Statutes of 2026.
3. September 14, 2026Approved by the Governor.
4. September 14, 2026Approved by the Governor.
5. September 4, 2026Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
6. September 4, 2026Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
7. August 27, 2026Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5982.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
8. August 27, 2026Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
9. August 25, 2026Ordered to special consent calendar.
10. August 25, 2026Ordered to special consent calendar.
11. August 13, 2026In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
12. August 13, 2026In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.