BILL NUMBER: AB 2593 INTRODUCED
BILL TEXT
INTRODUCED BY Assembly Member Brown
FEBRUARY 19, 2016
An act to amend Section 113789 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to food.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2593, as introduced, Brown. Food facilities: private homes.
Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, establishes uniform
health and sanitation standards for retail food facilities, and
defines a food facility to mean an operation that stores, prepares,
packages, serves, vends, or otherwise provides food for human
consumption at the retail level, as specified. Existing law exempts,
among others, a private home, including a registered or permitted
cottage food operation from the definition of food facility.
This bill would additionally exempt from the definition of food
facility, a private home that meets specified requirements, including
that the private home is not open to the public and the cook
directly sells the food to the consumer after fully informing the
consumer on all of the cook's methods of food preparation and
handling.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: yes.
State-mandated local program: no.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 113789 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
113789. (a) "Food facility" means an operation that stores,
prepares, packages, serves, vends, or otherwise provides food for
human consumption at the retail level, including, but not limited to,
both of the following:
(1) An operation where food is consumed on or off the premises,
regardless of whether there is a charge for the food.
(2) A place used in conjunction with the operations described in
this subdivision, including, but not limited to, storage facilities
for food-related utensils, equipment, and materials.
(b) "Food facility" includes permanent and nonpermanent food
facilities, including, but not limited to, all of the
following:
(1) Public and private school cafeterias.
(2) Restricted food service facilities.
(3) Licensed health care facilities, except as provided in
paragraph (13) of subdivision (c).
(4) Commissaries.
(5) Mobile food facilities.
(6) Mobile support units.
(7) Temporary food facilities.
(8) Vending machines.
(9) Certified farmers' markets, for purposes of permitting and
enforcement pursuant to Section 114370.
(10) Farm stands, for purposes of permitting and enforcement
pursuant to Section 114375.
(11) Fishermen's markets.
(c) "Food facility" does not include any of the following:
(1) A cooperative arrangement wherein no permanent facilities are
used for storing or handling food.
(2) (A) A private home, including a cottage
food operation that is registered or has a permit pursuant to Section
114365. 114365 and a private home
described in subparagraph (B).
(B) A private home that meets all of the following requirements
shall:
(i) The food is prepared and handled by no more than two
individuals.
(ii) The private home is not open to the public, and the cook
invites or approves all consumers coming into his or her private home
in advance.
(iii) The cook fully informs a consumer on all of his or her
methods of food preparation and handling and any risks associated
with the food preparation or handling in the private home through
informational materials before the purchase of food.
(iv) The cook directly sells the food to the consumer.
(v) There are no complaints submitted to any authority asserting
unsafe practices, nuisance, or negligence on part of the cook.
(vi) There are no more than six consumers in the cook's private
home at any one time.
(3) A church, private club, or other nonprofit association that
gives or sells food to its members and guests, and not to the general
public, at an event that occurs not more than three days in any
90-day period.
(4) A for-profit entity that gives or sells food at an event that
occurs not more than three days in a 90-day period for the benefit of
a nonprofit association, if the for-profit entity receives no
monetary benefit, other than that resulting from recognition from
participating in an event.
(5) Premises set aside for wine tasting, as that term is used in
Section 23356.1 of the Business and Professions Code, or premises set
aside by a beer manufacturer, as defined in Section 25000.2 of the
Business and Professions Code, and in the regulations adopted
pursuant to those sections, that comply with Section 118375,
regardless of whether there is a charge for the wine or beer tasting,
if no other beverage, except for bottles of wine or beer and
prepackaged nonpotentially hazardous beverages, is offered for sale
or for onsite consumption and no food, except for crackers, pretzels,
or prepackaged food that is not potentially hazardous food is
offered for sale or for onsite consumption.
(6) An outlet or location, including, but not limited to,
premises, operated by a producer, selling or offering for sale only
whole produce grown by the producer or shell eggs, or both, provided
the sales are conducted at an outlet or location controlled by the
producer.
(7) A commercial food processing establishment as defined in
Section 111955.
(8) A child day care facility, as defined in Section 1596.750.
(9) A community care facility, as defined in Section 1502.
(10) A residential care facility for the elderly, as defined in
Section 1569.2.
(11) A residential care facility for the chronically ill, which
has the same meaning as a residential care facility, as defined in
Section 1568.01.
(12) (A) An intermediate care facility for the developmentally
disabled, as defined in subdivisions (e), (h), and (m) of Section
1250, with a capacity of six beds or fewer.
(B) A facility described in subparagraph (A) shall report any
foodborne illness or outbreak to the local health department and to
the State Department of Public Health within 24 hours of the illness
or outbreak.
(13) A community food producer, as defined in Section 113752.