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Bill	CalWORKs and CalFresh: reporting.	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 959	California AB 959 (20112012)	bill	CalWORKs and CalFresh: reporting.	enacted	Jones	10	26	8	2011-02-18	2011-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/ffa12da3-c35a-43fe-b576-9c7ac1dadfb3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB959	c7ed7dc51d8e6551db4e681cb81f190d06c087c624ff0f8b239d0c1a448c3c2d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 959 (20112012) — CalWORKs and CalFresh: reporting.

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. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/12/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/27/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/05/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/15/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/30/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/31/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/06/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB959 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/20/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB959 Jones By Liu — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 959 JONES Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 959 JONES Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 17–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jones — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2011-03-10 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 6. Noes 0.) (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 as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-27 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1747.) 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
• 2011-07-01 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-05 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-08-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-08-29 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (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 and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-09-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2350.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-07 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2011-09-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3081.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:30 p.m.
• 2011-10-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 506, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ffa12da3-c35a-43fe-b576-9c7ac1dadfb3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).