Bill Text: CA AB2066 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Amended
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Bill Title: The California Food Safety Act.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-16 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB2066 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2066-Amended.html
a person or entity shall not do either of the following: a person or entity that uses methylene chloride, also known as dichloromethane, in the process of decaffeinating coffee, or sells, delivers, distributes, holds, or offers for sale in commerce coffee that has been decaffeinated in a process using methylene chloride, shall label the final coffee product with a clear and conspicuous label stating: “Methylene chloride is used in the decaffeination of this product.”
Bill Title: The California Food Safety Act.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-16 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB2066 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2066-Amended.html
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2066
| Introduced by Assembly Member Reyes |
February 01, 2024 |
An act to add Section 109027 to the Health and Safety Code, relating to food.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2066, as amended, Reyes.
The California Food Safety Act.
Existing law, the California Food Safety Act, prohibits a person or entity from manufacturing, selling, delivering, distributing, holding, or offering for sale in commerce a food product for human consumption that contains a specified substance, including, among others, red dye 3.
This bill, commencing January 1, 2027, would prohibit require a person or entity from using methylene chloride in the process of decaffeinating coffee, or selling, delivering, distributing, holding, or offering for sale in commerce coffee that has been decaffeinated in a process using methylene chloride.
chloride to label the final coffee product with a clear and conspicuous label disclosing that methylene chloride was used in the decaffeination of the product. The bill would make a violation of these provisions punishable by a civil penalty not to exceed $5,000 for a first violation and not to exceed $10,000 for each subsequent violation, upon an action brought by the Attorney General, a city attorney, a county counsel, or a district attorney.
Digest Key
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 109027 is added to the Health and Safety Code, to read:109027.
(a) Commencing January 1, 2027,(1)Use methylene chloride, also known as dichloromethane, in the process of decaffeinating coffee.
(2)Sell, deliver, distribute, hold, or offer for sale in commerce coffee that has been decaffeinated in a process using methylene chloride.
(b) (1) Upon an action brought by the Attorney General, a city attorney, a county counsel, or a district attorney, a person or entity that violates subdivision (a) shall be liable for a civil penalty not to exceed five thousand dollars ($5,000) for a first violation, and not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) for each subsequent violation.
(2) This section does not impair or impede any other rights, causes of action, claims, or defenses available under any other law. The remedies provided in this section are cumulative with any other remedies available under any other
law.
