---
type: "Bill"
title: "Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)."
description: "This measure would urge the United States Congress to avoid any cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) , which could harm the state's children, older adults, and families, and impact the state's economic well-being."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "SJR 3"
citation: "California SJR 3 (20252026)"
classification: ["joint resolution"]
subjects: ["SupplementalNutritionAssistanceProgram(SNAP)"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Arreguín"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-03-27"
last_action: "2025-07-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c67f2130-f86d-4d11-b58f-66ac122989c1"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SJR3"
source_hash: "688183eb7f20228428c1b5b9091de3c017dba728f639d0d545dbe2a40f43aa2d"
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 SJR 3 (20252026) — Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

This measure would urge the United States Congress to avoid any cuts to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) , which could harm the state's children, older adults, and families, and impact the state's economic well-being.

## Version chain

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

1. **03/27/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SJR3&version=20250SJR399INT)
2. **07/18/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SJR3&version=20250SJR397CHP)
3. **SJR3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SJR3)
4. **07/16/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SJR3&version=20250SJR398ENR)

## Votes

- Be adopted and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Be adopted. To third reading. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- SJR 3 Arreguín Senate Third Reading By Calderon — **72–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SJR3 Arreguín et al. — **38–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Arreguín — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Ahrens — coauthor (person)
- Alanis — coauthor (person)
- Alvarez — coauthor (person)
- Arambula — coauthor (person)
- Bains — coauthor (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Berman — coauthor (person)
- Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
- Boerner — coauthor (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Caloza — coauthor (person)
- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Castillo — coauthor (person)
- Celeste Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Chen — coauthor (person)
- Connolly — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Dixon — coauthor (person)
- Elhawary — coauthor (person)
- Fong — coauthor (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Hadwick — coauthor (person)
- Haney — coauthor (person)
- Harabedian — coauthor (person)
- Hart — coauthor (person)
- Hoover — coauthor (person)
- Irwin — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Jeff Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Krell — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
- Macedo — coauthor (person)
- Mark González — coauthor (person)
- Michelle Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- Ortega — coauthor (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Papan — coauthor (person)
- Patel — coauthor (person)
- Pellerin — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — coauthor (person)
- Ransom — coauthor (person)
- Rivas — coauthor (person)
- Rogers — coauthor (person)
- Sanchez — coauthor (person)
- Schiavo — coauthor (person)
- Sharp-Collins — coauthor (person)
- Solache — coauthor (person)
- Soria — coauthor (person)
- Stefani — coauthor (person)
- Ta — coauthor (person)
- Tangipa — coauthor (person)
- Valencia — coauthor (person)
- Wallis — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Weber Pierson — author (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)
- Zbur — coauthor (person)
- Ávila Farías — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-03-27** Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS. `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-04** Set for hearing April 21.
- **2025-04-22** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 812.) (April 21). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-04-23** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-04-24** From consent calendar on motion of Senator Arreguín.
- **2025-04-24** Ordered to third reading.
- **2025-05-05** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1010.) Ordered to the Assembly. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2025-05-05** In Assembly. Held at Desk.
- **2025-05-12** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-17** Coauthors revised.
- **2025-06-17** From committee: Be adopted. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 17). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-07-14** Coauthors revised.
- **2025-07-14** Read. Adopted. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2537.) Ordered to the Senate. `amendment-passage, passage, reading-1`
- **2025-07-15** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2025-07-18** Enrolled and filed with the Secretary of State at 1 p.m.
- **2025-07-18** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Res. Chapter 151, 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/c67f2130-f86d-4d11-b58f-66ac122989c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).