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Bill	CalFresh: food access.	Existing federal law provides for the 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	20252026	AB 553	California AB 553 (20252026)	bill	CalFresh foodaccess	enacted	Caloza	5	20	5	2025-02-11	2025-07-14	openstates	ocd-bill/1c50d689-0b77-43a8-ae43-07b3ce1e9813	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB553	b83cef1a520d768c60d332b07c5c38bac8de010e29b89faba51ab9c49f05eedb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 553 (20252026) — CalFresh: food access.

Existing federal law provides for the 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. 02/11/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/17/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/14/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB553 (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/08/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Consent Calendar 2nd AB553 Caloza et al. — 35–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 553 Caloza Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Caloza — primary (person)
• Calderon — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-11 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-12 From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
• 2025-02-24 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2025-03-17 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
• 2025-03-18 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2025-03-26 Coauthors revised.
• 2025-03-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-09 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 9). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-10 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1276.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-04-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-05-07 Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2025-06-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-06-30 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-07-01 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-07-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1932.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-07-03 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2025-07-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2025-07-14 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-07-14 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 38, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1c50d689-0b77-43a8-ae43-07b3ce1e9813. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).