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 welfare-to-work activities as a condition of eligibility. Existing law limits the time period in which a participant may engage in certain state-authorized work activities, in satisfaction of welfare-to-work requirements, to 24 cumulative months during a participant's lifetime, and requires the participant to engage in federally defined work activities after that period expires. Existing law requires that necessary supportive services be available to every participant in order to participate in the program activity to which he or she is assigned. Under existing law, when an individual fails or refuses to comply with specified components of the CalWORKs program without good cause, and conciliation efforts have failed, the participant is subject to prescribed financial sanctions.
California SB 1446 (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 requires a recipient of CalWORKs to participate in welfare-to-work activities as a condition of eligibility. Existing law limits the time period in which a participant may engage in certain state-authorized work activities, in satisfaction of welfare-to-work requirements, to 24 cumulative months during a participant's lifetime, and requires the participant to engage in federally defined work activities after that period expires. Existing law requires that necessary supportive services be available to every participant in order to participate in the program activity to which he or she is assigned. Under existing law, when an individual fails or refuses to comply with specified components of the CalWORKs program without good cause, and conciliation efforts have failed, the participant is subject to prescribed financial sanctions.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
SB 1446 Glazer Senate Third Reading By BAKER — 80–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 6–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Glazer — primary (person)
Baker — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2018-02-16 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2018-02-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
2018-03-08 Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee
2018-03-20 Set for hearing April 10.
2018-04-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 4624.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2018-04-13 Set for hearing April 23.
2018-04-23 April 23 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2018-05-18 Set for hearing May 25.
2018-05-25 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4311.) (May 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
2018-05-25 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
2018-05-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2018-05-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4418.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
2018-05-31 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2018-06-11 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
2018-06-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2018-08-08 August 8 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
2018-08-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2018-08-16 Coauthors revised.
2018-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2018-08-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6967.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
2018-08-30 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
2018-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
2018-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2018-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 740, Statutes of 2018.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/38463fc8-03bb-4adc-82a3-6e49c9ec7bfe. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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