---
type: "Bill"
title: "CalFresh: hot and prepared foods."
description: "Existing law establishes various public social services programs, including, among others, the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, CalFresh, and the Medi-Cal program. Existing federal law provides for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) , known in California as CalFresh, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 712"
citation: "California AB 712 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CalFresh", "hot and prepared foods"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wendy Carrillo"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-13"
last_action: "2023-07-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/29a48d47-3cb7-4e9b-809f-0b6412bca0c7"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB712"
source_hash: "0435540def5792e92ef9f4a6d7de1cd616ce5c86f7f4c5709ef23c7430e3be74"
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 712 (20232024) — CalFresh: hot and prepared foods.

Existing law establishes various public social services programs, including, among others, the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, CalFresh, and the Medi-Cal program. Existing federal law provides for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) , known in California as CalFresh, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/13/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB712&version=20230AB71299INT)
2. **03/16/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB712&version=20230AB71298AMD)
3. **07/27/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB712&version=20230AB71296CHP)
4. **AB712** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB712)
5. **07/14/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB712&version=20230AB71297ENR)

## Votes

- AB 712 Wendy Carrillo Consent Calendar Second Day — **66–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB712 Wendy Carrillo — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wendy Carrillo — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2023-03-16** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-16** 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-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-20** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-03** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 3). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-04** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 1523.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-24** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-10** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2023-07-11** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-07-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2039.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-07-13** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2023-07-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2023-07-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-07-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 121, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/29a48d47-3cb7-4e9b-809f-0b6412bca0c7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).