Bill Text: CA AB2608 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: CalWORKs: county plans.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Failed) 2016-11-30 - Died at Desk. [AB2608 Detail]

Download: California-2015-AB2608-Introduced.html

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BILL NUMBER: AB 2608	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Chu

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2016

   An act to amend Section 10531 of the Welfare and Institutions
Code, relating to CalWORKs.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 2608, as introduced, Chu. CalWORKs: county plans.
   Existing law establishes 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 using federal Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF)
block grant program, state, and county funds. Existing law requires
each county to develop a plan, updated as needed, that describes how
the county intends to deliver the full range of activities and
services necessary to move CalWORKs recipients from welfare to work,
and specifies elements that must be included in the plan. Existing
law requires each county, no later than September 1, 1998, and each
year thereafter, subject to continued welfare-to-work funding, to
submit an addendum to the county's plan that describes certain
coordination efforts of the county pertaining to welfare-to-work
activities.
   This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those
provisions.
   Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no.
State-mandated local program: no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

  SECTION 1.  Section 10531 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is
amended to read:
   10531.  Each county shall develop a plan consistent with state law
that describes how the county intends to deliver the full range of
activities and services necessary to move CalWORKs recipients from
welfare to work. The plan shall be updated as needed. The plan shall
describe:
   (a) How the county will collaborate with other public and private
agencies to provide for all necessary training, and support services.

   (b) The county's partnerships with the private sector, including
employers and employer associations, and how those partnerships will
identify jobs for CalWORKs program recipients.
   (c) Other means  that  the county will use to identify
local labor market needs.
   (d) The range of welfare-to-work activities  that  the
county will offer recipients and the identification of any allowable
activities that will not be offered.
   (e) The process  that  the county will use to provide for
the availability of substance abuse and mental health treatment
services.
   (f) The process  that  the county will use to provide for
child care and transportation services.
   (g) The county's community service plan.
   (h) How the county will provide training of county workers
responsible for working with CalWORKs recipients who are victims of
domestic violence.
   (i) The performance outcomes identified during the local planning
process that the county or other local agencies will track in order
to measure the extent to which the county's program meets locally
established objectives.
   (j) The means  that  the county used to provide broad
public input to the development of the county's plan.
   (k) A budget that specifies the source and expenditures of funds
for the program.
   (  l  ) How the county will assist families that are
transitioning off aid.
   (m) All necessary components of the job creation plan required by
 former  Section 15365.55 of the Government Code in counties
that choose to implement the program described in  former
Chapter 1.12 (commencing with Section 15365.50) of Part 6.7 of
Division 3 of Title 2 of the Government Code.
   (n) Other elements identified by the director, in consultation
with the steering committee under Section  10544.5, 
 10544.317,  including elements related to the performance
outcomes listed in Sections 10540 and 10541.
   (o) How the county will comply with federal requirements of the
Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program (Part A (commencing
with Section 601) of Subchapter 4 of Chapter 7 of Title 42 of the
United States Code).
   (p) How the county will coordinate welfare-to-work activities with
the local private industry councils or alternate administrative
entities designated by the Governor to administer local
welfare-to-work programs, including the expenditure of state or other
matching funds provided to the county welfare department for
welfare-to-work activities. No later than September 1, 1998, and each
year thereafter, subject to continued welfare-to-work funding, each
county shall submit an addendum to its plan required under this
section that describes its coordination efforts.