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Committee advances SB 290 to repeal CalWORKs immunization documentation penalty
Summary
SB 290 would remove a financial sanction in CalWORKs that reduces a family's cash grant when a household cannot produce acceptable vaccination documentation; supporters said the penalty disproportionately affects families already in poverty.
Senator Smallwood Cuevas presented SB 290, which would repeal the CalWORKs immunization penalty that can reduce a family's monthly grant when they cannot provide documentation showing a required immunization even when the child may already be vaccinated.
The sponsor said many CalWORKs families receive vaccinations at community clinics or pop-up sites that do not issue standardized records, and that parents have been sanctioned despite their children having received vaccines. "Parents were sanctioned even after receiving immunizations simply because documentation…
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