---
type: "Bill"
title: "Electronic benefits transfer system."
description: "Existing law provides for the establishment of a statewide electronic benefits transfer (EBT) system, administered by the State Department of Social Services, for the purpose of providing financial and food assistance benefits. Existing law provides that a recipient shall not incur any loss of cash benefits that are taken by an unauthorized withdrawal, removal, or use of benefits, that does not occur by the use of a physical EBT card issued to the recipient or authorized 3rd party, as specified, and requires the prompt replacement of the taken benefits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 2313"
citation: "California AB 2313 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Electronic benefits transfer system."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mark Stone"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 26
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2018-02-13"
last_action: "2018-09-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b3f3114-c220-4a5d-aeb3-ee8e4af3d62b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2313"
source_hash: "0ba3011950eb39579aa0d49891f1560c028e08db53b46e5e4dd58d650c52a372"
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 2313 (20172018) — Electronic benefits transfer system.

Existing law provides for the establishment of a statewide electronic benefits transfer (EBT) system, administered by the State Department of Social Services, for the purpose of providing financial and food assistance benefits. Existing law provides that a recipient shall not incur any loss of cash benefits that are taken by an unauthorized withdrawal, removal, or use of benefits, that does not occur by the use of a physical EBT card issued to the recipient or authorized 3rd party, as specified, and requires the prompt replacement of the taken benefits.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/13/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2313&version=20170AB231399INT)
2. **03/12/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2313&version=20170AB231398AMD)
3. **06/14/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2313&version=20170AB231397AMD)
4. **06/25/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2313&version=20170AB231396AMD)
5. **08/17/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2313&version=20170AB231395AMD)
6. **08/21/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2313&version=20170AB231394AMD)
7. **09/23/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2313&version=20170AB231392CHP)
8. **AB2313** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2313)
9. **08/31/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2313&version=20170AB231393ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2313 STONE Consent Calendar Second Day — **68–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2313 STONE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2313 Mark Stone By Wiener — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mark Stone — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2018-03-01** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-03-13** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-04** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 4). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-04-05** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-04-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 4645.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-04-12** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-04-25** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-13** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 12). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-06-14** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2018-06-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-07-02** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2018-08-17** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-08-17** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-21** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2018-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5781.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-27** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2018-08-29** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6851.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-09-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2018-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 712, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2b3f3114-c220-4a5d-aeb3-ee8e4af3d62b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).