--- 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).