“CCWRO California Public Benefits Legislative Bill & Budget Action Tracker #2019-14 September 2, 2019 [image: Description: Description: CCWRO Logo]Next Up bills that came off suspense will be heard on assembly & Senate Floors next two (2) weeks 1 California Public Benefits Legislative Bill & Budget Action Tracker #2019-14[image: Submit Position Letter] California Department of Social Services Local Assistance 2019-20 Appropriation Historical CalWORKs and TANF Funding Chart FY 2019-20 Appropriation Total TANF Grant\/Required MOE $6,572,555,000 Percentage of the Total Available TANF Money Total Available Funding $7,488,586,000 Total Funding Needed $7,417,718,000 Total TANF Reserve $70,868,000 CalWORKs Grants 3,030,848,000 40% Administration 645,736,000 Services 1,216,172,000 Child Care 330,658,000 Mental Health\/Sub. Abuse Services 126,606,000 County Single Allocation (CSA)- County TANF Block Grant Allocation 2,319,172,000 31% TANF Transfer to Student Aid Commission 1,060,090,000 Kin-GAP Program 95,310,000 Additional TANF\/MOE Expenditures in CDSS 464,938,000 Other MOE Eligible Expenditures 776,985,000 State Support Costs 27,588,000 0.4% Non-CalWORKs Transfers 192,119,000 CalWORKs Contribution to the General Fund $2,670,078,000 SB 80 Assembly Human Services Committee Daphne Hunt, Chief Consultant
[email protected] Kelsy Castillo, Senior Consultant
[email protected] Toni Zupan, Committee Secretary
[email protected] Phone (916) 319-2089 Fax (916) 319-2189 1020 N St., Suite 124, Sacramento, CA 95814 Cyndi Hillery, Republican Committee Consultant
[email protected] Phone (916) 319-3900 Fax (916) 319-3902 1020 N St., Suite 400, Sacramento, CA 95814 2019 Assembly Human Services Committee Hearing Dates ASSEMBLY BILLS February 26, 2019; March 12, 2019; March 26, 2019 April 9, 2019, April 23, 2019, April 30, 2019 (non-fiscal bills) SENATE BILLS – June 12, 2019 June 26, 2019 (Senate Bills) NOTE: All hearings at 1:30 pm in room #437 All Support\/Oppose letters must be submitted here. Assembly Committee Member Human Services Staff Eloise Reyes- Chair (D) Phone: 916-319-2047 Room # 2175 Amer Rashid Email:
[email protected] Devon Mathis Vice Chair (R) Phone: 916-319-2026 Room # 2111 Justin Boman Email:
[email protected] Joaquin Arambula (D) Phone: 916-319-2031 Room # 5155 Marla Cowan Email:
[email protected] Steven Choi – (R) Phone: 916-319-2068 Room # 2016 Nicolas Gauthier Email:
[email protected] Laura Friedman (D) Phone: 916-319-2043 Room # 2137 Allison Ruff-Schurman Email:
[email protected] Mike Gibson (D) Phone: 916-319-2064 Room # 3173 Estella Pacheco Email:
[email protected] Brian Maienschein (D) Phone: 916-319-2077 Room # 2170 Michael Chen Email:
[email protected] Mark Stone (D) Phone: 916-319-2029 Room # 3146 Keely O’Brien Email:
[email protected] 2019 ASSEMBLY BILLS Bill Number Author Sponsor Bill Description Next Steps AB 24 Burke (D) Room:5150 Tel. 916-319-2062 Staff: Harrison Bowlby Email:
[email protected] GRACE WCLP SUPPORT CalWORKs – This bill would declare the Legislature’s intent to enact legislation that would establish a Targeted Child Tax Credit as recommended by the task force. For LSC Letter Click Here Next Step Two-Year Bill AB 229 Nazarian (D) Room # – 5150 Tel. 916- 319-2062 Staff: Mike Stajura Email:
[email protected] CWDA SUPPORT IHSS This bill would clarify that the department is required to provide translations of written content, as defined, in languages spoken by a substantial number of providers of in-home supportive services. For LSC Letter Click Here Next Step Two-Year Bill AB 283 Chu (D) Room # – 5150 Tel. 916- 319-2062 Staff: Zachary Leary Email:
[email protected] CWDA SUPPORT CalWORKs This bill would give the State Department of Social Services the option to impose a $50 penalty for CalWORKs parents who fail to verify that children under 6 years of age have been vaccinated. For LSC Letter Click Here Next Step Senate Floor AB 341 – Maienschein (D) Room # – 21 Tel. 916- 319-2042 Staff: Shanna Ezzell
