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           AB 1233
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          CONCURRENCE IN SENATE AMENDMENTS
          AB 1233 (Aroner)
          As Amended August 18, 2000
          Majority vote
           
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          |ASSEMBLY:  |41-37|(January 31,    |SENATE: |21-11|(August 25,    |
          |           |     |2000)           |        |     |2000)          |
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           Original Committee Reference:    HUM. S.  

           SUMMARY  :   Allows counties to offer grant-based on-the-job  
          training to California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to  
          Kids (CalWORKs) participants.

           The Senate amendments  delete the Assembly version of this bill,  
          and instead:

          1)Require the county, in calculating a participant's maximum aid  
            payment, to include wages that are funded by the diversion of  
            a participant's cash grant or by the grant savings derived  
            from the participants' employment.

          2)Permit the county to divert both the participant's cash grant  
            and the aid grant savings resulting from the participant's  
            employment as a wage subsidy to employers providing  
            grant-based on-the-job training.

          3)Prohibit the county from diverting a grant amount that exceeds  
            the family's maximum aid payment.

          4)Permit the county to cancel the participation of employers who  
            are unable to provide job skills that contribute to  
            participants obtaining unsubsidized employment.

          5)Prohibit the county from assigning a CalWORKs participant to  
            grant-based on-the-job training unless the participant  
            voluntarily agrees to participate by completing a consent  
            form.

           AS PASSED BY THE ASSEMBLY  , this bill revised the education  
          component of the CalWORKs program to permit participants  
          enrolled in educational or vocational training programs to count  








          
           AB 1233
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          classroom preparation time toward their 32-hour work  
          participation requirement.
           
          FISCAL EFFECT  :  Contains reimbursement direction.

           COMMENTS  :  This bill was substantially amended in the Senate.   
          Under current law, counties cannot offer grant-based on-the-job  
          training programs to CalWORKs participants because participants  
          could receive more than their maximum aid payment.  This bill,  
          sponsored by Los Angeles and San Francisco counties, modifies  
          current law to provide counties the option of implementing  
          grant-based on-the-job training programs for CalWORKs  
          participants. 
           

          Analysis Prepared by :  Kirsten Deichert / HUM. S. / (916)  
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