Food Preparation; Sale; Cottage Food

AI Summary

The bill focuses on regulating the sale of homemade food known as "cottage food." It aims to establish guidelines for the preparation and sale of such food products, typically made in home kitchens. The main provisions include defining which foods qualify as cottage food, setting standards for labeling and packaging, outlining sales restrictions, and establishing health and safety requirements. This bill could impact small-scale food producers by providing them with a legal framework to sell their homemade goods while ensuring consumer safety.

• 2023-12-11: Prefile

• 2024-01-08: Introduced in House and read first time

• 2024-01-08: Assigned to House RA Committee

• 2024-01-08: Assigned to House RULES Committee

• 2024-01-09: House read second time

• 2024-01-17: House RA Committee action: Do Pass Amended, voting: (6-0-0-0-0-0)

• 2024-01-29: House RULES Committee action: constitutional and in proper form, voting: (8-0-1-0-0-0)

• 2024-01-29: House Committee of the Whole consent calendar

• 2024-01-30: House majority caucus: Do pass

• 2024-01-30: House minority caucus: Do pass

• 2024-02-12: House Committee of the Whole action: Do Pass Amended

• 2024-02-15: House third reading PASSED voting: (58-0-1-0)

• 2024-02-15: Transmit to Senate

• 2024-02-21: Introduced in Senate and read first time

• 2024-02-21: Assigned to Senate FICO Committee

• 2024-02-21: Assigned to Senate RULES Committee

• 2024-02-22: Senate read second time

• 2024-03-04: Senate FICO Committee action: Do Pass, voting: (6-0-1-0)

• 2024-03-11: Senate RULES Committee action: Proper For Consideration, voting: (0-0-0-0)

• 2024-03-11: Senate consent calendar

• 2024-03-12: Senate majority caucus: Do pass

• 2024-03-12: Senate minority caucus: Do pass

• 2024-03-18: Senate Committee of the Whole action: Do Pass

• 2024-03-25: Senate third reading PASSED voting: (17-11-2-0)

• 2024-03-25: Transmit to House

• 2024-03-26: Transmitted to Governor

• 2024-03-29: Governor Signed

• 2024-03-29: Chapter 18