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Bill	Veteran service providers.	Existing law establishes the Department of Veterans Affairs. Among other duties, the department is authorized to assist every veteran of any war of the United States and the dependent or survivor of every veteran in presenting and pursuing claims against the United States that the veteran may have arising from war service and in establishing the veteran's or dependent's right to privilege, preference, care, or compensation as provided for by federal or state law, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 1618	California AB 1618 (20172018)	bill	Veteran service providers.	enacted	Cervantes	10	31	2	2017-02-17	2017-10-02	openstates	ocd-bill/7009f47d-1a06-4f9c-9428-3a40c5db882d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1618	48af831e219e28df4f27a23615ca78c1c0a71d3ac4ebf99c8b1ab3bd6df7996f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1618 (20172018) — Veteran service providers.

Existing law establishes the Department of Veterans Affairs. Among other duties, the department is authorized to assist every veteran of any war of the United States and the dependent or survivor of every veteran in presenting and pursuing claims against the United States that the veteran may have arising from war service and in establishing the veteran's or dependent's right to privilege, preference, care, or compensation as provided for by federal or state law, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/27/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/19/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/30/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/18/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/01/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/02/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB1618 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/13/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 1618 CERVANTES Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–1 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Cervantes — primary (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.
• 2017-03-20 Referred to Com. on V.A. referral-committee
• 2017-03-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on V.A. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-03-22 Re-referred to Com. on V.A. referral-committee
• 2017-03-27 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on V.A. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on V.A. referral-committee
• 2017-04-04 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-04-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on V.A. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-04-20 Re-referred to Com. on V.A. referral-committee
• 2017-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-05-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-05-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. 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
• 2017-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1975.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-14 Referred to Com. on V.A. referral-committee
• 2017-07-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-18 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
• 2017-09-06 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2501.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-06 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 8 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 1. Page 3118.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-19 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 416, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7009f47d-1a06-4f9c-9428-3a40c5db882d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).