Legislation
AB 325 (Beall)
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A bill to provide for an Earned Income Tax Credit Outreach Program
BILL STATUS: Held in Assembly Appropriations.
CCWRO Position- SUPPORT
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AB 510 (Evans)
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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
LinkAB 643 (Skinner)
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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
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LinkAB 631 (Tran)
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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
AB 682 (Lowenthal)
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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
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