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Bill	CalWORKs: welfare-to-work: necessary supportive services.	Existing law provides for 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 and individuals. Existing law generally requires a recipient of CalWORKs benefits to participate in welfare-to-work activities as a condition of eligibility for aid. Existing law requires that necessary supportive services be available to participants in welfare-to-work activities, including child care, personal counseling, transportation costs, and ancillary expenses.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 480	California AB 480 (20172018)	bill	CalWORKs: welfare-to-work: necessary supportive services.	enacted	Gonzalez Fletcher	8	27	4	2017-02-13	2017-10-12	openstates	ocd-bill/d9c30f50-45b6-459a-8640-635aa32f5623	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB480	668927582b302707b7e924bbb32c25780db49dc2d261d43b27a60591b3a329f6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 480 (20172018) — CalWORKs: welfare-to-work: necessary supportive services.

Existing law provides for 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 and individuals. Existing law generally requires a recipient of CalWORKs benefits to participate in welfare-to-work activities as a condition of eligibility for aid. Existing law requires that necessary supportive services be available to participants in welfare-to-work activities, including child care, personal counseling, transportation costs, and ancillary expenses.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/30/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/02/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/20/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/01/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/12/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB480 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/15/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 480 Gonzalez Fletcher Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 72–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gonzalez Fletcher — primary (person)
• Anderson — coauthor (person)
• Caballero — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — principal coauthor (person)
• Gipson — principal coauthor (person)
• Glazer — coauthor (person)
• Leyva — coauthor (person)
• Skinner — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2017-03-30 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2017-03-30 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2017-05-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-05-02 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-03 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-05-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-05-26 Coauthors revised.
• 2017-05-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (May 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 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 71. Noes 1. Page 1907.) 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
• 2017-09-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2821.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-14 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2017-09-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 2. Page 3394.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2017-10-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 690, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d9c30f50-45b6-459a-8640-635aa32f5623. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).