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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "CalWORKs: homeless assistance."
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description: "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."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20192020"
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identifier: "AB 960"
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citation: "California AB 960 (20192020)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["CalWORKs: homeless assistance."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Maienschein"]
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version_count: 8
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action_count: 26
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vote_count: 8
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first_action: "2019-02-21"
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last_action: "2019-10-02"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1038d19e-4a17-4469-aa1f-de7942a53f92"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB960"
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source_hash: "8c56a5ea1cb4af11343389561501ef52d36e6364690d1876554785d2170de2e3"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 960 (20192020) — CalWORKs: homeless assistance.
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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.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/21/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB960&version=20190AB96099INT)
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2. **03/20/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB960&version=20190AB96098AMD)
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3. **04/02/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB960&version=20190AB96097AMD)
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4. **05/16/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB960&version=20190AB96096AMD)
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5. **08/30/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB960&version=20190AB96095AMD)
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6. **10/02/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB960&version=20190AB96093CHP)
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7. **AB960** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB960)
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8. **09/11/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB960&version=20190AB96094ENR)
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## Votes
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- AB 960 Maienschein Assembly Third Reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower
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- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading AB960 Maienschein et al. By Portantino — **40–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 960 Maienschein Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Maienschein — primary (person)
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- Chang — coauthor (person)
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- Dodd — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2019-02-21** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2019-02-22** From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
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- **2019-03-04** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2019-03-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2019-03-21** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2019-04-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 26). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2019-04-02** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2019-04-03** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
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- **2019-04-24** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2019-05-16** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 16). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2019-05-16** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2019-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2019-05-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2039.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2019-05-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2019-06-06** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
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- **2019-07-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2019-08-12** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2019-08-30** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2019-08-30** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2019-09-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2019-09-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2494.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2019-09-05** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 7 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
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- **2019-09-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3105.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2019-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
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- **2019-10-02** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2019-10-02** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 444, Statutes of 2019.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1038d19e-4a17-4469-aa1f-de7942a53f92`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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