Law changes
Changes to the laws, fees and rules in our guides, newest first. Each entry links to the guide it affects.
- , Cottage food in Minnesota: Coming change (passed in 2025, not yet in effect): one registration tier with a $30 yearly fee for everyone, the same advanced training for all, shipping and mail delivery allowed within Minnesota, and the $78,000 cap adjusted for inflation every two years. Only individuals, sole proprietors and LLCs owned by one person, or by two people living at the same home, can register; anyone who holds a state food handler license under Minnesota Statutes section 28A.04 cannot.
- , Cottage food in Nevada: Scheduled: under Assembly Bill 352 (2025), the Nevada Department of Agriculture becomes the registering authority for cottage food in the whole state, under new rules it is writing. Registrations with the Southern Nevada Health District stop being valid after June 30, 2027. Until then the current law (now NRS 580.600) and the local health authorities still apply.
- , Cottage food in Colorado: Most of HB26-1033 (the "Tamale Act") takes effect. Producers must register with CDPHE every year before selling and put the registration number on labels. The cap rises to $150,000 a year in gross revenue, adjusted for inflation. You may sell one type of packaged food that must be kept hot or cold to stay safe (such as tamales, burritos or tortas), in up to five variations, after taking a food safety course on time and temperature control. Raw milk, low-acid canned foods, fermented or acidified foods that must be kept cold, alcohol, cannabinoid products, and foods preserved by smoking, reduced-oxygen packing or curing are excluded.
- , Cottage food in Oklahoma: HB 3720 takes effect. It renames the Homemade Food Freedom Act the Local Food Freedom Act, raises the sales cap from $75,000 to $250,000, lets the business operate away from a home (but not as a restaurant), requires everyone making hot or cold foods to take the food safety course, changes the label statement from "private residence" to "facility", and requires following local zoning and building codes.
- , Cottage food in Louisiana: Act 801 of 2026 (HB 403) took effect. It raised the yearly sales limit for home food sellers from $30,000 to $100,000.
- , Cottage food in Indiana: House Enrolled Act 1424 took effect. It created a separate "homestead vendor" and "small farm" category alongside the home-based vendor rules, which stay in force. Homestead vendors can sell more kinds of food, including prepared foods and meat from animals raised on their own property and processed under state meat rules, from their property or at farmers markets, up to $1.5 million a year in sales.
- , Food truck in San Francisco, CA: Public Works' 2026-2027 mobile food fee schedule took effect: $199 filing, $318 notification and $608 inspection for one location.
- , Food truck in San Francisco, CA: New health department fee rates took effect, including the $414 and $690 food truck plan check fees.
- , Food truck in New York: New York City began offering 2,200 new supervisory licences a year for five years, under Local Laws 54 and 59 of 2026. These add 11,000 mobile food vending permits. They go first to people on the waiting lists created in 2022.
- , Food truck in North Carolina: Mecklenburg County added a 1% local sales and use tax. Food trucks selling there must collect it.
- , Food truck in Texas: House Bill 2844 takes effect. Every food truck now needs one statewide DSHS Mobile Food Vendor license per vehicle, and local health departments stop issuing food truck permits. Cities can't ban a licensed vendor who follows other state and local laws.
- , Food truck in Austin, TX: Texas took over food truck health licensing. Trucks now need a DSHS mobile food vendor license instead of an Austin Public Health permit (House Bill 2844).
- , Cottage food in Colorado: The governor signed HB26-1033, the "Tamale Act". The parts that change the cottage food rules wait until January 1, 2027.
- , Food truck in Texas: The new state rules for mobile food vendors (25 Texas Administrative Code Chapter 226) take effect. They set the license types, fees, commissary exemption and inspection rules.
- , Cottage food in South Carolina: Act 146 of 2026 amended Section 46-57-20 to allow online, mail-order and retail store sales, raised the small-operation exemption to $1,500 a year in net earnings, and said local ordinances take priority.
- , Cottage food in Utah: Amendments to the Homemade Food Act took effect. Producers can now use a contracted "designated representative" to sell and deliver for them, and sales made only by sellers under 18 no longer need the label.
