---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public social services: intercounty transfers."
description: "Existing law provides for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program under which, through a combination of state and county funds and federal funds received through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 1339"
citation: "California SB 1339 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public social services: intercounty transfers."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Monning"]
version_count: 13
action_count: 35
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2016-02-19"
last_action: "2016-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b259b78-718d-46bf-ad13-d8cd1f26cb6e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1339"
source_hash: "30c2ff7440d45b148f4aea5e4aaf438768718b730c9061bd37e514c9a0e891c5"
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 SB 1339 (20152016) — Public social services: intercounty transfers.

Existing law provides for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program under which, through a combination of state and county funds and federal funds received through the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) program, 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. **02/19/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1339&version=20150SB133999INT)
2. **03/28/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1339&version=20150SB133998AMD)
3. **03/31/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1339&version=20150SB133997AMD)
4. **04/11/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1339&version=20150SB133996AMD)
5. **04/21/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1339&version=20150SB133995AMD)
6. **05/31/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1339&version=20150SB133994AMD)
7. **06/16/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1339&version=20150SB133993AMD)
8. **06/30/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1339&version=20150SB133992AMD)
9. **08/01/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1339&version=20150SB133991AMD)
10. **08/19/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1339&version=20150SB133990AMD)
11. **09/29/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1339&version=20150SB133988CHP)
12. **SB1339** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1339)
13. **08/29/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1339&version=20150SB133989ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 1339 Monning Senate Third Reading By L. & E. Amendment Set #1 — **73–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 1339 Monning Senate Third Reading By BONILLA — **77–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Health] — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB1339 Monning Concurrence — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Monning — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-19** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2016-02-22** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
- **2016-02-22** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2016-03-03** Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-09** Set for hearing March 29.
- **2016-03-28** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-03-30** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 3311.) (March 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-03-31** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-08** Set for hearing April 20.
- **2016-04-11** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-21** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-27** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2016-04-27** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-06** Set for hearing May 16.
- **2016-05-16** May 16 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2016-05-20** Set for hearing May 27.
- **2016-05-27** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4008.) (May 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-05-31** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-06-01** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4109.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-02** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2016-06-09** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-16** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-29** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-06-30** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-01** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (August 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-08-04** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-19** Read third time and amended. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5951.) `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-19** Ordered to third reading.
- **2016-08-22** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 1. Page 6017.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-22** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2016-08-25** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5423.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-08-31** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 6 p.m.
- **2016-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 801, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2b259b78-718d-46bf-ad13-d8cd1f26cb6e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).