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Bill	CalWORKs: welfare-to-work: self-employment.	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 for a specified number of hours per week as a condition of eligibility. Existing law identifies the welfare-to-work activities in which a recipient may participate, including, among others, self-employment.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 461	California AB 461 (20212022)	bill	CalWORKs: welfare-to-work: self-employment.	enacted	Villapudua	6	26	8	2021-02-08	2021-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/56e48050-f13b-4727-bf94-3b63c6ce0b2d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB461	5a3d2b461bf461fa5ec5473943ea047d37a74f3be779a45f86fa7a3c313352c2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 461 (20212022) — CalWORKs: welfare-to-work: self-employment.

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 for a specified number of hours per week as a condition of eligibility. Existing law identifies the welfare-to-work activities in which a recipient may participate, including, among others, self-employment.

Version chain

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

1. 02/08/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/12/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/14/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/06/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB461 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/09/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 461 Villapudua Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 461 Villapudua Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent AB461 — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Villapudua — primary (person)
• Jones — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-08 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-09 From printer. May be heard in committee March 11.
• 2021-02-18 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2021-04-07 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2021-04-12 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
• 2021-04-13 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2021-04-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-05-05 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 Coauthors revised.
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1726.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-09 Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2021-06-14 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-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-07-05 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-31 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2021-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2389.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2021-09-07 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2843.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2021-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 582, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/56e48050-f13b-4727-bf94-3b63c6ce0b2d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).