- , Cottage food in Kentucky: SB 73 (2026 Ky. Acts ch. 52) became law. For home-based processors it adds "pork lard or tallow-based cosmetic products" to what can be made at home under the same rules, and removes old wording about setting up the registration system.
- , Cottage food in Idaho: Senate Bill 1283, the Idaho Direct-to-Consumer Commerce Act, took effect when the Governor signed it. It replaced the old cottage food rule and allows most homemade foods and drinks, including ones that need refrigeration and some meats, to be sold directly to Idaho customers without a permit.
- , Cottage food in Vermont: The Health Department's final Manufactured Food Rule took effect. Act 42 had told the Department to use an emergency rule until permanent rules were adopted, and the emergency rule was adopted on July 1, 2025.
- , Cottage food in California: Sales limits rose with inflation to $88,878 (Class A) and $177,756 (Class B).
- , Food truck in California: SB 635 took effect. When a compact mobile food operation (a pushcart, stand or other vendor without a motor) applies for a permit, the health department may no longer ask about immigration status, place of birth or criminal history, and must keep the applicant's personal details private. This rule is written for carts and stands, not motorized food trucks.
- , Cottage food in Texas: SB 541 took effect. It raised the sales cap from $50,000 to $150,000, allowed almost all foods (including ones that need refrigeration), let nonprofits run cottage food operations, created registration and cottage food vendors, and changed the required label statement.
- , Food truck in San Francisco, CA: Updated Fire Code permit fees took effect, including $446 for mobile food preparation vehicles.
- , Food truck in Texas: Senate Bill 1008 takes effect. Cities, counties and health districts can only require food permits the state itself would require, and generally can't charge more than the state's fee. Some exceptions apply, such as a fee of up to 120% when a local health department says it needs it for safety staffing.
- , Food truck in Austin, TX: The part of the law that limits what the state's food truck rules can require took effect. For example, DSHS rules can't make you install a GPS tracker, or use a commissary if your truck has the right equipment and disposes of its grease properly.
- , Cottage food in Hawaii: Amended Food Safety Code rules took effect, as required by Act 195 of 2024. Homemade food producers can now sell to third parties, online and wholesale, and make certain pickled, fermented or acidified plant foods.
- , Cottage food in Illinois: A general clean-up law (Public Act 104-417) touched this section. It says it makes no change in substance.
- , Cottage food in Georgia: House Bill 398 took effect. It ended the state cottage food license (which had cost $100 a year) and state pre-license inspections, allowed sales to grocery stores and restaurants, created the optional ID number in place of an address on labels, and set a new required label statement.
- , Cottage food in Tennessee: The legislature amended the Food Freedom Act to allow certain foods that need to be kept hot or cold (time/temperature control for safety foods) to be made and sold from home.
- , Cottage food in Vermont: Act 42 took effect. It replaced the old home bakery exemption ($125 a week in sales) with a cottage food exemption of $30,000 a year covering more shelf-stable foods. It also made the exemption filing yearly and required it to confirm that you completed the training the rules require.
- , Food truck in Texas: Governor Abbott signs House Bill 2844, creating the statewide mobile food vendor license.
- , Cottage food in Alaska: DEC repealed the old state cottage food exemption in 18 AAC 31.012(a), because the 2024 homemade food law covers it more broadly.
- , Food truck in Georgia: Georgia's food service rules (Chapter 511-6-1) were revised to adopt the 2022 FDA Food Code. Among the changes, sesame became the 9th major allergen, and you must tell customers in writing (for example, on your menu) about major allergens in unpackaged food.
- , Cottage food in Arizona: New ADHS cottage food rules (R9-8-101.02) took effect, setting out the registration, label, packaging and delivery requirements under the 2024 law.
- , Cottage food in California: Sales limits rose with inflation to $86,206 (Class A) and $172,411 (Class B).
- , Cottage food in Illinois: Public Act 103-903 added mobile farmers markets as a place to sell, allowed alcohol in extracts and baked goods, let a pH and water activity test show a food is shelf-stable, and made counties without a health department contract with a neighbor to register sellers.
- , Food truck in Illinois: Illinois switched its Food Code to the 2022 FDA Food Code. Changes include sesame as a major allergen and a rule that employees must be able to describe major food allergens and the symptoms of an allergic reaction.