[email protected] CCWRO SUPPORT CalFresh This bill would provide that persons applying for medical assistance indicating that they also would like to apply for CalFresh would have their application transmitted to the county of residence prepopulated with information from the medical assistance application. For LSC Letter Click Here Next Step Two-Year Bill AB 426 – Maienschein (D) Room # – 2170 Tel. 916- 319-2042 Staff: Michael Chen
[email protected] CCWRO SUPPORT IHSS This bill would prohibit medical professionals authorized to complete the SOC 873 to charge for the completion of said form For LSC Letter Click Here Next Step Senate Floor AB 494 – Berman (D) Room # – 6011 Tel. 916- 319-2024 Staff: Elizabeth Schmitt
[email protected] CCWRO CFBA WCLP SUPPORT CalFresh This bill would provide for an objective rule to determine when shelter cost of questionable and requires verification. Chapter 90 Statutes of 2019 AB 526 Petrie-Norris Room # – 4144 Tel. 916- 319-2074 Staff: Andrew Medina Email:
[email protected] SUPPORT CDF Horizontal Integration This bill would help WIC eligible families and persons become eligible for Medi-Cal Next Step Senate Appropriations Committee Held in Committee AB 534 Mayes (R) Room # – 4098 Tel. 916- 319-2042 Staff: Brandon Ebeck
[email protected] CCWRO CFBA WCLP SUPPORT CalFresh – This bill would require the CDSS, SDPH, CDE and the Department of Food and Agriculture, to develop a plan to end hunger. For LSC Letter Click Here Next Step Two-Year Bill AB 612 Weber (D) Room # – 3104 Tel. 916- 319-2079 Staff: Kiara Patton
[email protected] WCLP SUPPORT CalFresh Restaurant Meals This bill would allow college students to use their EBT card to buy food at college campuses. For LSC Letter Click Here Next Step Two-Year Bill AB 721 – Grayson (D) Room #4164 Tel. 916-319-2014 Staff: Audrey Detmer
[email protected] SUPPORT Training Supportive Services This bill would require California Workforce development to establish Lifting Families Out of Poverty Workforce Training Services Program that would give participants up to $5,000 per participant. For LSC Letter Click Here Next Step Two-Year Bill AB 807- Bauer-Kahan Room #2130 Tel. 916-319-2016 Staff: Brandon Bratcher Email:
[email protected] CCWRO WCLP SUPPORT CalWORKs This bill would expand the number of income exemptions for CalWORKs. Next Step Senate Floor AB 870 – Burke (D) Room #5150 Tel. 916-319-2062 Staff: Harrison Bowlby Email:
[email protected] Author’s Bill SUPPORT Public Social Services This bill would require the various state agencies to examine the eligibility process and systems for public assistance programs and supportive services to help integrating services for beneficiaries of public assistance. Next Step Assembly Human Services AB 942 Weber (D) Room #3123 Tel. 916-319-2079 Staff: Tiffaney Boyd
[email protected] CCWRO WCLP SUPPORT CalWORKs This bill would provide Food Security, Food Safety, and Access to Choices Act of 2019, would require the DSS consistent with federal law, to establish a process to enter into MOU with restaurants in a county that has chosen not to administer its own RMP that can include multiple locations in the State. For LSC Letter Click Here Next Step Senate Floor AB 944 Quirk (D) Room #2163 Tel. 916-319-2020 Staff: Miranda Flores
[email protected] Alameda County CCWRO WCLP SUPPORT CalWORKs This bill requires the county to reconsider the sponsored alien indigence exception every 12 months on or after July 1, 2021. For LSC Letter Click Here Next Step Senate Floor AB 960 – Maienschein (D) Room # 2170 Tel. 916-319-2077 Staff: Michael Chen
[email protected] CCWRO WCLP SUPPORT CalWORKs -Homeless Assistance This bill would make changed in the CalWORKs homeless assistance program (HAP). It will delete the use it or lose it provision of temporary HAP, it would eliminate the once-a-year homeless assistance for homeless families and other changes. For LSC Letter Click Here Next Step Senate Floor AB 987 Rivas (D) Room #5158 Tel. 916-319-2030 Staff: Rita Durgin
