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Bill	CalWORKs: housing assistance.	Existing law establishes the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program under which, through a combination of federal, state, and county funds, each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families. As part of the CalWORKs program, a homeless family that has used all available liquid resources in excess of $100 is eligible for homeless assistance benefits to pay the costs of temporary shelter if the family is eligible for aid under the CalWORKs program.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 236	California AB 236 (20172018)	bill	CalWORKs: housing assistance.	enacted	Maienschein	8	28	5	2017-01-30	2017-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/3ee4bac8-5281-4839-ad73-2901c1a8c778	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB236	1076eb6a05fec74dd20240156f0effc1823a1c1d5fe7e39a8ea7f93fd4680e91	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 236 (20172018) — CalWORKs: housing assistance.

Existing law establishes the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program under which, through a combination of federal, state, and county funds, each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families. As part of the CalWORKs program, a homeless family that has used all available liquid resources in excess of $100 is eligible for homeless assistance benefits to pay the costs of temporary shelter if the family is eligible for aid under the CalWORKs program.

Version chain

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

1. 01/30/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/26/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/20/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/01/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/08/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/07/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB236 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/15/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 236 Maienschein Special Consent Calendar 1st Day — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent Calendar # AB236 — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 236 MAIENSCHEIN Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Maienschein — primary (person)
• Acosta — coauthor (person)
• Chávez — coauthor (person)
• Gloria — coauthor (person)
• Grayson — coauthor (person)
• Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
• Mathis — coauthor (person)
• McCarty — coauthor (person)
• Santiago — author (person)
• Steinorth — coauthor (person)
• Vidak — coauthor (person)
• Voepel — coauthor (person)
• Waldron — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-30 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-01-31 From printer. May be heard in committee March 2.
• 2017-02-06 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2017-03-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-03-14 Coauthors revised.
• 2017-04-26 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-05-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-05-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1924.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-14 Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2017-06-20 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-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-10 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-09-05 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 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2017-09-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2910.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2017-09-14 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2017-09-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3421.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2017-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 545, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3ee4bac8-5281-4839-ad73-2901c1a8c778. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).