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Bill	California Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children.	Existing law, the California Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC Program) , authorizes establishment of a statewide program, administered by the State Department of Public Health, for providing nutritional food supplements to low-income pregnant women, low-income postpartum and lactating women, and low-income infants and children under 5 years of age, who have been determined to be at nutritional risk. The program, which implements a program authorized under existing federal law, provides for the redemption of nutrition coupons by recipients at any authorized retail food vendor. Existing law requires the department to authorize an appropriate number and distribution of WIC Program retail food vendors, and requires the department to establish certain criteria to limit the number of vendors.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 2322	California AB 2322 (20112012)	bill	California Special Supplemental Food Program for Women Infants and Children.	enacted	Gatto	8	38	9	2012-02-24	2012-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/6657ec42-cab9-47f1-afca-4d0d183abecb	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2322	0c880ceb2eba269174fefc8508c1e0bebdc840553e3b7794fda1acf80060d565	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2322 (20112012) — California Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children.

Existing law, the California Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC Program) , authorizes establishment of a statewide program, administered by the State Department of Public Health, for providing nutritional food supplements to low-income pregnant women, low-income postpartum and lactating women, and low-income infants and children under 5 years of age, who have been determined to be at nutritional risk. The program, which implements a program authorized under existing federal law, provides for the redemption of nutrition coupons by recipients at any authorized retail food vendor. Existing law requires the department to authorize an appropriate number and distribution of WIC Program retail food vendors, and requires the department to establish certain criteria to limit the number of vendors.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/11/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/01/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/22/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/29/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2322 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/11/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2322 Gatto By Evans Urgency Clause — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2322 GATTO Consent Calendar Second Day — 70–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent #15 — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2322 GATTO Concurrence - Urgency Added — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• amendments be concurred in. — 16–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gatto — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-24 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2012-02-26 From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
• 2012-02-27 Read first time. reading-1
• 2012-03-22 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2012-03-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-03-27 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2012-04-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-04-12 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2012-04-30 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-01 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-02 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-05-16 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-17 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 4985.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-25 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-06-07 Referred to Com. on HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2012-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-07-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-07-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-07-05 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2012-07-06 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4322.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-07-06 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2012-08-06 Withdrawn from Engrossing and Enrolling.
• 2012-08-06 Ordered to the Senate.
• 2012-08-06 In Senate. Held at Desk.
• 2012-08-22 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. reading-3, passage
• 2012-08-22 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-30 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5023.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-30 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2012-08-30 Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2012-08-31 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 31). committee-passage
• 2012-08-31 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 6787.)
• 2012-08-31 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6788.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 787, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6657ec42-cab9-47f1-afca-4d0d183abecb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).