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Bill	Electronic benefits transfer system.	Existing law provides for the establishment of a statewide electronic benefits transfer (EBT) system, administered by the State Department of Social Services, for the purpose of providing financial and food assistance benefits. Existing law provides that a recipient shall not incur any loss of cash benefits that are taken by an unauthorized withdrawal, removal, or use of benefits, that does not occur by the use of a physical EBT card issued to the recipient or authorized 3rd party, as specified, and requires the prompt replacement of the taken benefits.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2313	California AB 2313 (20172018)	bill	Electronic benefits transfer system.	enacted	Mark Stone	9	26	8	2018-02-13	2018-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/2b3f3114-c220-4a5d-aeb3-ee8e4af3d62b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2313	0ba3011950eb39579aa0d49891f1560c028e08db53b46e5e4dd58d650c52a372	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2313 (20172018) — Electronic benefits transfer system.

Existing law provides for the establishment of a statewide electronic benefits transfer (EBT) system, administered by the State Department of Social Services, for the purpose of providing financial and food assistance benefits. Existing law provides that a recipient shall not incur any loss of cash benefits that are taken by an unauthorized withdrawal, removal, or use of benefits, that does not occur by the use of a physical EBT card issued to the recipient or authorized 3rd party, as specified, and requires the prompt replacement of the taken benefits.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/12/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/14/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/25/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/17/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/21/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/23/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2313 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/31/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2313 STONE Consent Calendar Second Day — 68–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2313 STONE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2313 Mark Stone By Wiener — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Mark Stone — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2018-03-01 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2018-03-12 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
• 2018-03-13 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2018-03-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-04-04 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 4). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-04-05 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 4645.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-04-12 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-04-25 Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2018-06-13 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 12). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-14 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-06-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-07-02 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-08-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-08-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-21 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5781.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-27 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6851.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 712, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2b3f3114-c220-4a5d-aeb3-ee8e4af3d62b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).