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Bill	Electronic benefits transfer cards.	Existing law, administered by the State Department of Social Services, provides for the establishment of a statewide electronic benefits transfer (EBT) system for the purpose of providing financial and food assistance benefits to needy Californians. Under existing law, a recipient does not incur any loss of electronic benefits if his or her EBT card or personal identification number has been lost or stolen.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 2035	California AB 2035 (20112012)	bill	Electronic benefits transfer cards.	enacted	Bradford	7	25	8	2012-02-23	2012-09-14	openstates	ocd-bill/7060bfc4-0957-45b7-89a5-4b3015dc73a8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2035	0ace14d7016922cff5d9a93c7a2504181fbcdf879522e37e8c8054eb0ba9687f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2035 (20112012) — Electronic benefits transfer cards.

Existing law, administered by the State Department of Social Services, provides for the establishment of a statewide electronic benefits transfer (EBT) system for the purpose of providing financial and food assistance benefits to needy Californians. Under existing law, a recipient does not incur any loss of electronic benefits if his or her EBT card or personal identification number has been lost or stolen.

Version chain

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

1. 02/23/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/16/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/18/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/21/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/14/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB2035 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/06/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2035 BRADFORD Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2035 Bradford By Emmerson — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2035 BRADFORD Assembly Third Reading — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bradford — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-23 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2012-03-08 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2012-04-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-04-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 25). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-04-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4595.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-04-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-05-17 Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2012-06-15 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 12). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-06-18 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-07-02 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2012-08-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-21 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4754.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-27 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6357.)
• 2012-08-28 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 1. Page 6457.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5:10 p.m.
• 2012-09-14 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-14 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 319, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7060bfc4-0957-45b7-89a5-4b3015dc73a8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).