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Bill	Veterans benefits: veteran farmers or ranchers.	Existing law establishes the Labor and Workforce Development Agency and provides that the agency consists of, among other entities, the California Workforce Development Board, the Employment Development Department, and the Employment Training Panel. Existing law establishes within state government a Department of Veterans Affairs and a Department of Food and Agriculture. Existing law provides for a variety of state benefits to veterans, including those relating to educational assistance and farm and home purchases, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 376	California AB 376 (20172018)	bill	Veterans benefits: veteran farmers or ranchers.	enacted	Chávez	7	28	4	2017-02-09	2017-09-01	openstates	ocd-bill/81b7a2bf-65ca-4c47-9493-afd8a31d945d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB376	32a9f0e739ddeaa93edeee6b4776cf7bd013b25ff066f577de735a8a21909ac5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 376 (20172018) — Veterans benefits: veteran farmers or ranchers.

Existing law establishes the Labor and Workforce Development Agency and provides that the agency consists of, among other entities, the California Workforce Development Board, the Employment Development Department, and the Employment Training Panel. Existing law establishes within state government a Department of Veterans Affairs and a Department of Food and Agriculture. Existing law provides for a variety of state benefits to veterans, including those relating to educational assistance and farm and home purchases, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/09/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/07/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/19/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/06/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/01/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB376 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/22/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 376 CHÁVEZ Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 376 CHÁVEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd AB376 — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chávez — primary (person)
• Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
• Baker — coauthor (person)
• Cunningham — coauthor (person)
• Mathis — coauthor (person)
• Nielsen — coauthor (person)
• Salas — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-09 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-10 From printer. May be heard in committee March 12.
• 2017-02-21 Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and V.A. referral-committee
• 2017-02-28 Coauthors revised.
• 2017-03-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-03-08 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2017-03-13 Coauthors revised.
• 2017-03-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on V.A. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 15). Re-referred to Com. on V.A. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-05 Coauthors revised.
• 2017-04-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-19 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-04-20 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-04-26 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-04-27 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1389.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-05-18 Referred to Coms. on V.A. and AGRI. referral-committee
• 2017-06-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on V.A. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on AGRI. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on AGRI. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-10 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
• 2017-07-11 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-07-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2022.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-07-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-08-21 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2673.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-08-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2017-09-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-09-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 188, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/81b7a2bf-65ca-4c47-9493-afd8a31d945d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).