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Bill	CalFresh: employment social enterprises.	Existing federal law provides for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known in California as CalFresh, under which food assistance benefits are distributed to eligible individuals by the counties. Existing law authorizes counties to participate in the CalFresh Employment and Training Program (CalFresh E&T) , established by federal law, and requires participating counties to screen CalFresh work registrants to determine whether they will participate in, or be deferred from, the CalFresh E&T program.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 415	California AB 415 (20172018)	bill	CalFresh: employment social enterprises.	enacted	Chiu	9	34	3	2017-02-09	2017-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/aad27c8b-8b9b-44cb-9bae-19f7d4cfb0ea	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB415	4622de2868bca529ed8656cf9fed78bff336e18336298afbd79ff311a306fb5e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 415 (20172018) — CalFresh: employment social enterprises.

Existing federal law provides for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, known in California as CalFresh, under which food assistance benefits are distributed to eligible individuals by the counties. Existing law authorizes counties to participate in the CalFresh Employment and Training Program (CalFresh E&T) , established by federal law, and requires participating counties to screen CalFresh work registrants to determine whether they will participate in, or be deferred from, the CalFresh E&T program.

Version chain

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

1. 02/09/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/17/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/17/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/29/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/30/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/28/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB415 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/13/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Consent Calendar 2nd AB415 — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 415 CHIU Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chiu — primary (person)
• Reyes — author (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.
• 2017-03-20 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2017-03-21 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
• 2017-03-22 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2017-04-04 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 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. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-05-17 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
• 2017-05-18 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-05-24 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1857.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-30 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-08 Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2017-06-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-29 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-07-17 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
• 2017-07-18 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-07-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2129.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-07-20 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-08-21 Ordered to the Senate.
• 2017-08-21 In Senate. Held at Desk.
• 2017-08-30 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. reading-3, passage
• 2017-08-30 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-08-30 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 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 2496.). 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 0. Page 3104.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2017-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 340, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/aad27c8b-8b9b-44cb-9bae-19f7d4cfb0ea. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).