[email protected] CCWRO WCLP SUPPORT CalWORKs This bill would increase the monthly maximum amount for recurring special needs to $15 and authorize the allowance for a special diet to also be used for special food preparation needs. For LSC Letter Click Here Next Step Senate Appropriations Committee AB 1022 Wicks (D) Room #5160 Tel. 916-319-2015 Staff: Samantha Huynh Email:
[email protected] WCLP CFBA SUPPORT CalWORKs This bill establishes a state-only program for persons losing CalFresh due to the federal ABAWDs program. For LSC Letter Click Here Next Step Senate Appropriation Committee AB 1091 Jones-Sawyer (D) Room #2117 Tel. 916-319-2059 Staff: Debby Marroquin Email:
[email protected] WCLP SUPPORT Child Support This bill would make modifications in collection of child support and also making child due the month following the month of having income again. For LSC Letter Click Here Two-Year Bill AB 1092 -Jones-Sawyer (D) Room #2117 Tel. 916-319-2059 Staff: Debby Marroquin Email:
[email protected] WCLP SUPPORT Child Support. The bill would instead require the department and local child support agencies, with respect to delinquencies in child support that have been assigned to the county, to charge interest on the principal amount owed at a rate no higher than the rate required by federal law on or after January 22, 2019. For LSC Letter Click Here Next Step Senate Floor AB 1377 Wicks (D) Room #5160 Tel. 916-319-2015 Staff: Raquel Mason Email:
[email protected] CWDA SUPPORT CalFresh This bill is would require schools to notify children eligible for school meals that they may also be eligible for CalFresh. Next Step Senate Floor AB 1403 Carillo(D) Room #4167 Tel. 916-319-2051 Staff: Jessica Zaragoza Email:
[email protected] CCWRO WCLP SUPPORT General Assistance This bill would amend state law which makes an adult ineligible for General Assistance when they are no longer receiving CalWORKs for a child under 18 in certain situation and subject to state appropriation of funds therefore. For LSC Letter Click Here Next Step Senate Appropriations Committee Held in Committee AB 1436 Stone (D) Room #2196 Tel. 916-319-2027 Staff: Nicole Hisatomi Email:
[email protected] WCLP CWDA SUPPORT CalWORKs This bill would increase the applicant current disregard of $225 to $500 in 1-1-20, $550 1-1-21 and $600 1-1-22. For LSC Letter Click Here Next Step Senate Human Services This bill was enacted in SB 80 this year. AB 1434 Kalra (D) Room #2196 Tel. 916-319-2027 Staff: Chris Reafe Email:
[email protected] WCLP SUPPORT SSI This bill would require that the SSI grants be equal 100% of the federal poverty level. Next Step Two-Year Bill Senate Human Services Committee Taryn Smith, Chief Committee Consultant
[email protected] Marisa Shea, Principal Consultant
[email protected] Mark Teemer, Committee Secretary
[email protected] Phone (916) 651-1524 Fax (916) 266-9350 1020 N St. Suite 521, Sacramento, CA 95814 Joe Parra, Republican Committee Consultant
[email protected] Phone (916) 651-1501 Fax (916) 445-3105 1020 N St. Suite 234, Sacramento, CA 95814 2019 Senate Human Services Committee Hearing Dates SENATE BILLS Monday – 2-25-19 Monday -3-11-19 – ASSEMBLY BLLS -TBD NOTE: All hearings at 3:00 p.m. in room #2040 All Support\/Oppose letters must be submitted here. Senate Member Human Services Staff Senator Melissa Hurtado, (D) Chair Phone: 651-4014 Fax: 651-4914 Room # 2016 Mariam Valdez, Legislative Director Email:
[email protected] Senator Jeff Stone, Vice Chair Phone: 651-4028 Fax: 651-4928 Room # 4062 David Scheidt Email:
[email protected] Senator James Beall (D) Phone: 651-4015 Fax: 651-4915 Room # 2082 Tania Dikho Email:
[email protected] Senator Hannah-Beth Jackson Phone: 651-4019 Fax: 651-4919 Room # 2032 Fernando Ramirez Email:
[email protected] Senator Mike McGuire (D) Phone: 651-40-2 Fax: 651-4902 Room # 5061 Jamal Wilson Email:
