---
type: "Bill"
title: "Human services."
description: "(1) 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: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 118"
citation: "California AB 118 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Humanservices"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-01-08"
last_action: "2025-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f906e792-516a-4009-b5b8-f901bd480305"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB118"
source_hash: "3341e7856a5ea195b361c677ce2b5c46dd530e4f405526cb49d4e0c1618c6b37"
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 118 (20252026) — Human services.

(1) 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. **01/08/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB118&version=20250AB11899INT)
2. **06/24/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB118&version=20250AB11898AMD)
3. **06/27/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB118&version=20250AB11896CHP)
4. **AB118** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB118)
5. **06/27/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB118&version=20250AB11897ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB118 BUDGET (Gabriel) By Wiener — **29–3** (pass) · upper
- AB 118 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By GABRIEL — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **13–1** (pass) · upper
- AB 118 Gabriel Assembly Third Reading — **53–17** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-08** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2025-01-09** From printer. May be heard in committee February 8.
- **2025-02-03** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-17** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2025-03-17** Ordered to second reading.
- **2025-03-17** (Ayes 53. Noes 17. Page 643.)
- **2025-03-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-03-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 17. Page 722.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-03-20** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-04-02** Referred to Com. on B. & F. R. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F. R. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 1.) (June 25). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-06-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 3. Page 1805.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-27** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2025-06-27** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 19. Page 2329.)
- **2025-06-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 2333.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-06-27** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:15 p.m.
- **2025-06-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-06-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 7, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f906e792-516a-4009-b5b8-f901bd480305`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).