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Bill	Public social services: disaster assistance services.	(1) 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 prohibits a person from receiving CalWORKs benefits unless he or she is a resident of the state. Existing law requires CalWORKs eligibility to be terminated if the recipient has received aid payment at an address outside of the state for two consecutive months, the county has made inquiry of the recipient, and the recipient has not responded and has not clearly shown that he or she has not established residence elsewhere and has been prevented by illness or other good cause from returning to this state.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 607	California AB 607 (20172018)	bill appropriation	Public social services: disaster assistance services.	enacted	Gloria	8	27	8	2017-02-14	2017-10-05	openstates	ocd-bill/17491a13-f818-4a80-b609-705c1ef8d010	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB607	71c7cac0f524fda3c7fb9f84e020b2380bafbdc81dd377e6aa1ef5585e0a8693	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 607 (20172018) — Public social services: disaster assistance services.

(1) 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 prohibits a person from receiving CalWORKs benefits unless he or she is a resident of the state. Existing law requires CalWORKs eligibility to be terminated if the recipient has received aid payment at an address outside of the state for two consecutive months, the county has made inquiry of the recipient, and the recipient has not responded and has not clearly shown that he or she has not established residence elsewhere and has been prevented by illness or other good cause from returning to this state.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/03/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/01/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/08/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/05/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB607 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/15/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB607 Gloria By Wiener — 38–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 607 GLORIA Assembly Third Reading — 67–9 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 14–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 607 GLORIA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 71–7 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Gloria — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2017-02-27 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2017-03-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 21). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-03-28 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-03-29 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-04-26 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-05-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 3.) (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 67. Noes 9. Page 1911.) 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
• 2017-07-03 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
• 2017-07-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-08-21 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. 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 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 2. Page 2773.). 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.)
• 2017-09-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 7. Page 3370.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2017-10-05 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-05 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 501, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/17491a13-f818-4a80-b609-705c1ef8d010. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).