California Retail Food Code: meal delivery services.

Existing law, the California Retail Food Code, establishes uniform health and sanitation standards for retail food facilities for regulation by the State Department of Public Health and requires local enforcement agencies to enforce those provisions. Existing law defines "food facility" as an operation that stores, prepares, packages, serves, vends, or otherwise provides food for human consumption at the retail level. Existing law defines "retail" as storing, preparing, serving, manufacturing, packaging, transporting, salvaging, or otherwise handling food for dispensing or sale directly to the consumer or indirectly through a delivery service. Under existing law, a violation of the California Retail Food Code is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine, imprisonment in the county jail, or both. This bill would add subscription-based meal delivery services, as specified, to the existing definition of "retail." By expanding the definition of "retail," the bill would expand the applicability of an existing crime. The bill would also make a technical change to the definition of "food facility" for purposes of the California Retail Food Code by including a specific crossreference to the existing definition of "retail." The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason.