republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-712.md

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Bill	CalFresh: hot and prepared foods.	Existing law establishes various public social services programs, including, among others, the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, CalFresh, and the Medi-Cal program. Existing federal law provides for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) , known in California as CalFresh, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 712	California AB 712 (20232024)	bill	CalFresh hot and prepared foods	enacted	Wendy Carrillo	5	19	5	2023-02-13	2023-07-27	openstates	ocd-bill/29a48d47-3cb7-4e9b-809f-0b6412bca0c7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB712	0435540def5792e92ef9f4a6d7de1cd616ce5c86f7f4c5709ef23c7430e3be74	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 712 (20232024) — CalFresh: hot and prepared foods.

Existing law establishes various public social services programs, including, among others, the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, CalFresh, and the Medi-Cal program. Existing federal law provides for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) , known in California as CalFresh, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/16/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/27/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB712 (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/14/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 712 Wendy Carrillo Consent Calendar Second Day — 66–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar AB712 Wendy Carrillo — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wendy Carrillo — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2023-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2023-03-16 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2023-03-16 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-1, reading-2
• 2023-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2023-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-05-03 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 3). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-04 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 1523.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2023-05-24 Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2023-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-07-10 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2023-07-11 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-07-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2039.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-07-13 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2023-07-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2023-07-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-07-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 121, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/29a48d47-3cb7-4e9b-809f-0b6412bca0c7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).