This bill would delete the months from the 60 month time clock for CalWORKs participants who are not able to participate in a WtW program due to good cause found by the county.

BILL STATUS: Passed the Assembly. Bill contents included in Chapter 4, statutes of 2009.

CCWRO Position- SUPPORT

This bill would require all applicants to go through a home visit before the application is approved. It would cost over $50 million a year and would create jobs for more than 1,000 welfare fraud investigators.. 

BILL STATUS: Assembly  Human Services Committee. Defeated in Committee.

CCWRO Position- OPPOSE

This bill would provide that food stamp recipients who move from one county to another would receive continued benefits similar to the way CalWORKs recipients are treated when they move from one county to another.

BILL STATUS:  Passed the Senate Human Services Committee on June 23, 2009 without opposition.

NEXT STEP - Held Senate Appropriations Committee.

CCWRO Position- SUPPORT

CCWRO Sponsored Bill

This bill would require the department of social services in consultation with IHSS advocates and counties to report on the extent of the fraud in the current California IHSS system.

BILL STATUS: Passed the Senate Human Services Committee on June 23, 2009.

NEXT STEP - Passed Senate Appropriations Committee

CCWRO Position- SUPPORT

This bill would give foster care children food stamps for 6 months after they leave foster care without applying for food stamps. 

BILL STATUS:  Passed the Senate Human Services Committee on June 23, 2009.

NEXT STEP - Senate Appropriations Committee.

This bill would repeal the provisions authorizing the Legislature to take money from the Employment Training Panel fund to fund the local assistance portion of welfare-to-work activities under the CalWORKs program.

This bill would maintain Medi-Cal coverage when the beneficiary transmits income information for CalWORKs and Food Stamps.

BILL STATUS: Two-Year bill in Senate Appropriations.

CCWRO Position- SUPPORT

This bill would set up a semi-annual reporting system for Food Stamps and CalWORKs in lieu of the current quarterly reporting system.

BILL STATUS: Assembly Human Services - Passed the Committee

NEXT STEP - 5-28-09 - Assembly Appropriation Committee held the bill in committee.

CCWRO Position- SUPPORT

This bill would repeal any asset tests for recipients and impose a $7,000 asset test upon applicants

BILL STATUS:  Passed the Senate Human Services Committee on June 23, 2009.

NEXT STEP - Held in Senate Appropriations Committee.

CCWRO Position- SUPPORT

This bill would require California to opt out of the prohibition of giving Food Stamp to persons with a drug felony conviction.

BILL STATUS: Held in Senate Appropriations.

CCWRO Position- SUPPORT

A bill to impose drug tests on adults in CalWORKs.

BILL STATUS: Failed in Senate Human Services Committee.

CCWRO Position- OPPOSE

The bill would require the fingerprint imaging system to apply to use under the Food Stamp Program only to the extent the applicants for, or recipients of, food stamps also apply for or receive designated nonhealth benefits associated with county aid and relief to indigents.

BILL STATUS: Held in Senate Appropriation Committee.

AB 2508 - Bonilla

CCWRO POSITION- SUPPORT

This bill would preclude state agencies or departments from authorizing call-center contracts for public assistance or health benefit programs if they hire employees outside California to perform the work.

SPONSORED BY: Western Center on Law & Poverty and California Labor Federation

BILL STATUS: 9-30-12- Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 824, Statutes of 2012.

AB 2469 - Shannon Grove (R)

CCWRO POSITION- OPPOSE

This bill would impose a drug testing requirement for CalWORKs recipients.

BILL STATUS: Assembly Human Services Committee - Not taken up by author. The bill is deed.

AB 2325 - Roger Hernandez (D)

CCWRO POSITION- SUPPORT

This bill would exempt the first car for CalWORKs applicants and recipients.

BILL STATUS: Died in Senate Appropriations Committee

AB 2035- Bradford (D)

CCWRO POSITION- SUPPORT

This bill would provide for replacement of EBT benefits lost through third party skimming.

SPONSORED BY: Western Center on Law & Poverty

BILL STATUS: 9-14-12 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 319, Statutesof 2012.

AB 1970 - Nancy Skinner (D)

CCWRO POSITION- SUPPORT

This bill would modernize the CalWORKs, Fiid Stamps and medi-Cal programs to make them more effective and efficient.

SPONSORED BY: Western Center on Law & Poverty, SEIU, CWDA and CCWRO

BILL STATUS:  Died in Senate Appropriations Committee.

