republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/sb-79.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Human services."
description: "(1) Under existing law, the parents of a minor child are responsible for supporting the child. Existing law establishes the Department of Child Support Services, which administers all federal and state laws and regulations relating to child support enforcement obligations. Existing law requires each county to maintain a local child support agency that has responsibility for promptly and effectively enforcing child support obligations. Existing law also establishes within the state's child support program a quality assurance and performance improvement program. Existing law provides that the 10 counties with the best performance standards shall receive an additional 5% of the state's share of those counties' collections that are used to reduce or repay aid that is paid under the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program. Existing law requires these additional funds received by a county to be used for specified child support-related activities. Existing law suspends the payment of this additional 5% for the 2002–03 to 2014–15 fiscal years, inclusive."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 79"
citation: "California SB 79 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Human services."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2015-01-09"
last_action: "2015-06-24"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7771b107-b48e-486a-91f2-252b3db4a406"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB79"
source_hash: "161f939e976a134dba4d00977207b7a0c1f05908babcced77b4f5aef900ae140"
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 79 (20152016) — Human services.

(1) Under existing law, the parents of a minor child are responsible for supporting the child. Existing law establishes the Department of Child Support Services, which administers all federal and state laws and regulations relating to child support enforcement obligations. Existing law requires each county to maintain a local child support agency that has responsibility for promptly and effectively enforcing child support obligations. Existing law also establishes within the state's child support program a quality assurance and performance improvement program. Existing law provides that the 10 counties with the best performance standards shall receive an additional 5% of the state's share of those counties' collections that are used to reduce or repay aid that is paid under the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program. Existing law requires these additional funds received by a county to be used for specified child support-related activities. Existing law suspends the payment of this additional 5% for the 2002–03 to 2014–15 fiscal years, inclusive.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/09/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB79&version=20150SB7999INT)
2. **06/17/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB79&version=20150SB7998AMD)
3. **06/24/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB79&version=20150SB7996CHP)
4. **SB79** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB79)
5. **06/22/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB79&version=20150SB7997ENR)

## Votes

- W/O REF. TO FILE SB79 Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review By Leno Concurrence — **32–7** (pass) · upper
- SB 79 B. & F. R. Senate Third Reading By WEBER — **66–12** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SB79 Committee On B. & F.R. — **23–13** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-01-09** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2015-01-12** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 11.
- **2015-01-12** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-05** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-18** From committee: Ordered to second reading. `committee-passage`
- **2015-03-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-03-23** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 23. Noes 13. Page 379.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-03-23** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2015-03-23** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-17** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-06-19** Assembly Rule 96 suspended.
- **2015-06-19** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2015-06-19** Ordered to third reading.
- **2015-06-19** Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
- **2015-06-19** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 66. Noes 12. Page 2053.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-06-19** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2015-06-19** Unanimous consent granted to take up without reference to file.
- **2015-06-19** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 32. Noes 7. Page 1510.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-06-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2015-06-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-06-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 20, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7771b107-b48e-486a-91f2-252b3db4a406`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).