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 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.

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: Passed Assembly Human Services Committee

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 - Assembly Insurance Committee

NEXT STEP-

This bill would stop the CalWORKs program from raiding the ETP fund. The ETP is designed to train unemployed workers. CalWORKs recipient already have over $1.5 billion for employment program that hand out more sanctions for allegedly failure to participate while not paying for transportation for over 50% of the unduplicated participants. For every one person that finds a job through this CalWORKs WtW program, two persons are sanctioned.

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

NEXT STEP - Senate Appropriations Committee

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 - Passed Senate Human Services Committee

NEXT STEP - Senate Appropriations Committee