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Bill	Public social services: CalFresh.	Existing law requires a county welfare department, to the extent provided by federal law, to provide CalFresh benefits on an expedited basis to certain households.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1359	California AB 1359 (20112012)	bill	Public social services: CalFresh.	enacted	Skinner	7	28	6	2011-02-18	2012-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/62465bc4-a1da-4873-aa00-74a065759a5c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1359	f7024a57fa2b22028d25928c7306a82b5a6550fdf3bce99f54155e0daa77a776	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1359 (20112012) — Public social services: CalFresh.

Existing law requires a county welfare department, to the extent provided by federal law, to provide CalFresh benefits on an expedited basis to certain households.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/04/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/25/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/24/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/23/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1359 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/11/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1359 SKINNER Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1359 SKINNER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1359 Skinner By Liu — 36–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Skinner — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2011-03-25 Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2011-03-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2012-01-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-01-04 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2012-01-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (January 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-01-19 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (January 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-01-23 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-01-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3607.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-01-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-02-16 Referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
• 2012-03-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-25 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2012-06-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-06-27 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2012-07-02 From Special Consent Calendar pursuant to Joint Rule 22.2.
• 2012-07-02 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 1. Page 4900.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-29 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6488.)
• 2012-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6531.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 468, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/62465bc4-a1da-4873-aa00-74a065759a5c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).