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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: "CalFresh."
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description: "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. Existing federal law authorizes states to provide transitional SNAP benefits to households that are terminating their participation in a TANF-funded or state maintenance of effort-funded cash assistance program, or a state-funded cash assistance program that provides assistance to families with children."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20172018"
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identifier: "AB 1892"
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citation: "California AB 1892 (20172018)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["CalFresh."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Jones-Sawyer"]
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version_count: 8
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action_count: 24
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2018-01-18"
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last_action: "2018-09-14"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b2a9a925-ae6e-4e27-8022-6b72d39165c5"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1892"
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source_hash: "6a1fd4128a55ace84622872c37fe2c3f8aa61ea6e19ebd0036a04a3ab7cb8efe"
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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 1892 (20172018) — CalFresh.
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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. Existing federal law authorizes states to provide transitional SNAP benefits to households that are terminating their participation in a TANF-funded or state maintenance of effort-funded cash assistance program, or a state-funded cash assistance program that provides assistance to families with children.
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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. **01/18/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1892&version=20170AB189299INT)
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2. **02/27/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1892&version=20170AB189298AMD)
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3. **04/30/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1892&version=20170AB189297AMD)
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4. **06/14/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1892&version=20170AB189296AMD)
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5. **08/15/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1892&version=20170AB189295AMD)
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6. **09/14/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1892&version=20170AB189293CHP)
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7. **AB1892** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1892)
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8. **08/24/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1892&version=20170AB189294ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass. — **10–5** (pass) · lower
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- AB 1892 JONES-SAWYER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **70–1** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 1892 JONES-SAWYER Assembly Third Reading — **63–2** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading AB1892 Jones-Sawyer By Mitchell — **34–3** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–1** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Jones-Sawyer — primary (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2018-01-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2018-01-19** From printer. May be heard in committee February 18.
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- **2018-02-05** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2018-02-27** 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-2, reading-1`
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- **2018-02-28** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2018-03-07** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (March 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2018-04-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 5.) (April 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2018-04-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2018-04-30** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 4932.) `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2018-05-07** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 2. Page 5032.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2018-05-07** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2018-05-17** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
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- **2018-06-13** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 12). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2018-06-14** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
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- **2018-07-02** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
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- **2018-07-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2018-08-15** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2018-08-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2018-08-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 3. Page 5455.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2018-08-20** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
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- **2018-08-23** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 70. Noes 1. Page 6493.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
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- **2018-08-28** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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- **2018-09-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2018-09-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 381, Statutes of 2018.
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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/b2a9a925-ae6e-4e27-8022-6b72d39165c5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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