AB 1841 - Silva (R)

CCWRO POSITION- OPPOSE

This bill would repeal the freedom of an IHHS recipient to request a waiver from criminal exclusion for his or her provider.

BILL STATUS: Assembly Human Services Committee. Died in Committee.

AB 1691 -Bonnie Lowenthal (D)

CCWRO POSITION- SUPPORT

This bill would expand time that refugees can participate in English as Second Language (ESL) classes.

BILL STATUS: Passed the Assembly. Placed on Senate Appropriations Committee suspense file.
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AB 1640 - Mitchell (D)

CCWRO POSITION- SUPPORT

This bill would allow pregnant women with no other children under the age of 19 not eliigble for CalLearn to received cash aid from the date of verification of the pregnancy.

BILL STATUS: Waiting for action on the Senate Floor.

AB 1560 Fuentes (D)

CCWRO POSITION- SUPPORT

This bill would make would make Medi-Cal recipients with gross income below 200% FPL income-eligible for CalFresh.

BILL STATUS:  Died in Senate Appropriations Committee.

AB 828 - Swanson (D)

CCWRO POSITION - SUPPORT

This bill would repeal the current prohibition of issuing food stamps to certaing indigent people convicted of certain drug related crimes.

SPONSORED BY:  Sponsored by Western Center on Law & Poverty Co-Coalition of California Welfare Rights Organizations.

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BILL STATUS: In Senate Appropriations Committee Suspense file.

NEXT STOP: Died in Senate Appropriations Committee.

SB 1391 - Carol Lui (D)

CCWRO POSITION - SUPPORT

This bill would require counties to waive the collection of food stamp overissuances of $125 and a greater amount pursuant to DSS regulations.

SPONSORED BY: Western Center on Law & Poverty

BILL STATUS: 9-23-12 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 491, Statutes of 2012.

SB 1074- Dutton (R)

CCWRO POSITION - OPPOSE

This bill would restore the fingerprinting requirement for food stamp recipients.

BILL STATUS: Senate Human Services Committee. Died in Committee.

SB 1060 Hancock- (D)

CCWRO POSITION - SUPPORT

This bill would remove the lifetime ban of CalWORKs recipients convicted of a drug felony as long as they have completed a drug treatment program.

SPONSORED BY: Western Center on Law & Poverty and CWDA

BILL STATUS:  Senate Appropriations Committee Suspense File. Bill failed passage.

SB 930 - Kevin de Leon (D)

CCWRO POSITION - SUPPORT

This bill would allow a public assistance application to be used as an application for other means-tested programs.

SPONSORED BY: Western Center on Law & Poverty

BILL STATUS:  Waiting for action on the Assembly Floor.

SB  320 - Wright (D)

CCWRO POSITION - SUPPORT

This bill would make certain changes in the state heairng process to make the hearing process more efficient.

SPONSORED BY: Coalition of California Welfare Rights Organizations

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BILL STATUS:  Died in Assembly Appropriations Committee.

AB 2504 - Strickland (R) - Increasing Welfare Fines and Doling it out to Counties and District Attorneys

CCWRO POSITION- OPPOSE

BILL STATUS - Defeated in Human Services Committee

This would would increase welfare fines and rather than using the money for the program it would dole the money out to counties welfare fraud investigators and District Attorneys.

AB 2018 - Skinner (D) - Food Stamp Mobility

CCWRO POSITION - SUPPORT

CCWRO is co-sponsoring this bill with CWDA and WCL&P

This bill would provide that food stamp recipients would not have to reapply for food stamp benefits when they move from one county to another county.

BILL STATUS: Vetoed by the Governor because similar language is already in the 2010-2011 Budget Implementation Trailer Bill

AB 1914 - David (D) Food Stamp Income Verification Simplification

CCWRO - SUPPORT

Sponsored by CCWRO and WCL&P

This bill provides that Unemployment Insurance Benefits (UIB) benefits, for applicants applying to or receiving benefits from the Food Stamp Program (FSP), can be counted as income for purposes of FSP eligibility determination and calculation of the benefit level only if the county welfare department obtains a report from the Employment Development Department (EDD) specifying a start date and amount of the UIB; and further requires a copy of the report be provided to the FSP applicant or recipient if the county welfare department takes any action based on the report.

BILL STATUS: Vetoed by the Governor. The Veto message states that this can be done administratively.

AB 1866 - Strickland (R) - 100% Home Visit Program for all CalWORKs Applicants

CCWRO POSITION- OPPOSE

BILL STATUS: Defeated in Assembly Human Services Committee

This would would require home visits for every applicant of CalWORKs. It would cost over $50 million and it would create 1,000 new jobs for welfare fraud investigators. This bill is sponsored by welfare fraud investigators.

