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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "The Qualified ABLE Program: tax-advantaged savings accounts."
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description: "Existing federal law, the Stephen Beck, Jr., Achieving a Better Life Experience Act of 2014 (ABLE Act) , encourages and assists individuals and families to save private funds for the purpose of supporting persons with disabilities to maintain their health, independence, and quality of life by excluding from gross income distributions used for qualified disability expenses by a beneficiary of a qualified ABLE program established and maintained by a state, as specified."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20212022"
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identifier: "AB 2216"
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citation: "California AB 2216 (20212022)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["The Qualified ABLE Program: tax-advantaged savings accounts."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Irwin"]
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version_count: 4
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action_count: 19
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vote_count: 7
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first_action: "2022-02-15"
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last_action: "2022-09-30"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/19cac35a-c4c0-48d5-9da9-68eb814815cc"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2216"
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source_hash: "cdccf5988485e8da00e10dd2ebe1ab958f73bbdc67c163440c00f2a554d160ae"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 2216 (20212022) — The Qualified ABLE Program: tax-advantaged savings accounts.
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Existing federal law, the Stephen Beck, Jr., Achieving a Better Life Experience Act of 2014 (ABLE Act) , encourages and assists individuals and families to save private funds for the purpose of supporting persons with disabilities to maintain their health, independence, and quality of life by excluding from gross income distributions used for qualified disability expenses by a beneficiary of a qualified ABLE program established and maintained by a state, as specified.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/15/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2216&version=20210AB221699INT)
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2. **09/30/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2216&version=20210AB221697CHP)
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3. **AB2216** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2216)
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4. **08/25/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2216&version=20210AB221698ENR)
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## Votes
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- Placed on suspense file — **6–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 2216 Irwin Consent Calendar Second Day — **65–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
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- Special Consent AB2216 — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Irwin — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2022-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2022-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
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- **2022-02-24** Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. `referral-committee`
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- **2022-04-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2022-05-04** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 4). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-05-05** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2022-05-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 4658.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2022-05-12** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2022-05-25** Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
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- **2022-06-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2022-06-27** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2022-08-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-08-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2022-08-22** Ordered to special consent calendar.
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- **2022-08-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4980.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2022-08-23** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
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- **2022-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
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- **2022-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2022-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 896, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/19cac35a-c4c0-48d5-9da9-68eb814815cc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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