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Bill	CalWORKs and CalFresh: work requirements.	(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 generally requires a recipient of CalWORKs benefits who is 16 years of age or older to participate in welfare-to-work activities as a condition of eligibility for aid. Existing law exempts certain persons from the welfare-to-work activities, including a child attending an elementary, secondary, vocational, or technical school on a full-time basis. Existing law, however, prohibits a person who is 16 or 17 years of age, or a custodial parent who is under 20 years of age, who loses this exemption from requalifying for the exemption by attending school as a required activity.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2300	California AB 2300 (20212022)	bill	CalWORKs and CalFresh: work requirements.	enacted	Kalra	9	32	8	2022-02-16	2022-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/62ea1609-eba3-43d8-b5bc-a43658e63cff	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2300	0ed7c4e3ff59ae9ead1555373ce01e453525075ad5dd49807e5b01f02018560e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2300 (20212022) — CalWORKs and CalFresh: work requirements.

(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 generally requires a recipient of CalWORKs benefits who is 16 years of age or older to participate in welfare-to-work activities as a condition of eligibility for aid. Existing law exempts certain persons from the welfare-to-work activities, including a child attending an elementary, secondary, vocational, or technical school on a full-time basis. Existing law, however, prohibits a person who is 16 or 17 years of age, or a custodial parent who is under 20 years of age, who loses this exemption from requalifying for the exemption by attending school as a required activity.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/28/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/19/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/11/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/18/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/27/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2300 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/29/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB2300 Kalra By Skinner — 31–6 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 2300 Kalra Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 60–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 13–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 2300 Kalra Assembly Third Reading — 59–6 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Kalra — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2022-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2022-03-03 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2022-03-29 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-1, reading-2
• 2022-03-30 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2022-04-05 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2022-04-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 26). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-04-28 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-02 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2022-05-18 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-05-19 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 4736.)
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 1.) (May 19). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-05-19 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 59. Noes 6. Page 4980.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-06-08 Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2022-06-13 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2022-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-08-02 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 11). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-08-11 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-18 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 5140.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-25 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2022-08-25 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
• 2022-08-25 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 588, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/62ea1609-eba3-43d8-b5bc-a43658e63cff. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).