republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-1747.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Food assistance: higher education students."
description: "(1) Existing federal law provides for the 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. Existing state law authorizes a county to deliver CalFresh benefits through the use of an electronic benefits transfer (EBT) system. Existing federal law authorizes counties to participate in the Restaurant Meals Program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 1747"
citation: "California AB 1747 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Food assistance: higher education students."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Weber"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 31
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2016-02-02"
last_action: "2016-09-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4ce16530-fd3f-418a-99af-c2575f26eeb0"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1747"
source_hash: "4c53ffa6ff60987df96386e97d209b18c6e6ba161c70023e8da979246fbfdae8"
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 1747 (20152016) — Food assistance: higher education students.

(1) Existing federal law provides for the 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. Existing state law authorizes a county to deliver CalFresh benefits through the use of an electronic benefits transfer (EBT) system. Existing federal law authorizes counties to participate in the Restaurant Meals Program.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/02/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1747&version=20150AB174799INT)
2. **03/28/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1747&version=20150AB174798AMD)
3. **04/04/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1747&version=20150AB174797AMD)
4. **05/11/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1747&version=20150AB174796AMD)
5. **05/31/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1747&version=20150AB174795AMD)
6. **06/30/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1747&version=20150AB174794AMD)
7. **08/15/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1747&version=20150AB174793AMD)
8. **09/12/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1747&version=20150AB174791CHP)
9. **AB1747** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1747)
10. **08/25/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1747&version=20150AB174792ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **14–5** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services] — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **4–1** (pass) · upper
- AB 1747 WEBER Assembly Third Reading — **70–7** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1747 Weber By Hancock — **30–7** (pass) · upper
- AB 1747 WEBER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **67–13** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Higher Education] — **5–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Weber — primary (person)
- Chiu — coauthor (person)
- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Hancock — coauthor (person)
- Leyva — coauthor (person)
- Lopez — coauthor (person)
- Williams — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-02** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-02-03** From printer. May be heard in committee March 4.
- **2016-02-25** Referred to Coms. on HUM. S. and HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-03-29** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (March 29). Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-05** Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-05-11** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-05-12** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-18** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-27** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 5.) (May 27). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-05-31** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-06-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-06-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 7. Page 5216.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-06** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-06-09** Referred to Coms. on ED. and HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUMAN S. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 28). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-06-30** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-01** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2016-08-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-15** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 7. Page 5052.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-17** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 19 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2016-08-23** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 13. Page 6124.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2016-09-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 290, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4ce16530-fd3f-418a-99af-c2575f26eeb0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).