- , Cottage food in Wisconsin: The Wisconsin Court of Appeals reversed a 2022 circuit court order that had extended the no-license rule to all home-made foods that don't need refrigeration. The exemption is back to baked goods only.
- , Cottage food in Arizona: HB 2042 took effect. It allowed foods that need time or temperature control for safety (such as refrigerated foods) and some foods with meat or poultry, and set rules for selling through stores, online and by delivery. ADHS now calls the former Home Baked and Confectionery Goods certificate a Cottage Food certificate.
- , Food truck in Ohio: High-risk mobile food operations must have at least one person with a person-in-charge certificate at each event.
- , Cottage food in Alaska: The homemade food part of HB 251 (AS 17.20.332 to 17.20.338) took effect. It exempts homemade food from state permits, licensing and inspection, allows foods that need refrigeration, and allows meat sold under federal rules. The governor signed the bill on August 24, 2024, with the homemade food section effective from July 1, 2024.
- , Cottage food in South Carolina: Act 60 of 2023 split up DHEC (the old Department of Health and Environmental Control). Its food safety program moved to the Department of Agriculture, and the home-based food rules were added to the Agriculture title as Section 46-57-20.
- , Cottage food in Rhode Island: An amendment changed the law's wording. It used to say RIDOH would "permit" cottage food sales "at retail"; it now says RIDOH registers cottage food sales made directly to consumers, by pickup or delivery within the state.
- , Food truck in Florida: DBPR's rule on mobile food dispensing vehicles, temporary commercial kitchens and theme park food carts (rule 61C-4.0161) was last updated.
- , Cottage food in Oregon: ODA rewrote the home baking rules into the Cottage Food Exemption after Senate Bill 643 (2023). The change added foods beyond baked goods and candy, allowed online sales and, under conditions, sales to retail stores, added the optional ID number for labels, required a pets statement on labels and spelled out the record-keeping rules.
- , Cottage food in Virginia: HB 759 (2024 Acts, chapter 131) was approved. It raised the yearly sales cap for home-made pickles and acidified vegetables from $3,000 to $9,000.
- , Food truck in California: Los Angeles County changed its mobile food health permits, fees and services.
- , Cottage food in Washington: Updated WSDA rules took effect under a 2023 law (2023 c 352) that set the annual sales cap at $35,000 and requires WSDA to review the cap every four years.
- , Cottage food in Delaware: Amendments to the cottage food regulations took effect. They removed the $25,000 yearly sales cap, dropped the owner's name and full home address from labels (the label now shows the town or city in Delaware), and added sesame to the major food allergens.
- , Food truck in Austin, TX: Austin Fire inspections became required for food trucks with propane or grease-producing electric appliances.
- , Food truck in Florida: SB 752 (Chapter 2023-48) took effect. It extended the state's control of licenses and fees to temporary commercial kitchens, and made commissaries also keep a registry of the temporary commercial kitchens they serve.
- , Cottage food in West Virginia: The Department of Agriculture's Farmers Markets rule (61CSR38) took effect, setting the labeling standards for homemade food, including the non-commercial kitchen statement.
- , Food truck in Georgia: House Bill 1443 took effect. A food truck permitted in its home county no longer needs a separate permit in each county. Other counties must recognize the permit after a simple authorization process.
- , Cottage food in Wisconsin: The Lafayette County Circuit Court extended its 2017 home baker ruling to all foods that don't need refrigeration. The Court of Appeals put that order on hold on 2023-05-30 and later reversed it.
- , Cottage food in Connecticut: Public Act 22-8 raised the yearly sales cap from $25,000 to $50,000.
- , Cottage food in Missouri: HB 1697 took effect. It removed the $50,000 yearly sales cap and allowed online sales when the seller and buyer are both in Missouri.
- , Cottage food in Louisiana: Act 357 of 2022 (HB 828) raised the yearly sales limit from $20,000 to $30,000.
- , Cottage food in Tennessee: The Tennessee Food Freedom Act (Public Chapter 862, SB 693) took effect. It exempted homemade foods that do not need temperature control from state licensing, permits and inspection, allowed online sales, resale through stores and delivery by carrier within Tennessee, and stopped cities and counties from regulating them.
