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Bill	CalWORKs and CalFresh.	Existing law requires each county to provide cash assistance and other social services to needy families through the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program using federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) block grant program, state, and county funds.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 6	California AB 6 (20112012)	bill	CalWORKs and CalFresh.	enacted	Fuentes	6	22	8	2010-12-06	2011-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/25211cf2-ded6-4e14-876b-f5ea80ce1a77	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB6	44c63563d4f18122e880460ad1da0bbfd8bced5f78fce90ffe5bc9ac679e46fb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 6 (20112012) — CalWORKs and CalFresh.

Existing law requires each county to provide cash assistance and other social services to needy families through the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program using federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) block grant program, state, and county funds.

Version chain

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

1. 12/06/10 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/12/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/30/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/06/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB6 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/08/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 4–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 6–3 (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 6 FUENTES Assembly Third Reading — 49–27 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB6 Fuentes By Leno — 27–11 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 11–6 (pass) · lower
• AB 6 FUENTES Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 50–26 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Fuentes — primary (person)
• Beall — coauthor (person)
• Blumenfield — coauthor (person)
• Bonnie Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
• Dickinson — coauthor (person)
• Hall — coauthor (person)
• Padilla — coauthor (person)
• Pavley — coauthor (person)
• Roger Hernández — coauthor (person)
• Skinner — coauthor (person)
• Solorio — coauthor (person)
• Yamada — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2010-12-06 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2010-12-07 From printer. May be heard in committee January 6.
• 2011-01-24 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2011-04-11 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (April 5). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-12 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-04-13 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2011-05-04 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2011-05-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 6.) (May 27). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 49. Noes 27. Page 1700.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-08 Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2011-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-15 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2011-08-29 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (August 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 11. Page 2193.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2011-09-02 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 50. Noes 26. Page 2860.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2011-10-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 501, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/25211cf2-ded6-4e14-876b-f5ea80ce1a77. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).