BILL NUMBER: SB 1453	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Price

                        FEBRUARY 19, 2010

   An act to relating to public social services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 1453, as introduced, Price. CalWORKs and food stamps.
   Existing law requires each county to provide cash assistance and
other social services to needy families through the California Work
Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program using
federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) block grant
program, state, and county funds. Under existing law, the county is
required to annually redetermine eligibility for CalWORKs benefits.
   Existing law additionally requires the county to redetermine
recipient eligibility and grant amounts on a quarterly basis, using
prospective budgeting, and to prospectively determine the grant
amount that a recipient is entitled to receive for each month of the
quarterly reporting period. Existing law requires a CalWORKs
recipient to report to the county, orally or in writing, specified
changes that could affect the amount of aid to which the recipient is
entitled. Under existing law, the CalWORKs quarterly reporting
system is also implemented by the State Department of Social Services
in administering the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance
Program, which is administered in California as the Food Stamp
program. Under the Food Stamp program, each county distributes
nutrition assistance benefits to eligible households.
   This bill would declare the intent of the Legislature to enact
Legislation that would reform fingerprinting, asset limitation, and
reporting requirements under the CalWORKs program and the Food Stamp
program.
   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.  It is the intent of the Legislature to enact
Legislation that would reform fingerprinting, asset limitation, and
reporting requirements under the CalWORKs program and the Food Stamp
program.