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Bill	Qualified ABLE Program: age limit.	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 eligible individuals 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. Under the ABLE Act, pursuant to the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, an eligible individual for a taxable year is an individual entitled to specified benefits based on blindness or disability or for whom there is a disability certification filed with the Secretary of the Treasury, and such blindness or disability occurred before the date on which the individual attained 26 years of age, or, on and after January 1, 2026, 46 years of age.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 339	California AB 339 (20232024)	bill	Qualified ABLE Program age limit	enacted	Irwin	5	24	7	2023-01-30	2023-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/f663fa76-0118-481e-8042-439068044024	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB339	137bac07bcb7dbb2090e5ebbc7425ffdee1473152346405d767e5abff388e74f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 339 (20232024) — Qualified ABLE Program: age limit.

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 eligible individuals 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. Under the ABLE Act, pursuant to the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2023, an eligible individual for a taxable year is an individual entitled to specified benefits based on blindness or disability or for whom there is a disability certification filed with the Secretary of the Treasury, and such blindness or disability occurred before the date on which the individual attained 26 years of age, or, on and after January 1, 2026, 46 years of age.

Version chain

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

1. 01/30/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/14/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 10/07/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB339 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/14/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 339 Irwin Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent AB339 Irwin By Glazer — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Irwin — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-01-30 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-01-31 From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
• 2023-02-09 Referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2023-03-14 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2023-03-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-03-15 Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. referral-committee
• 2023-03-28 In committee: Set, second hearing. Referred to REV. & TAX. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-04-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-05-10 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1751.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-06-07 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2023-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-07-03 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-08 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2023-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2685.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-12 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2023-09-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 324, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f663fa76-0118-481e-8042-439068044024. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).