republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sb-462.md

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Bill	General assistance.	Existing law requires each county to provide aid to its indigent residents not supported by other means. These county programs are known as general assistance programs. Existing law requires the board of supervisors of every county to, among other things, investigate every application for relief from the funds of the county, to supervise every person receiving that relief, and to keep full and complete records of the investigation, supervision, relief, and rehabilitation. Existing law requires those records to be confidential and not be open to examination or inspection, except as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 462	California SB 462 (20232024)	bill	General assistance	enacted	Wahab	5	22	6	2023-02-13	2023-07-21	openstates	ocd-bill/1b9ea8b0-1062-40e9-916e-256115a4aec7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB462	06f8894a2b66661b2f2dfd31ff293376d4068b452543f08d524e416fe64f92ec	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 462 (20232024) — General assistance.

Existing law requires each county to provide aid to its indigent residents not supported by other means. These county programs are known as general assistance programs. Existing law requires the board of supervisors of every county to, among other things, investigate every application for relief from the funds of the county, to supervise every person receiving that relief, and to keep full and complete records of the investigation, supervision, relief, and rehabilitation. Existing law requires those records to be confidential and not be open to examination or inspection, except as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/21/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. SB462 (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/06/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar SB462 Wahab et al. — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 462 Wahab Consent Calendar Second Day — 69–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Wahab — primary (person)
• Blakespear — coauthor (person)
• Cortese — coauthor (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• Lackey — coauthor (person)
• Limón — coauthor (person)
• Ochoa Bogh — coauthor (person)
• Ortega — coauthor (person)
• Pellerin — coauthor (person)
• Roth — coauthor (person)
• Ting — coauthor (person)
• Umberg — coauthor (person)
• Wallis — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-13 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-14 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
• 2023-02-22 Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-02-28 Set for hearing March 20.
• 2023-03-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 426.) (March 20). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-03-23 Set for hearing April 11.
• 2023-03-23 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-12 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 686.) (April 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-04-13 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-20 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 814.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-04-20 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-05-04 Referred to Coms. on HUM. S. and P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2023-06-07 Coauthors revised.
• 2023-06-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 6). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-06-28 Coauthors revised.
• 2023-06-28 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 27). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-06-29 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-07-03 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 2541.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-07-03 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
• 2023-07-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
• 2023-07-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-07-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 110, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1b9ea8b0-1062-40e9-916e-256115a4aec7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).