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Bill CalWORKs: welfare-to-work: 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. Existing law requires a recipient of CalWORKs to participate in certain welfare-to-work activities as a condition of eligibility and requires the county to assign a CalWORKs recipient who lacks a high school diploma or its equivalent to participate in adult basic education, if the recipient has completed job search activities but did not find employment and the education is needed to become employed. Existing law also requires, in order for a recipient to engage in adult basic education in satisfaction of welfare-to-work requirements, the county to perform an assessment and develop a welfare-to-work plan that includes participation in the educational activity. us/states/ca California Legislature 20172018 AB 1604 California AB 1604 (20172018)
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California AB 1604 (20172018) — CalWORKs: welfare-to-work: 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. Existing law requires a recipient of CalWORKs to participate in certain welfare-to-work activities as a condition of eligibility and requires the county to assign a CalWORKs recipient who lacks a high school diploma or its equivalent to participate in adult basic education, if the recipient has completed job search activities but did not find employment and the education is needed to become employed. Existing law also requires, in order for a recipient to engage in adult basic education in satisfaction of welfare-to-work requirements, the county to perform an assessment and develop a welfare-to-work plan that includes participation in the educational activity.

Version chain

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

  1. 02/17/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
  2. 05/16/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
  3. 06/28/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
  4. 09/08/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
  5. 09/26/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
  6. AB1604 (committee substitute) — source
  7. 09/15/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 40 (pass) · upper
  • 3rd Reading AB1604 Nazarian By Nguyen — 390 (pass) · upper
  • AB 1604 NAZARIAN Consent Calendar Second Day — 770 (pass) · lower
  • Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — 70 (pass) · lower
  • AB 1604 Nazarian Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 750 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • Nazarian — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2017-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
  • 2017-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
  • 2017-03-16 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
  • 2017-05-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 9). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
  • 2017-05-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
  • 2017-05-17 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
  • 2017-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1663.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
  • 2017-05-22 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
  • 2017-06-01 Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and APPR. referral-committee
  • 2017-06-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
  • 2017-06-19 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
  • 2017-06-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
  • 2017-07-10 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
  • 2017-07-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
  • 2017-09-08 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
  • 2017-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
  • 2017-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2781.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
  • 2017-09-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
  • 2017-09-13 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 25. Page 3255.)
  • 2017-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3337.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
  • 2017-09-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
  • 2017-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
  • 2017-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 303, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d2c769b9-ffde-45b0-b6ac-9885cde03ee8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).