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+type: "Bill"
+title: "CalWORKs: family violence option and gender-based violence information."
+description: "Existing law provides for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, under which each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families and individuals. Existing law imposes various requirements on CalWORKs recipients, including the requirement to participate in specified welfare-to-work activities, unless a good cause exception applies. Existing law requires a county to waive a program requirement for a recipient who has been identified as a past or present victim of domestic abuse when it has been determined that good cause under the welfare-to-work requirement exists."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20252026"
+identifier: "AB 969"
+citation: "California AB 969 (20252026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["CalWORKs", "familyviolenceoptionandgender-basedviolenceinformation"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Celeste Rodriguez"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2025-02-20"
+last_action: "2025-10-06"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/94115c88-5edd-42bf-aa32-b3f38f9b16bb"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB969"
+source_hash: "a8dc21cd413618edf6363a15985199b3181597165efb4fb09e8dea921d25e7c1"
+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 969 (20252026) — CalWORKs: family violence option and gender-based violence information.
+
+Existing law provides for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, under which each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families and individuals. Existing law imposes various requirements on CalWORKs recipients, including the requirement to participate in specified welfare-to-work activities, unless a good cause exception applies. Existing law requires a county to waive a program requirement for a recipient who has been identified as a past or present victim of domestic abuse when it has been determined that good cause under the welfare-to-work requirement exists.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/20/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB969&version=20250AB96999INT)
+2. **04/21/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB969&version=20250AB96998AMD)
+3. **05/23/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB969&version=20250AB96997AMD)
+4. **06/26/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB969&version=20250AB96996AMD)
+5. **08/29/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB969&version=20250AB96995AMD)
+6. **09/05/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB969&version=20250AB96994AMD)
+7. **10/06/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB969&version=20250AB96992CHP)
+8. **AB969** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB969)
+9. **09/16/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB969&version=20250AB96993ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Special Consent AB969 Celeste Rodriguez By Durazo — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 969 Celeste Rodriguez Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended. — **11–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 969 Celeste Rodriguez Assembly Third Reading — **79–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Celeste Rodriguez — primary (person)
+- Durazo — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
+- **2025-03-10** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-10** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 8). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-21** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-14** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-23** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
+- **2025-05-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
+- **2025-05-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-06-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1911.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2025-06-11** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-07-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2025-08-18** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-08-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
+- **2025-08-29** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-09-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-09-05** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-09-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-09-09** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2025-09-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2933.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
+- **2025-09-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3383.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-09-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
+- **2025-10-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-10-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 386, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/94115c88-5edd-42bf-aa32-b3f38f9b16bb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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