---
type: "Bill"
title: "Food stamps: eligibility."
description: "Food stamps: eligibility."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20032004"
identifier: "AB 1796"
citation: "California AB 1796 (20032004)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Food stamps: eligibility."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Leno"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2004-01-07"
last_action: "2004-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a323a514-7af0-44b1-b634-5190e4ae5d8d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1796"
source_hash: "57f620fb69c9a1657131cd02619b825821f5838c3bebe3fe8d6860be4d53ac75"
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 1796 (20032004) — Food stamps: eligibility.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **01/07/04 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1796&version=20030AB179699INT)
2. **04/19/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1796&version=20030AB179698AMD)
3. **05/17/04 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1796&version=20030AB179697AMD)
4. **08/23/04 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1796&version=20030AB179696AMD)
5. **09/30/04 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1796&version=20030AB179694CHP)
6. **AB1796** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1796)
7. **08/27/04 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200320040AB1796&version=20030AB179695ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- ab 1796 leno assembly third reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · legislature
- placed on appropriations suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- assembly 3rd reading ab1796 leno by chesbro — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Leno — primary (person)
- Berg — coauthor (person)
- Goldberg — coauthor (person)
- Hancock — coauthor (person)
- Koretz — coauthor (person)
- Laird — coauthor (person)
- Lieber — coauthor (person)
- Romero — coauthor (person)
- Steinberg — coauthor (person)
- Vasconcellos — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2004-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 932, Statutes of 2004.
- **2004-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2004-09-15** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2004-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 43. Noes 32. Page 7890.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2004-08-26** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 7802.)
- **2004-08-25** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2004-08-25** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 12. Page 5327.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-08-23** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-08-17** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-08-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 5.) (August 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-06-28** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2004-06-17** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2004-06-07** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2004-06-03** Referred to Com. on H. & H.S. `referral-committee`
- **2004-05-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2004-05-24** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 42. Noes 30. Page 5938.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2004-05-17** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-04-19** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2004-04-16** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2004-04-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 5.) (April 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2004-03-24** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (March 23). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2004-01-29** Referred to Standing Committee on Human Services. `referral-committee`
- **2004-01-08** From printer. May be heard in committee February 7.
- **2004-01-07** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a323a514-7af0-44b1-b634-5190e4ae5d8d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).