AB 1804 - Hagman (R) Employment Training Panel

CCWRO POSITION - SUPPORT

BILL STATUS - Passed Assembly Insurance Committee as amended.

NEXT STEP-

This bill stopped moving.

SB 1359 - Price (D) Study of Food Stamp Options

CCWRO Position - SUPPORT & Sponsored by CCWRO

This bill would require the California Research Bureau to compile all existing information and recommendations from interested stakeholders relating to increasing participation in the Federal human services programs, including the Food Stamp program. It would require the office of the Legislative Analyst to submit recommendations for five years no later than November 1, 2011 analyzing and evaluating participation in federal human services programs.

STATUS- Passed the Senate Human Services Committee and it never moved.

SB 1322. Senator Lui (D)

CCWRO POSITION - Support

This bill would require a county that implements the federal time limits for ABAWDS to receive food stamp to offer self-initiated workfare activities to maintain food stamp eligibility and to allow exempt exempt household to voluntarily participate in the Food Stamp Employment and Training program.

STATUS - Vetoed by the Governor

SB 12 (Senator Corbett) (D)

CCWRO POSITION - SUPPORT

This bill would appropriate $250 million to restore the Stage Three Child Care Program

BILL STATUS: Referred to Rules committee.

This issue was resolved through the enactment of teh 2011-2012 budget. The bill was amended that had nothing to do with child care.

SB 43- Liu

CCWRO POSITION: SUPPORT

Existing federal law provides for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known in California as CalFresh (formerly the Food Stamp Program), under which nutrition assistance benefits formerly referred to as food stamps, allocated to the state by the federal government, are distributed to eligible individuals by each county. Existing federal law requires all SNAP recipients, unless otherwise exempt, between 15 to 60 years of age, inclusive, who are physically and mentally fit, to register for employment and participate in the Food Stamp Employment and Training (FSET) program.

This bill would require a county that elects to participate in the FSET program, which the bill would designate as the CalFresh Employment and Training program (CalFresh E&T), to screen CalFresh work registrants to determine whether they will participate in, or be deferred from, the CalFresh E&T program, and would describe the criteria for deferral. The bill would authorize a CalFresh work registrant who is deferred from mandatory participation in the CalFresh E&T program to request to enroll in the program as a voluntary participant.

This bill would require a county that elects to participate in the CalFresh E&T program to demonstrate in its CalFresh E&T plan how it is effectively using CalFresh E&T funds, as specified. The bill would further require that none of its provisions be construed to require a county to offer a particular component as part of its CalFresh E&T plan. The bill would provide that a CalFresh E&T participant is not an employee for the purposes of workers' compensation and would provide that it would not require a county to provide workers' compensation coverage for a CalFresh E&T participant. This bill would require the department to adopt implementing regulations by October 1, 2013. This bill is effective January 1, 2012.

SPONSORED BY:  Sponsored by Western Center on Law & Poverty & Coalition of California Welfare Rights Organizations.

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BILL STATUS: 10/06/2011 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 507, Statutes.

SB 417- Dutton (R)

CCWRO POSITION - OPPOSE

This bill would prohibit using an EBT card to purchase alcohol and tobacco.

SPONSORED BY: Author

BILL STATUS: Senate Human Services Committee on April 12, 2011- FAILED PASSAGE

SB 471- Rubio (R)

CCWRO POSITION - OPPOSE

This bill would prohibit using an EBT card to purchase soda can drinks.

SPONSORED BY: Author

BILL STATUS: Senate Human Services Committee on April 26, 2011

OUTCOME: Bill not heard. This is now a two-year bill.

SB 480- Vargas (D)

CCWRO POSITION - SUPPORT

This bill would prohibit using the income and resources in cases of a victim of domestic violence applying for aid that was available prior to application for public benefits and it not currently actually available.

SPONSORED BY:  Sponsored by Western Center on Law & Poverty Co-Coalition of California Welfare Rights Organizations.

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BILL STATUS: Passed the Senate Human Services Committee on April 26, 2011

NEXT STOP: Senate Appropriations Committee. Held in Suspense File. The Bill is Dead.

SB 930 - Evans (D)

CCWRO POSITION - SUPPORT

This bill would repeal finger-imaging requirements in the IHSS program and the prohibition of having a post office box.

BILL STATUS: 10/09/2011- Chaptered by Secretary of State on October 9, 2011, Charpter 649, statutes of 2011.