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Yes: 151 • No: 41
CaliforniaSB 6352025-2026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET
Food vendors and facilities: enforcement activities.
Sponsored By: Maria Elena Durazo (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
Analyzed Economic Effects
8 provisions identified: 4 benefits, 2 costs, 2 mixed.
Stronger privacy and IDs for vendors
The law lets you use a California ID, an ITIN, or a municipal ID instead of a Social Security number on vending and compact mobile food permits. Agencies cannot ask about immigration or citizenship, place of birth, criminal history, or fingerprints. Records about place of birth, criminal history, or fingerprints made before January 1, 2026 must be destroyed by March 1, 2026, unless another law requires keeping them. Your personal information is confidential, exempt from public records, and can only be shared with a subpoena or court warrant.
No local immigration checks in vending
Local agencies and their contractors cannot use local funds or staff to investigate, detain, or arrest people for immigration enforcement while enforcing vending rules. Staff cannot ask about immigration status or work under immigration-enforcement supervision, and immigration officers cannot be used as interpreters. Contracts entered into or changed on or after January 1, 2026 must include these limits and be ended immediately if the contractor breaks them.
Permits and fees for food vendors
Food facilities must hold and display a valid, nontransferable permit. Local governments set permit fees to cover the real costs of running and enforcing the program, and requesters pay the agency’s hourly cost recovery rate for requested actions. A city or county may require a state seller’s permit to operate. Vendors may need to register and give basic info like name, address, what they sell, a seller’s permit number (if any), and principal info when selling as an agent. Local vending programs are allowed but must follow the state’s standards and definitions.
Vending violations: fines and permit loss
Standard fines in compliant programs are capped: up to $100 for a first violation, $200 for a second within one year, and $500 for each additional within one year. If a permit is required, vending without one can bring higher fines: up to $250 first, $500 second within one year, and $1,000 for each additional within one year; fines must be reduced to the standard schedule if you later prove a valid permit. A permit may be canceled for its term after four or more violations. Fine proceeds go to the local treasury.
Mobile food: admin fines, not crimes
For compact mobile food operations, violations by operators or employees bring administrative fines, not criminal charges; arrests are limited to other lawful grounds. Fines escalate within a year: $100 for a second, $200 for a third, and $500 for each later violation. If a permit is required, operating without it can bring an alternative fine up to three times the permit cost, per occurrence. Agencies could not issue fines above the listed amounts before January 1, 2024.
Where sidewalk vendors can work
Cities cannot force vendors into tiny zones or set hard number caps unless tied to real health, safety, or welfare needs. Roaming vendors are allowed in residential zones; stationary vendors may be barred in zones that are only residential. You can sell in parks unless an exclusive concession exists; parks may set health, safety, resource‑protection, or crowding rules. Cities can restrict vending next to certified farmers’ markets or swap meets during market hours and in temporary event areas during the event. Vendors must get the same notice and business‑interruption help as other affected businesses. Cities cannot rely on community dislike or competition, and they cannot require private-party consent.
Clear old vending cases and records
If you have a past misdemeanor or infraction for vending that is no longer an offense, you can ask the sentencing court to dismiss and seal your conviction, sentence, or fine. Courts presume you qualify unless shown otherwise by clear and convincing evidence. For local rules adopted before January 1, 2019, violations are not crimes, arrests are not allowed except under other law, and courts dismiss pending criminal cases that are not final.
Fine relief and 20% payment option
If you get an administrative fine, the agency must tell you how to ask for an ability‑to‑pay review at the hearing or while a judgment is unpaid. If you meet Government Code Section 68632(a) or (b), the agency must accept 20% of the fine as full payment. Agencies may also let you do community service, waive the fine, or use other options.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Maria Elena Durazo
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
Jesse ArreguÃn
Democratic • Senate
Anna Caballero
Democratic • Senate
Juan Carrillo
Democratic • House
Sabrina Cervantes
Democratic • Senate
Mark Mark González
Democratic • House
Mark Mark González
Democratic • House
Caroline Menjivar
Democratic • Senate
Michelle Michelle Rodriguez
Democratic • House
Liz Ortega
Democratic • House
Henry Stern
Democratic • Senate
Scott Wiener
Democratic • Senate
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 9/13/2025
Item 126 — Senate SFLOOR
Yes: 29 • No: 8
House vote • 9/12/2025
Item 56 — Assembly AFLOOR
Yes: 58 • No: 15
legislature vote • 8/29/2025
Vote in CX25
Yes: 11 • No: 4
legislature vote • 7/15/2025
Vote in CX18
Yes: 7 • No: 0
legislature vote • 7/2/2025
Vote in CX15
Yes: 8 • No: 1
Senate vote • 6/3/2025
Item 131 — Senate SFLOOR
Yes: 28 • No: 10
legislature vote • 4/29/2025
Vote in CS72
Yes: 5 • No: 1
legislature vote • 4/2/2025
Vote in CS82
Yes: 5 • No: 2
Actions Timeline
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 463, Statutes of 2025.
10/7/2025SenateApproved by the Governor.
10/7/2025legislatureEnrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
9/23/2025legislatureAssembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 3024.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
9/13/2025SenateIn Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
9/12/2025SenateRead third time. Passed. (Ayes 58. Noes 15. Page 3393.) Ordered to the Senate.
9/12/2025HouseOrdered to third reading.
9/4/2025HouseRead third time and amended.
9/4/2025HouseRead second time. Ordered to third reading.
9/3/2025HouseRead second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
9/2/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (August 29).
8/29/2025HouseAugust 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
8/20/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
7/16/2025HouseCoauthors revised.
7/16/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
7/3/2025HouseCoauthors revised.
7/3/2025HouseReferred to Coms. on L. GOV. and PUB. S.
6/9/2025HouseIn Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
6/4/2025HouseRead third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 1437.) Ordered to the Assembly.
6/3/2025SenateRead second time. Ordered to third reading.
6/2/2025SenateOrdered to second reading.
5/29/2025SenateRead third time and amended.
5/29/2025SenateRead second time. Ordered to third reading.
5/20/2025SenateFrom committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
5/19/2025SenateSet for hearing May 19.
5/9/2025Senate
Bill Text
Chaptered
10/7/2025
Enrolled
9/18/2025
Amended Assembly
9/4/2025
Amended Assembly
9/2/2025
Amended Senate
5/29/2025
Amended Senate
5/1/2025
Amended Senate
4/7/2025
Amended Senate
3/26/2025
Introduced
2/20/2025