[email protected] Senator Richard Pan Phone: 651-4006 Fax: 651-4906 Room # 5114 Diana Douglas Email:
[email protected] Senator Scott Wiener Phone: 651-4011 Fax: 651-4911 Room # 5100 Brayden Borcherding Email:
[email protected] 2019 SENATE BILLS Bill Number Author Sponsor Bill Description Next Steps SB 173 (D) Dodd Room # 2024 Phone: 916-651-4024 Staff: Marisol Prieto Valli Email:
[email protected] Yolo County SUPPORT CalFresh & CalWORKs This bill would require the colleges to create a form that would inform college students that they are eligible for CalFresh because they are eligible for Work-Study and he form should serve as verification of eligibility for work-study. Chapter 139 Statutes of 2019 SB 265 Hertzberg (D) Room # 313 Phone: 916-651-4018 Staff: Cynthia Castillo
[email protected] CCWRO WCLP SUPPORT School Meals This bill would bill require those local educational agencies to ensure that a pupil whose parent or guardian has unpaid school meal fees is not shamed, treated differently, or served a meal that differs from what a pupil paying for a school meal would receive. For LSC Letter Click Here Next Step Assembly Floor SB 285 Wiener (D) Room # 5100 Phone: 916-651-4011 Staff: Brayden Borcherding
[email protected] SUPPORT CCWRO WCLP CalFresh This bill would require the State Department of Social Services to ensure counties are providing the desired access to CalFresh and meeting specified participation performance outcomes and require DSS to develop a universal application. For LSC Letter Click Here Next Step Assembly Appropriations Committee- Held in Committee SB 298 Caballero (D) Room # 5052 Phone: 916-651-4012 Staff: Enedina Garcia
[email protected] SUPPORT Poverty Reduction This bill would require the DSS, starting 2020 and every 2 years thereafter, to do an analysis and submit a report to the Legislature with specified information, including, among other things, a compilation of recommendations made by the task force that have been implemented and an estimate of the impact on child poverty and deep child poverty the implemented recommendations have had. Next Step Assembly Appropriations Committee- Held in Committee SB 321 – Mitchell (D) Room # 5050 Phone 916-651-4030 Staff: Bridget Kolakovsky
[email protected] Child Care Law Center Parent Voices SUPPORT CalWORKs This bill would make changes in Child Care by making Stage 1 child care available from the day CalWORKs beneficiaries are approved for CalWORKs for a period of one-year or when the case is transferred to Stage 2. For LSC Letter Click Here Next Step Assembly Human Services SB 337- Skinner (D) Room # 5094 Phone 916-651-4009 Staff: Fred Williams
[email protected] WCLP SUPPORT CalWORKs This bill would pass through all child support payments to the family as exempt income. For LSC Letter Click Here Next Step Assembly Floor SB 365 Durazo (D) Room # 5066 Phone 916-651-4024 Staff: Bethany Renfree
[email protected] CCWRO WCLP SUPPORT CalWORKs This bill would amend the CalWORKs Immediate Need statute to (1) make certain that parents with a job or a verified job offer who need childcare in order to work are deemed to be in immediate need if apparently eligible for CalWORKs. For LSC Letter Click Here Next Step Assembly Floor SB 374 – Glazer (D) Co-Author Stone (R) & Lackey (R) Room # 5108 Phone 916-651-4007 Staff: Sakshi Walia
[email protected] Author with CCWRO WCLP Support SUPPORT CalWORKs This bill would deem CalWORKs students attending publicly funded education entity full-time to be meeting the CalWORKs welfare-to-work requirements and provide students advance payments for books. For LSC Letter Click Here Next Step Two-Year Bill SB 470 – Skinner (D) Room # 5094 Phone 916-651-4009 Staff: Fred Williams
[email protected] WCLP CGA UFCW SUPPORT CalFresh This bill would prevent online cash EBT purchases unless retailer has been approved by CDSS and would establish food safety requirements for online CalFresh EBT purchases. For LSC Letter Click Here Next Step Assembly Appropriations Committee- Held in Committee SB 490- Hurdato (D) Room # 2054 Phone 916-651-4014 Staff: Mariam Valdez
