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Committee advances AB 119 to change CalWORKs, foster-care rates and training for mandated reporters
Summary
The Senate budget committee passed AB 119, a human-services trailer bill that implements CalWORKs reforms, makes changes to foster-care tiered rates subject to appropriation, requires a standardized mandated-reporter curriculum and eliminates the county dollar-for-dollar match for two homelessness-prevention programs. The committee vote was 13–5.
AB 119, a human-services trailer bill, cleared the California State Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review after debate over program design and funding contingencies.
The bill "implements the following significant human services proposals," Rosanna Nguyen of the Department of Finance told the committee: it streamlines the CalWORKs program, makes technical changes to the new foster-care tiered rate structure and makes implementation of those rates subject to an appropriation. It also directs the Department of Social Services to develop a standardized curriculum for mandated reporters and…
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