Business: retail food.

The document was reformatted from a printed chaptered version (with page headers like 'Ch. 469' and page numbers) to a web-based presentation that includes site navigation, version history, and bill metadata such as vote type, appropriation status, and fiscal committee designation.

Restaurants operating with open windows, folding doors, or nonfixed store fronts must now develop an integrated pest management and food safety risk mitigation plan and submit it to the local enforcement agency for approval before operation begins.

The pest management plan must include five minimum components: a risk assessment of the facility layout and surroundings, control procedures for vermin and contamination prevention, ongoing monitoring at a frequency appropriate to identified risk level, employee training upon hire and annually, and record-keeping including self-closure documentation and certified pest control operator visit records kept onsite for 12 months.

Restaurants must self-close upon observation of any vermin activity inside the facility (including droppings or markings) and remain closed until all vermin are eliminated.

Local enforcement agencies are prohibited from unreasonably withholding approval of a pest management plan and must make every reasonable effort to identify conditions allowing safe operation. Approval must be granted unless the agency demonstrates based on substantial evidence that unique circumstances exist where no reasonable measures can mitigate a significant risk to public health or safety.

Local enforcement agencies retain existing authority under the California Retail Food Code to suspend or revoke an approved pest management plan if the plan is not followed, vermin are observed during an inspection, or complaints of vermin presence are verified.

The bill's scope expanded from a simple authorization for open-front restaurant configurations to a detailed regulatory framework with specific plan requirements, self-closure duties, record-keeping obligations, and balanced approval standards that both constrain local agency discretion and preserve their enforcement authority.

Assembly Member Hart and Senator Rubio were added as coauthors of the bill.

The bill was assigned Chapter 469 and the governor's approval and filing date of October 9, 2025 was added, confirming the bill became law.

Header changed from the enrolled bill format (with Assembly and Senate passage lines) to the authenticated electronic legal material format used for chaptered laws.

Page numbering and line wrapping were reflowed throughout to match the new chaptered law layout; all substantive statutory text in Sections 1 through 6 is unchanged.

New subdivision (c) added to Business and Professions Code Section 25750.5 prohibiting the department from issuing any new COVID-19 Temporary Catering Authorizations on or after January 1, 2027. Existing authorizations remain valid until the section's full expiration on January 1, 2029.

Government Code Section 65907 had redundant language removed: 'To the extent that If' was corrected to simply 'If,' cleaning up what appears to be a drafting artifact where two versions of the opening phrase were left in the text.

The bill description section was reorganized, moving fiscal analysis items (3), (4), and (5) from after the enacting clause to before it, and adding the new January 1, 2027 prohibition language to the summary of the bill's effects.

The bill now amends four code sections (Business and Professions Code 25750.5, Government Code 65907, Health and Safety Code 114067 and 114266) rather than merely stating legislative intent to help restaurants.

Allows the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to permit licensees to sell alcohol on adjacent property under a COVID-19 Temporary Catering Authorization, making outdoor alcohol sales a permanent option rather than temporary pandemic relief.

Requires local jurisdictions that have not adopted their own parking relief ordinance to reduce required parking spaces for existing uses by the number needed to accommodate expanded outdoor dining areas, permanently.

Changes the enclosure requirement for permanent food facilities: instead of requiring full enclosure at all times, facilities must be fully enclosed only during hours of nonoperation and may use open windows, folding doors, or nonfixed store fronts during operating hours. This new standard takes effect January 1, 2026.

A permitted food facility subject to retail food operation restrictions related to a COVID-19 public health response may prepare and serve food as a temporary satellite food service without obtaining a separate satellite food service permit or submitting written operating procedures (though procedures must be maintained onsite).

Fiscal notes changed from 'no' to 'yes' for both fiscal committee review and state-mandated local program, acknowledging that the extended parking relief duties impose costs on local agencies. However, the bill states no reimbursement is required because local agencies can levy sufficient fees or assessments.

Assembly Member Mark Gonzalez was added as an author and Assembly Member Michelle Rodriguez was added as a coauthor of the bill.

The legislative counsel digest removed the word 'indefinitely' from the phrase 'operative indefinitely until January 1, 2029,' changing it to simply 'operative until January 1, 2029,' which is a clarification rather than a policy change.

Section 25750.5(a) changed the phrase 'under the control of the licensee' to 'under within the control of the licensee,' which appears to be a drafting error introduced in this version.

Section 65907 (Government Code) changed the trigger for mandatory parking space reduction from 'To the extent that an outdoor expansion... interferes with, reduces, eliminates, or impacts required parking' to 'If an outdoor expansion... interferes with, reduces, eliminates, or impacts required parking.' This replaces a degree-based standard with a simpler yes-or-no condition, making it easier for local jurisdictions to be required to reduce parking spaces for existing uses when outdoor dining areas are expanded.

Section 25750.5 (Business and Professions Code) corrected the phrase 'under within the control of the licensee' to 'within the control of the licensee,' removing a redundant word that was likely a drafting error.

Senator Weber Pierson was added as a coauthor alongside Senators Allen and Wiener, indicating broader Senate support for the bill.

The sunset date for the ABC temporary catering authorization (Business and Professions Code 25705.5) was extended from July 1, 2026 to January 1, 2029, giving licensees an additional roughly 2.5 years to operate expanded outdoor drinking areas under this provision.

Government Code Section 65907 (parking relief for expanded outdoor dining) previously had a sunset date of July 1, 2026. The sunset provision was removed entirely, making the parking relief requirement permanent with no expiration date.

Health and Safety Code Section 114067(k), which allows permitted food facilities to operate as temporary satellite food service without a separate permit or written operating procedures, previously expired on July 1, 2026. The sunset date was removed, making this waiver permanent.

A standalone section stating the Legislature's intent to enact legislation to help restaurants, including extending outdoor dining permanently, was removed from the bill.

Multiple coauthors were added: Assembly Members Bryan, Davies, McKinnor, Pacheco, Blanca Rubio, Schiavo, Solache, and Soria; Senators Allen and Wiener as coauthors; and Senator Cervantes as principal coauthor. The short title 'An act relating to restaurants' was removed.

The fiscal committee designation changed from 'no' to 'yes' and the state-mandated local program designation changed from 'no' to 'yes', indicating the bill now triggers fiscal analysis and is considered a state-mandated local program.