---
type: "Bill"
title: "Social services."
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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 121"
citation: "California AB 121 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Social services."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 24
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-12-03"
last_action: "2019-10-02"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/63bfe6c9-5bcd-4edc-9dc9-b23e04c040b1"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB121"
source_hash: "0f70b299b43f620c441782701fb5b4ecf9305b099b151e7c8a7749847691b0ec"
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 121 (20192020) — Social services.

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.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/03/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB121&version=20190AB12199INT)
2. **08/27/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB121&version=20190AB12198AMD)
3. **09/03/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB121&version=20190AB12197AMD)
4. **10/02/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB121&version=20190AB12195CHP)
5. **AB121** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB121)
6. **09/17/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB121&version=20190AB12196ENR)

## Votes

- AB 121 BUDGET Concurrence in Senate Amendments By TING — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 121 Ting Assembly Third Reading — **54–13** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **13–2** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB121 BUDGET (Ting) By Mitchell — **32–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-12-03** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-12-04** From printer. May be heard in committee January 3.
- **2019-01-24** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 15. Page 1032.)
- **2019-04-04** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2019-04-04** Ordered to second reading.
- **2019-04-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 13. Page 1188.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-04-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-04-24** Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2019-08-26** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2019-08-27** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-08-30** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2019-09-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-09-09** Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Ayes 29. Noes 7. Page 2690.)
- **2019-09-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 2.) (September 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-09-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 2. Page 2902.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2019-09-12** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3466.)
- **2019-09-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3469.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-24** 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 414, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/63bfe6c9-5bcd-4edc-9dc9-b23e04c040b1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).