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Bill	CalWORKs: family violence option and gender-based violence information.	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 imposes various requirements on CalWORKs recipients, including the requirement to participate in specified welfare-to-work activities, unless a good cause exception applies. Existing law requires a county to waive a program requirement for a recipient who has been identified as a past or present victim of domestic abuse when it has been determined that good cause under the welfare-to-work requirement exists.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 969	California AB 969 (20252026)	bill	CalWORKs familyviolenceoptionandgender-basedviolenceinformation	enacted	Celeste Rodriguez	9	29	8	2025-02-20	2025-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/94115c88-5edd-42bf-aa32-b3f38f9b16bb	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB969	a8dc21cd413618edf6363a15985199b3181597165efb4fb09e8dea921d25e7c1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 969 (20252026) — CalWORKs: family violence option and gender-based violence information.

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 imposes various requirements on CalWORKs recipients, including the requirement to participate in specified welfare-to-work activities, unless a good cause exception applies. Existing law requires a county to waive a program requirement for a recipient who has been identified as a past or present victim of domestic abuse when it has been determined that good cause under the welfare-to-work requirement exists.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/21/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/23/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/26/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/29/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/05/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/06/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB969 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/16/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent AB969 Celeste Rodriguez By Durazo — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 969 Celeste Rodriguez Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 969 Celeste Rodriguez Assembly Third Reading — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Celeste Rodriguez — primary (person)
• Durazo — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2025-03-10 Referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2025-04-10 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 8). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-04-21 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2025-05-14 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-05-23 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-05-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1911.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-11 Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. referral-committee
• 2025-06-26 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
• 2025-07-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-08-18 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-08-29 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-05 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-09 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2025-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2933.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3383.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 386, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/94115c88-5edd-42bf-aa32-b3f38f9b16bb. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).