republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/sb-278.md

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Bill	CalFresh: overissuance.	Existing law provides for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) , administered in California as CalFresh, under which each county distributes nutrition assistance benefits provided by the federal government to eligible households. Existing law requires each county human services agency to carry out the local administrative responsibilities of this program, subject to the supervision of the State Department of Social Services and to rules and regulations adopted by the department. Existing law requires current and future CalFresh benefits to be reduced, as specified, to recover an overissuance caused by administrative error if required by federal law, or if the overissuance exceeds $125 or the minimum cost-effective threshold for collecting overissuances that the department is authorized to establish, whichever is greater.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 278	California SB 278 (20172018)	bill	CalFresh: overissuance.	enacted	Wiener	9	33	8	2017-02-09	2017-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/d92daa3e-2c0e-48de-a261-aeb44278700d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB278	becb19fa1cd1a348daddea7840654be02cbb91f5e638459a070cf81631097a21	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 278 (20172018) — CalFresh: overissuance.

Existing law provides for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) , administered in California as CalFresh, under which each county distributes nutrition assistance benefits provided by the federal government to eligible households. Existing law requires each county human services agency to carry out the local administrative responsibilities of this program, subject to the supervision of the State Department of Social Services and to rules and regulations adopted by the department. Existing law requires current and future CalFresh benefits to be reduced, as specified, to recover an overissuance caused by administrative error if required by federal law, or if the overissuance exceeds $125 or the minimum cost-effective threshold for collecting overissuances that the department is authorized to establish, whichever is greater.

Version chain

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

1. 02/09/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/27/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/26/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/03/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/18/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/31/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/30/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB278 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/08/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent Calendar # SB278 — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 278 Wiener Senate Third Reading By STONE — 75–1 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wiener — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-09 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2017-02-10 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 12.
• 2017-02-23 Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2017-02-28 Set for hearing March 28.
• 2017-03-21 March 28 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2017-03-22 Set for hearing April 25.
• 2017-04-26 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 849.) (April 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-04-27 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-05-04 Set for hearing May 15.
• 2017-05-15 May 15 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2017-05-19 Set for hearing May 25.
• 2017-05-25 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1181.) (May 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-05-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-26 Published May 26 at 10 a.m.
• 2017-05-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1317.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-06-12 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2017-07-03 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-07-17 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-07-18 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2017-08-23 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-08-28 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Calderon.
• 2017-08-28 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-08-31 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-09-05 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 1. Page 2968.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-05 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2017-09-06 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2017-09-07 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2583.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2017-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 388, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d92daa3e-2c0e-48de-a261-aeb44278700d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).