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type: "Bill"
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title: "CalWORKs: welfare-to-work: necessary supportive services."
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description: "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 to participate in welfare-to-work activities as a condition of eligibility for aid. Existing law requires that necessary supportive services be available to participants in welfare-to-work activities, including child care, personal counseling, transportation costs, and ancillary expenses."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20172018"
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identifier: "AB 480"
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citation: "California AB 480 (20172018)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["CalWORKs: welfare-to-work: necessary supportive services."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Gonzalez Fletcher"]
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version_count: 8
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action_count: 27
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vote_count: 4
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first_action: "2017-02-13"
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last_action: "2017-10-12"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d9c30f50-45b6-459a-8640-635aa32f5623"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB480"
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source_hash: "668927582b302707b7e924bbb32c25780db49dc2d261d43b27a60591b3a329f6"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 480 (20172018) — CalWORKs: welfare-to-work: necessary supportive services.
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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 to participate in welfare-to-work activities as a condition of eligibility for aid. Existing law requires that necessary supportive services be available to participants in welfare-to-work activities, including child care, personal counseling, transportation costs, and ancillary expenses.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/13/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB480&version=20170AB48099INT)
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2. **03/30/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB480&version=20170AB48098AMD)
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3. **05/02/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB480&version=20170AB48097AMD)
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4. **06/20/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB480&version=20170AB48096AMD)
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5. **09/01/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB480&version=20170AB48095AMD)
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6. **10/12/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB480&version=20170AB48093CHP)
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7. **AB480** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB480)
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8. **09/15/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB480&version=20170AB48094ENR)
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## Votes
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- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 480 Gonzalez Fletcher Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **72–2** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Gonzalez Fletcher — primary (person)
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- Anderson — coauthor (person)
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- Caballero — coauthor (person)
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- Cristina Garcia — principal coauthor (person)
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- Gipson — principal coauthor (person)
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- Glazer — coauthor (person)
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- Leyva — coauthor (person)
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- Skinner — coauthor (person)
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- Wiener — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2017-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
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- **2017-03-30** Referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2017-03-30** 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-2, reading-1`
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- **2017-04-03** Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. `referral-committee`
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- **2017-05-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 25). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2017-05-02** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
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- **2017-05-03** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
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- **2017-05-17** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2017-05-26** Coauthors revised.
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- **2017-05-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (May 26). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2017-05-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2017-05-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 1. Page 1907.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2017-06-01** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2017-06-14** Referred to Com. on HUMAN S. `referral-committee`
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- **2017-06-20** 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-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
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- **2017-06-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2017-07-10** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2017-09-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2017-09-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
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- **2017-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2017-09-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2821.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2017-09-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
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- **2017-09-14** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 2. Page 3394.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
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- **2017-09-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
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- **2017-10-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2017-10-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 690, Statutes of 2017.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d9c30f50-45b6-459a-8640-635aa32f5623`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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