[email protected] WCLP SUPPORT CalFresh This bill would stop establishing a claim and collecting CalFresh administrative error overpayments from SSI recipients. For LSC Letter Click Here Assembly Floor SB 735 Leyva Room # 4061 Phone 916-651-4020 Staff: Nycole Baruch
[email protected] CCWRO SUPPORT Public Assistance Benefits This bill would require that the computer system alert workers immediately that the applicant or recipients needs ADA accommodations. Chapter 155 Statutes of 2019 1 California Public Benefits Legislative Bill & Budget Action Tracker #2019-14 Assembly Appropriations Committee Jennifer Swenson, Democratic Consultant Email:
[email protected] Phone 916-319-2081 fax 916-319-2181 Room # 2114 Jared Yoshiki, Republican Consultant Email:
[email protected] Tel. 916-319-3900 Fax 319-3902 1020 N Street, Suite 400 Committee Members Office Phone Fax Lorena Gonzales (D) Chair Room 2114 (916) 319-2051 (916) 319-2080 Frank Bigelow – (R) (Vice Chair) Room 6027 (916) 319-2005 (916) 319-2105 Richard Bloom (D) Room 2003 (916) 319-2050 (916) 319-2150 Rob Bonta – (D) Room 2148 (916) 319-2018 (916) 319-2118 Bill Brough (R) Room 3141 (916) 319-2073 (916) 319-2173 Ian C. Calderon – (D) Room 319 (916) 319-2057 (916) 319-2157 Wendy Carrillo – (D) Room 4167 (916) 319-2051 (916) 319-2151 Ed Chau- (D) Room 5016 (916) 319-2049 (916) 319-2149 Tyler Diep (R) Room 5126 (916) 319-2072 (916) 319-2172 Susan Eggman – (D) Room 4117 (916) 319-2013 (916) 319-2113 Vince Fong- (R) Room 4144 (916) 319-2034 (916) 319-2134 Jesse Gabriel (D) Room 4162 (916) 319-2045 (916) 319-2145 Eduardo Garcia – (D) Room 4140 (916) 319-2056 (916) 319-2156 Jay Obernolte – (R) Room 4116 (916) 319-2003 (916) 319-2103 Cottie Petrie-Norris (D) Room 3149 (916) 319-2074 (916) 319-2174 Robert Rivas (D) Room 5158 (916) 319-2030 (916) 319-2130 Every Wednesday 9 am, Room 4202 – See Committee Hearing Agenda Senate Committee on Appropriations Debra Cooper, Democratic Consultant Email:
[email protected] Phone 916-651-4101 Room # 2206 Anthony Archie, Republican Consultant Email:
[email protected] 916-651-1501 1020 N Street, Suite 234, Sacramento, CA 9581 Committee Members Office Phone Fax Senator Anthony Portantino – (D) Chair 3086 (916) 651-4025 (916) 651-4925 Senator Patricia Bates – (R) (V- Chair) 4048 (916) 651-4036 (916) 651-4936 Senator Jim Beall – (D) 5066 (916) 651-4015 (916) 651-4915 Senator Jerry Hill – (D) 5035 (916) 651-4013 (916) 651-4913 Steven Bradford – (D) 2054 (916) 651-4035 (916) 651-4935 Senator Jim Nielsen – (R) 2068 (916) 651-4004 (916) 651-4904 Senator Scott Wiener- (D) 4070 (916) 651-4011 (916) 651-4911 Every Monday 10 am, Room 4203 – See Committee Hearing Agenda 2019 State Budget Committees Assembly Budget Subcommittee Committee # 1 Assembly Budget Committee Sub #1 Staff Staff Eloise Reyes- (D) Acting Chair Phone: 916-319-2047 Fax: 916-319-2147 Room # 2175 Amer Rashid
[email protected] Jim Frazier (D) Phone: 319-2074 Fax: 319-2174 Rm. #: 5126 Marc Engrtrom
[email protected] Devon Mathis (R) Phone: 319-2026 Fax: 319-2117 Rm. #: 2196 Justin Boman
[email protected] Jim Patterson (R) Phone: 319-2026 Fax: 319-2117 Rm. #: 2196 Christine Rose
[email protected] James Ramos (D) Phone: 319-2026 Fax: 319-2117 Rm. #: 2196 John Nam
[email protected] Blanca Rubio (D) Phone: 319-2048 Fax: 319-2148 Rm, #: 5175 Taylor Woolfork
[email protected] Jim Wood (D) Phone: 319-2034 Fax: 319-2134 Rm, #: 4208 Liz Snow
[email protected] Subcommittee Staff Democratic Committee Consultant Phone 319-2099 Fax 319-2199 Room 6029 Nicole Vazquez
[email protected] Republican Committee Consultant Phone: 319-3900 Fax: 319-3902 Cyndi Hillery
