---
type: "Bill"
title: "CalWORKs: postsecondary education."
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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 1232"
citation: "California SB 1232 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CalWORKs: postsecondary education."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Glazer"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 31
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2020-02-20"
last_action: "2020-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d67ee302-209e-4cb0-b6c2-6cb171f95e22"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1232"
source_hash: "720575aba68f64a281aae60851a7eeb6769e02c44c1f17bc03a6197a245c5070"
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 1232 (20192020) — CalWORKs: postsecondary education.

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.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1232&version=20190SB123299INT)
2. **05/21/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1232&version=20190SB123298AMD)
3. **06/18/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1232&version=20190SB123297AMD)
4. **07/27/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1232&version=20190SB123296AMD)
5. **08/19/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1232&version=20190SB123295AMD)
6. **09/30/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1232&version=20190SB123293CHP)
7. **SB1232** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1232)
8. **09/04/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB1232&version=20190SB123294ENR)

## Votes

- Unfinished Business SB1232 Glazer et al. Concurrence — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 1232 Glazer Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SB1232 — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Glazer — primary (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)
- Wiener — coauthor (person)
- Wilk — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-02-20** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2020-02-21** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
- **2020-03-05** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
- **2020-03-13** Set for hearing March 23.
- **2020-03-23** March 23 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2020-05-08** Set for hearing May 19.
- **2020-05-20** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3560.) (May 19). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2020-05-21** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-06-03** Set for hearing June 9.
- **2020-06-09** June 9 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2020-06-11** Set for hearing June 18.
- **2020-06-18** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3770.) (June 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2020-06-18** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-25** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2020-06-25** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 3842.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-25** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2020-06-29** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-09** July 20 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2020-07-27** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-08-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2020-08-18** From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2020-08-19** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-30** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5283.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-30** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2020-08-30** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2020-08-30** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2020-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 366, Statutes of 2020.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d67ee302-209e-4cb0-b6c2-6cb171f95e22`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).