republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-818.md

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Bill	CalWORKs: welfare to work.	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 establishes a 48-month lifetime limit of CalWORKs benefits for eligible adults, as specified. Existing law requires a recipient of CalWORKs to participate in certain welfare-to-work activities as a condition of eligibility for 24 cumulative months, as specified, and then to meet other federal requirements afterwards, as specified. Existing law authorizes each county to provide an extension of the 24 months for recipients who are unlikely to meet the federal requirements, and authorizes a recipient to request the extension and present evidence to the county that he or she meets a specified circumstance, including that the recipient has achieved satisfactory progress in an educational or treatment program that has a known graduation, transfer, or completion date that would meaningfully increase the likelihood of his or her employment.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 818	California AB 818 (20172018)	bill	CalWORKs: welfare to work.	enacted	Burke	4	17	5	2017-02-15	2017-07-31	openstates	ocd-bill/83a36724-9a59-42a6-a5c7-a9f4548f54ad	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB818	0d6297c0476a5d8ddbd1dc851891b8faab329ce9953d84f7d7daa4837e0914f2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 818 (20172018) — CalWORKs: welfare to work.

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 establishes a 48-month lifetime limit of CalWORKs benefits for eligible adults, as specified. Existing law requires a recipient of CalWORKs to participate in certain welfare-to-work activities as a condition of eligibility for 24 cumulative months, as specified, and then to meet other federal requirements afterwards, as specified. Existing law authorizes each county to provide an extension of the 24 months for recipients who are unlikely to meet the federal requirements, and authorizes a recipient to request the extension and present evidence to the county that he or she meets a specified circumstance, including that the recipient has achieved satisfactory progress in an educational or treatment program that has a known graduation, transfer, or completion date that would meaningfully increase the likelihood of his or her employment.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 07/31/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
3. AB818 (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/19/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB818 Burke By Wiener — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 818 BURKE Consent Calendar Second Day — 74–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Burke — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2017-03-02 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2017-03-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-05 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 5). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-04-06 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-04-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 1144.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-04-20 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-05-10 Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. 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
• 2017-06-26 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2017-06-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-07-17 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2075.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-07-17 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2017-07-21 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2017-07-31 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-07-31 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 141, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/83a36724-9a59-42a6-a5c7-a9f4548f54ad. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).