- , Food truck in New York: New York City's Local Law 18 of 2021 created the supervisory licence. From this date, newly permitted carts and trucks may only operate when the person vending has one, and up to 445 new permits a year are issued for 10 years.
- , Cottage food in Rhode Island: Rhode Island created cottage food registration for home bakers, separate from the older farm home food rules. Registrations could not be issued before November 1, 2022.
- , Cottage food in Iowa: House File 2431 was signed. It created Iowa's cottage food exemption, replaced the home bakery license with the home food processing establishment license, raised that license's sales limit from $35,000 to $50,000, and stopped cities and counties from banning no-impact home businesses.
- , Cottage food in South Carolina: Act 208 of 2022 expanded Section 44-1-143 from candy and baked goods to all non-potentially hazardous foods, allowed online, mail-order and retail store sales, allowed an ID number in place of a home address, dropped "NOT FOR RESALE" from the label statement, and raised the exemption to $1,500.
- , Cottage food in California: AB 1144 took effect. It set the limits at $75,000 (Class A) and $150,000 (Class B), to rise each year with inflation. It let sales be filled by mail or delivery, let Class A sell anywhere in the state, and made one county's registration or permit valid statewide.
- , Cottage food in Illinois: The Home-to-Market Act (Public Act 102-633) let cottage food sellers sell directly to customers anywhere in Illinois, including online, by delivery and by shipping within the state, instead of mainly at farmers markets.
- , Cottage food in Oklahoma: HB 1032 took effect. It turned the Home Bakery Act into the Homemade Food Freedom Act, expanding it from baked goods to most foods, raising the cap from $20,000 to $75,000, and allowing online sales and shipping of shelf-stable foods.
- , Food truck in North Carolina: The state readopted its general rule for food trucks and hot dog carts (15A NCAC 18A .2670) and its adoption of the 2017 FDA Food Code (.2650).
- , Cottage food in West Virginia: HB 2633 (the 2021 Farm Bill) took effect. It replaced "homemade food items" with "nonpotentially hazardous foods", replaced the label wording written into the law with the Department of Agriculture's labeling standards, and allowed home, farm, community and commercial kitchens.
- , Cottage food in Florida: The "Home Sweet Home Act" (HB 663) raised the sales cap from $50,000 to $250,000, allowed mail delivery, and stopped cities and counties from banning or regulating cottage food. It took effect with the home-based business law (HB 403) on July 1, 2021.
- , Cottage food in New Mexico: The Homemade Food Act (House Bill 177) took effect. It replaced NMED's Homebased Food Processor permit with a no-permit system for foods that do not need to be kept hot or cold, sold directly to customers in New Mexico.
- , Cottage food in Arkansas: Act 1040 of 2021, the Food Freedom Act, was approved. It replaced Arkansas's Cottage Food Act (Act 399 of 2017) and allows the sale of homemade food that does not need to be kept hot or cold directly to the final customer, including through stores, online and in other states.
- , Cottage food in Mississippi: HB 326 took effect. It raised the sales cap from $20,000 to $35,000 and allowed cottage food operations to advertise online, including on social media. Online and mail-order sales are still not allowed.
- , Food truck in Florida: HB 1193 (Chapter 2020-160) took effect. It created section 509.102, which stops cities and counties from requiring their own food truck licenses, permits or fees.
- , Cottage food in West Virginia: SB 285 took effect. It let West Virginians make shelf-stable "homemade food items" and sell them without a state license, permit or inspection, including remotely and through stores, and stopped local governments from banning them.
- , Cottage food in Utah: The Home Consumption and Homemade Food Act took effect, letting home producers sell directly to informed customers without a food permit or inspection.
- , Cottage food in North Dakota: House Bill 1433 created the North Dakota Cottage Foods Act, allowing home-made food to be sold directly to informed consumers without a license or inspection.
- , Cottage food in Wyoming: The Wyoming Food Freedom Act (HB 56) took effect, allowing homemade food to be sold directly to informed buyers without a licence or inspection. It has been amended several times since.
- , Food truck in North Carolina: Senate Bill 810 (Session Law 2012-187) let a food truck act as its own commissary if it meets all the sanitation rules for a commissary.