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Bill	Qualifying accounts for direct deposit of publicly administered funds.	(1) Existing law requires unemployment compensation benefits administered by the Employment Development Department (EDD) , child support payments made through the State Disbursement Unit of the Department of Child Support Services, and specified public assistance payments, including payments made under the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, that are directly deposited to an account of the recipient's choice to be deposited into a qualifying account. Existing law defines "qualifying account" for these purposes to mean either a demand deposit or savings account at an insured financial institution in the name of the person entitled to receipt of the payments, as applicable, or a prepaid card account that meets certain requirements, including that the prepaid card account may not be attached to any credit or overdraft feature that is automatically repaid from the account after delivery of the payment.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 497	California SB 497 (20212022)	bill	Qualifying accounts for direct deposit of publicly administered funds.	enacted	Limón	8	35	10	2021-02-17	2021-10-05	openstates	ocd-bill/cbb8fa69-1c1e-4775-8f7d-bbebe8ad5a86	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB497	6736b3df721435784297771d38dfb195a77a1c4cd8405122cb09744490a6652e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 497 (20212022) — Qualifying accounts for direct deposit of publicly administered funds.

(1) Existing law requires unemployment compensation benefits administered by the Employment Development Department (EDD) , child support payments made through the State Disbursement Unit of the Department of Child Support Services, and specified public assistance payments, including payments made under the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, that are directly deposited to an account of the recipient's choice to be deposited into a qualifying account. Existing law defines "qualifying account" for these purposes to mean either a demand deposit or savings account at an insured financial institution in the name of the person entitled to receipt of the payments, as applicable, or a prepaid card account that meets certain requirements, including that the prepaid card account may not be attached to any credit or overdraft feature that is automatically repaid from the account after delivery of the payment.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/13/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/22/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/21/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/16/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/05/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB497 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/01/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 497 Limón Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB497 Limón et al. Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• 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
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB497 Limón et al. — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Limón — primary (person)
• Bauer-Kahan — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2021-02-18 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
• 2021-02-22 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
• 2021-02-22 (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
• 2021-02-22 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
• 2021-02-25 Referred to Coms. on B. & F.I. and HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2021-03-04 Set for hearing April 7.
• 2021-04-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUMAN S. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 702.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-09 Set for hearing April 20.
• 2021-04-13 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-21 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 857.) (April 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-22 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-04-30 Set for hearing May 10.
• 2021-05-10 May 10 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2021-05-14 Set for hearing May 20.
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1194.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1316.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-06-10 Referred to Coms. on B. & F. and HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2021-06-14 Assembly Rule 56 suspended.
• 2021-06-21 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on B. & F. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-25 June 28 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2021-06-28 Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. (Ayes 56. Noes 19. Page 2124.)
• 2021-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 29). Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-19 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-23 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2523.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-26 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2214.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-03 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2021-10-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 546, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cbb8fa69-1c1e-4775-8f7d-bbebe8ad5a86. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).