BILL NUMBER: AB 1173	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Huber

                        FEBRUARY 18, 2011

   An act relating to public social services.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   AB 1173, as introduced, Huber. Preventing welfare fraud: county
pilot program.
   Existing law establishes various social service programs that
provide cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income
families and individuals. Existing law establishes criminal
penalties, including the imposition of specified fines, for violation
of certain provisions relating to, among other offenses, willfully
and knowingly making a false statement or failing to disclose a
material fact in order to obtain designated public social services.
   This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact
legislation to establish a pilot program that would reimburse a
county for the operation of a county program that prevents or reduces
welfare fraud, provided that the county demonstrates the program
produces a savings to the state that exceeds the cost of the
operation of the 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 to establish a pilot program that would reimburse a
county for the operation of a county program that prevents or reduces
welfare fraud, provided that the county demonstrates the program
produces a savings to the state that exceeds the cost of the
operation of the program.