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Bill	CalWORKs: pregnancy or parenting.	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. Under the CalWORKs program, as a condition of eligibility for aid, recipients are required to participate in certain welfare-to-work activities, except for specified individuals, including, among others, individuals under 16 years of age and recipients who are pregnant.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 521	California SB 521 (20232024)	bill	CalWORKs pregnancy or parenting	enacted	Smallwood-Cuevas	6	31	9	2023-02-14	2023-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/c2e5b754-c78a-4441-9d82-d5d4b75eac98	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB521	628b3759bdd06a46331fc37ef35b66d4110c8f8ba8ef68288c4e82107ec1cd2a	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 521 (20232024) — CalWORKs: pregnancy or parenting.

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. Under the CalWORKs program, as a condition of eligibility for aid, recipients are required to participate in certain welfare-to-work activities, except for specified individuals, including, among others, individuals under 16 years of age and recipients who are pregnant.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/20/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/08/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/08/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB521 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/14/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 4–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent SB521 Smallwood-Cuevas et — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 521 Smallwood-Cuevas Senate Third Reading By Jackson — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB521 Smallwood-Cuevas et Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Smallwood-Cuevas — primary (person)
• Arambula — coauthor (person)
• Jackson — coauthor (person)
• McKinnor — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-14 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-15 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
• 2023-02-22 Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2023-02-28 Set for hearing March 20.
• 2023-03-15 March 20 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2023-03-16 Set for hearing April 17.
• 2023-03-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-04-14 Set for hearing April 25 in JUD. pending receipt.
• 2023-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 748.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-04-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 893.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-05-01 Set for hearing May 8.
• 2023-05-08 May 8 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2023-05-12 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1174.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-23 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2023-05-25 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1301.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-25 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-06-08 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2023-07-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-08-16 August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-08 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-08 Ordered to third reading.
• 2023-09-11 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3162.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-11 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-09-12 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2677.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2023-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 615, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c2e5b754-c78a-4441-9d82-d5d4b75eac98. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).