[email protected] Sub #1 Hearings for 2019 State Budget Bill for 2019-2020 AB 74 13 California Public Benefits Legislative Bill & Budget Action Tracker #2019-14 [bookmark: _GoBack] Senate Budget Committee Sub. # 3 Senate Budget Committee Sub #3 Staff Email Address Senator Richard Pan, (D) Chair Phone: 651-4006 Room #: 5080 Bernadette Lawrence
[email protected] Senator Jeff Stone, (R) Vice Chair Phone: 651-4028 Room #: 4062 Chris Norden
[email protected] Senator Melissa Hurtado, (D) Phone: 651-4014 Room # 2016 Mariam Valdez
[email protected] Subcommittee Staff Committee Democratic Consultant Phone: 651-4103 Fax: 323-8386 Room #: 5097 Renita Polk,
[email protected] Committee Republican Consultant Phone: 651-1501 Fax: 414-3681 1020 N , Suite 234, Sacramento, CA 95814 Anthony Archie
[email protected] State Budget Bill for 2019-2020 SB 73 Sub #3 Hearings for 2019 2019 CALENDAR TENTATIVE LEGISLATIVE CALENDAR FIRST YEAR OF BIENNIUM CALIFORNIA STATE ASSEMBLY & SENATE 2019 20 REGULAR Aug. 12 \u2014Legislature reconvenes from Summer Recess (J.R. 51(a)(3)). Aug. 30 \u2014Last day for fiscal committees to meet and report bills (J.R. 61(a)(12)). Sep. 2 \u2014Labor Day. Sep. 3-13 \u2014Floor Session only. No committee may meet for any purpose, except Rules Committee, bills referred pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2, and Conference Committees (J.R. 61(a)(13)). Sep. 6 \u2014Last day to amend on the Floor (J.R. 61(a)(14)). Sep. 13 \u2014Last day for any bill to be passed (J.R. 61(a)(15)). Interim Recess begins upon adjournment (J.R. 51(a)(4)). Oct. 13 \u2014Last day for Governor to sign or veto bills passed by the Legislature on or before Sept. 13 and in the Governor’s possession on or after Sept. 13 (Art. IV, Sec.10(b)(1)). 2020 Jan. 1 \u2014Statutes take effect (Art. IV, Sec. 8(c)). Jan. 6 \u2014Legislature reconvenes (J.R. 51(a)(4)). (SOME DATES INCLUDED IN THIS CALENDAR ARE SUBJECT TO CHANGE) CCWRO – The Coalition of California Welfare Rights Organizations, Inc. (CCWRO) is a state- wide nonprofit organization providing support services to qualified legal service field programs (QLSPs) funded by the Legal Services Trust Fund Commission. CCWRO has been providing support services for the past 35 years.CCWRO Services for IOLTA Qualified Legal Services Field Programs CCWRO provides consultation, information and representation for IOLTA qualified legal services programs regarding public benefit programs such as: CalWORKs, CalFresh, also known as Food Stamps or SNAP, General Assistance and General Relief, SSI, Welfare to Work and other Public Assistance Programs. CCWRO maintains current information on the status of pending or recently proposed and enacted state and federal legislation and regulations. CCWRO collects, monitors and disseminates statistical information relating to public assistance programs throughout California to legal services programs statewide. CCWRO provides public benefits training upon request depending on availability of staff. Programs Covered CalWORKs Cash Assistance to Immigrants (CAPI) Child Care Child Support CalFresh, also known as Food Stamps or SNAP General Assistance\/ General Relief In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) Medi-Cal Refugee Cash Assistance (RCA) Welfare Immigration SSI eligibility issues Welfare-to-Work (WtW) Services CCWRO provides: – Immediate response to questions from legal services programs regarding public benefit programs, laws and regulations. – Collects and disperses statistical information and analysis on the public assistance programs, including statistical information upon request from qualified legal services program. – Provides status information on pending state legislation and regulations. – Legislative Advocacy – Administrative Advocacy – Co-counsel on administrative lawsuits. – Client representation assistance at fair hearings. CCWRO Staff 1111 Howe Avenue, Suite 150 Sacramento, CA 958725-8661 Telephone 916-736-0616 Fax- 916-736-2645 Kevin Aslanian, Executive Director, Legislative Advocate Email:
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