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Bill	Lifting Children and Families Out of Poverty Task Force.	Existing law establishes various programs that provide cash assistance and other benefits relating to health care, food, and housing, among other things, to qualified low-income families and individuals, including, among others, the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, the California Earned Income Tax Credit, Medi-Cal, CalFresh, the California Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC Program) , and the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 1520	California AB 1520 (20172018)	bill	Lifting Children and Families Out of Poverty Task Force.	enacted	Burke	11	33	3	2017-02-17	2017-10-02	openstates	ocd-bill/301c4243-7ed8-40ee-b32c-eeb8103bdda8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1520	9c83cb5d873bbe1249d3df3af2cad205a83a748498d2b469f274857ec6d294b6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1520 (20172018) — Lifting Children and Families Out of Poverty Task Force.

Existing law establishes various programs that provide cash assistance and other benefits relating to health care, food, and housing, among other things, to qualified low-income families and individuals, including, among others, the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, the California Earned Income Tax Credit, Medi-Cal, CalFresh, the California Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC Program) , and the Emergency Housing and Assistance Program.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/17/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/30/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/05/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/17/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/01/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/06/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/08/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 10/02/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB1520 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/19/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1520 BURKE Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Burke — primary (person)
• Anderson — coauthor (person)
• Baker — coauthor (person)
• Bradford — coauthor (person)
• Chiu — coauthor (person)
• Cooper — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Gloria — coauthor (person)
• Limón — coauthor (person)
• Mayes — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — author (person)
• Steinorth — coauthor (person)
• Thurmond — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2017-03-16 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2017-04-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-04-18 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2017-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-05-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-05-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-05-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-30 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 52. Noes 24. Page 1776.)
• 2017-05-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2074.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-05 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-14 Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2017-07-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-13 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-17 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-08-21 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-05 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2017-09-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-09-08 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-09-11 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2017-09-11 Ordered to second reading.
• 2017-09-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2858.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2017-09-15 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3456.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2017-10-02 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-02 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 415, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/301c4243-7ed8-40ee-b32c-eeb8103bdda8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).