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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "CalWORKs: homeless assistance."
+description: "Existing law establishes the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program under which, through a combination of federal, state, and county funds, each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20192020"
+identifier: "AB 960"
+citation: "California AB 960 (20192020)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CalWORKs: homeless assistance."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Maienschein"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2019-02-21"
+last_action: "2019-10-02"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1038d19e-4a17-4469-aa1f-de7942a53f92"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB960"
+source_hash: "8c56a5ea1cb4af11343389561501ef52d36e6364690d1876554785d2170de2e3"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 960 (20192020) — CalWORKs: homeless assistance.
+
+Existing law establishes the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program under which, through a combination of federal, state, and county funds, each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/21/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB960&version=20190AB96099INT)
+2. **03/20/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB960&version=20190AB96098AMD)
+3. **04/02/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB960&version=20190AB96097AMD)
+4. **05/16/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB960&version=20190AB96096AMD)
+5. **08/30/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB960&version=20190AB96095AMD)
+6. **10/02/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB960&version=20190AB96093CHP)
+7. **AB960** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB960)
+8. **09/11/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB960&version=20190AB96094ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- AB 960 Maienschein Assembly Third Reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower
+- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB960 Maienschein et al. By Portantino — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 960 Maienschein Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Maienschein — primary (person)
+- Chang — coauthor (person)
+- Dodd — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2019-02-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2019-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
+- **2019-03-04** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-03-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
+- **2019-03-21** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 26). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
+- **2019-04-02** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-04-03** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-04-24** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-05-16** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 16). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
+- **2019-05-16** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-05-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2039.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2019-05-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2019-06-06** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-07-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2019-08-12** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2019-08-30** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
+- **2019-08-30** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-09-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2019-09-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2494.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2019-09-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2019-09-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3105.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2019-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
+- **2019-10-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2019-10-02** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 444, Statutes of 2019.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1038d19e-4a17-4469-aa1f-de7942a53f92`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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