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Bill	CalFresh Employment and Training program.	Existing law authorizes counties to participate in the CalFresh Employment and Training program (CalFresh E&T) , established by federal law, and requires a participating county to demonstrate in its CalFresh E&T plan how it is effectively using CalFresh E&T funds for each of the specified components that the county offers, including work experience or training and job search. Existing law, for a county that elects to participate in the CalFresh E&T, requires an individual to be deferred from a mandatory placement in CalFresh E&T if he or she satisfies any of various criteria, including, among others, residing in a federally determined work surplus area. Existing federal law limits a participant who is an able-bodied adult without dependents (ABAWD) to 3 months of CalFresh benefits in a 3-year period unless that participant has met specified work participation requirements or is otherwise exempt. Existing law directs the State Department of Social Services to annually seek a federal waiver of this limitation, and provides that an eligible county is included in this waiver.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 563	California AB 563 (20172018)	bill	CalFresh Employment and Training program.	enacted	Arambula	9	30	7	2017-02-14	2017-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/dab79862-1f06-4179-9d6e-d2ace51277a7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB563	bdb0877769c428fce4a1495dbfd200adc984cfb46b9f9af65cdf21f7bf7b3afa	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 563 (20172018) — CalFresh Employment and Training program.

Existing law authorizes counties to participate in the CalFresh Employment and Training program (CalFresh E&T) , established by federal law, and requires a participating county to demonstrate in its CalFresh E&T plan how it is effectively using CalFresh E&T funds for each of the specified components that the county offers, including work experience or training and job search. Existing law, for a county that elects to participate in the CalFresh E&T, requires an individual to be deferred from a mandatory placement in CalFresh E&T if he or she satisfies any of various criteria, including, among others, residing in a federally determined work surplus area. Existing federal law limits a participant who is an able-bodied adult without dependents (ABAWD) to 3 months of CalFresh benefits in a 3-year period unless that participant has met specified work participation requirements or is otherwise exempt. Existing law directs the State Department of Social Services to annually seek a federal waiver of this limitation, and provides that an eligible county is included in this waiver.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/13/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/23/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/21/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/01/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/07/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/28/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB563 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/15/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 563 ARAMBULA Assembly Third Reading — 76–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB563 Arambula et al. By Wiener — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 563 ARAMBULA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–1 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Arambula — primary (person)
• Mayes — coauthor (person)
• Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2017-02-27 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2017-03-13 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
• 2017-03-14 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2017-03-22 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 21). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-03-23 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-03-27 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-05-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-05-26 Coauthors revised.
• 2017-05-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 1. Page 1882.) 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 HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2017-06-21 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
• 2017-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-10 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
• 2017-09-07 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2740.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-09-13 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 25. Page 3255.)
• 2017-09-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 1. Page 3368.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2017-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 343, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/dab79862-1f06-4179-9d6e-d2ace51277a7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).