California Legislature—2015–16 Regular Session

Assembly Bill No. 2608

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 begin insert that end insert the county will use to identify local labor
market needs.

(d) The range of welfare-to-work activities begin insert that end insert the county will
offer recipients and the identification of any allowable activities
that will not be offered.

(e) The process begin insert that end insert the county will use to provide for the
availability of substance abuse and mental health treatment
services.

(f) The process begin insert that end insert 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 begin insert that end insert 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 begin insert former end insert Section 15365.55 of the Government Code in counties
that choose to implement the program described in begin insert former end insert 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 begin delete 10544.5, end delete begin insert 10544.317, end insert
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.