---
type: "Bill"
title: "CalWORKs: rehabilitation services."
description: "Existing law establishes 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 using federal, state, and county funds. Existing law requires a recipient of CalWORKs to participate in welfare-to-work activities as a condition of eligibility, as specified. Existing law sets forth a statement of legislative intent relating to the CalWORKs program."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 2877"
citation: "California AB 2877 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CalWORKs: rehabilitation services."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Human Services"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2016-02-22"
last_action: "2016-08-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/41781416-8c3d-4aa7-9112-920364f6d29b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2877"
source_hash: "ce5e36b3d9889023b7bce69d1260bf22131eac758f2ffbc42cb4187d31133a4c"
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 2877 (20152016) — CalWORKs: rehabilitation services.

Existing law establishes 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 using federal, state, and county funds. Existing law requires a recipient of CalWORKs to participate in welfare-to-work activities as a condition of eligibility, as specified. Existing law sets forth a statement of legislative intent relating to the CalWORKs program.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2877&version=20150AB287799INT)
2. **08/25/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2877&version=20150AB287797CHP)
3. **AB2877** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2877)
4. **08/12/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2877&version=20150AB287798ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2877 HUM. S. Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB2877 Committee On HUM. S. — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Human Services — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-22** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
- **2016-03-28** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-05-04** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 4). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-05-05** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4790.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-05-12** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-05-19** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-01** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2016-08-02** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4874.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-11** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2016-08-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2016-08-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-08-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 190, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/41781416-8c3d-4aa7-9112-920364f6d29b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).