---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public social services: accommodation: notification."
description: "Existing law directs the Office of Systems Integration within the California Health and Human Services Agency to implement a statewide automated welfare system for specified public assistance programs, including, among others, the CalWORKs program, CalFresh, Medi-Cal, and the foster care program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 735"
citation: "California SB 735 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public social services: accommodation: notification."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Leyva"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-02-22"
last_action: "2019-07-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5c635072-0a10-43f4-9a7e-928ca0f4f5a4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB735"
source_hash: "c3468e6aa94215e7ab81821e44ca9dc6e78a3e12a9e0a6f8c49d1f9d6be96470"
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 SB 735 (20192020) — Public social services: accommodation: notification.

Existing law directs the Office of Systems Integration within the California Health and Human Services Agency to implement a statewide automated welfare system for specified public assistance programs, including, among others, the CalWORKs program, CalFresh, Medi-Cal, and the foster care program.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB735&version=20190SB73599INT)
2. **04/11/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB735&version=20190SB73598AMD)
3. **07/30/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB735&version=20190SB73596CHP)
4. **SB735** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB735)
5. **07/08/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB735&version=20190SB73597ENR)

## Votes

- SB 735 Leyva Consent Calendar Second Day — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar SB735 — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Leyva — primary (person)
- Mathis — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-22** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2019-02-25** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
- **2019-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-14** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** Set for hearing April 22.
- **2019-04-11** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 776.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-26** Set for hearing May 6.
- **2019-05-06** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2019-05-07** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-09** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1004.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-09** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-30** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-19** Coauthors revised.
- **2019-06-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-26** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 26). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-27** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-07-05** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 2549.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-07-05** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2019-07-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2019-07-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 155, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5c635072-0a10-43f4-9a7e-928ca0f4f5a4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).