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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Public social services: CalFresh."
+description: "Existing law requires a county welfare department, to the extent provided by federal law, to provide CalFresh benefits on an expedited basis to certain households."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20112012"
+identifier: "AB 1359"
+citation: "California AB 1359 (20112012)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Public social services: CalFresh."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Skinner"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 6
+first_action: "2011-02-18"
+last_action: "2012-09-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/62465bc4-a1da-4873-aa00-74a065759a5c"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1359"
+source_hash: "f7024a57fa2b22028d25928c7306a82b5a6550fdf3bce99f54155e0daa77a776"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 1359 (20112012) — Public social services: CalFresh.
+
+Existing law requires a county welfare department, to the extent provided by federal law, to provide CalFresh benefits on an expedited basis to certain households.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/18/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1359&version=20110AB135999INT)
+2. **01/04/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1359&version=20110AB135997AMD)
+3. **03/25/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1359&version=20110AB135998AMD)
+4. **08/24/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1359&version=20110AB135996AMD)
+5. **09/23/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1359&version=20110AB135994CHP)
+6. **AB1359** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1359)
+7. **09/11/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1359&version=20110AB135995ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- AB 1359 SKINNER Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 1359 SKINNER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB1359 Skinner By Liu — **36–1** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Skinner — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2011-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2011-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
+- **2011-03-25** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
+- **2011-03-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
+- **2011-03-29** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
+- **2012-01-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
+- **2012-01-04** Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
+- **2012-01-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (January 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2012-01-19** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (January 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2012-01-23** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2012-01-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3607.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2012-01-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2012-02-16** Referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
+- **2012-03-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2012-06-25** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
+- **2012-06-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2012-06-27** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2012-07-02** From Special Consent Calendar pursuant to Joint Rule 22.2.
+- **2012-07-02** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2012-08-24** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
+- **2012-08-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2012-08-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 1. Page 4900.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2012-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2012-08-29** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6488.)
+- **2012-08-29** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6531.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2012-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
+- **2012-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2012-09-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 468, Statutes of 2012.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/62465bc4-a1da-4873-aa00-74a065759a5c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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