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California 20252026

SB 1099

State and local public benefits.

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Official record

Measure details

Jurisdiction
California
Session
20252026
Chamber
upper
Classification
bill
Subjects
Stateandlocalpublicbenefits
Introduced / first action
2026-02-13 00:00:00

Source-supplied abstracts

Existing law establishes various public social services programs to provide eligible recipients with certain aid or health care benefits, among others. Existing law also requires each county to provide aid to its indigent residents who are not supported by other means under programs known as general assistance programs. Existing federal law, the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA) , makes specified persons without lawful status in the United States ineligible for state and local public benefits unless a state law is enacted that affirmatively provides for that eligibility, and defines "state or local public benefit" to mean, among other things, any retirement, welfare, health, disability, public or assisted housing, postsecondary education, food assistance, unemployment benefit, or any other similar benefit for which payments or assistance are provided to an individual, household, or family eligibility unit by an agency of a state or local government or by appropriated funds of a state or local government. Existing state law authorizes a city, county, city and county, or hospital district, at its discretion, to provide aid, including health care, to persons who, but for the previously described provision of the federal PRWORA, would meet the eligibility requirements for any program of that entity. This bill would clarify that the above-described authorization for provision of aid is an authorization to provide a state or local public benefit, as defined by the federal PRWORA.

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Source-supplied history

Actions

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 1009, Statutes of 2026.

    became-law

  2. Approved by the Governor.

    executive-signature

  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.

    executive-receipt

  4. In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

    committee-passage

  5. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 63. Noes 4. Page 6371.) Ordered to the Senate.

    passage, reading-1, reading-3

  6. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

    reading-1, reading-2, reading-3

  7. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 30).

    committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable

  8. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (June 9). Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.

    committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee

  9. Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and HUM. S.

    referral-committee

  10. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

    reading-1

  11. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4131.) Ordered to the Assembly.

    passage, reading-1, reading-3

  12. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

    reading-1, reading-2, reading-3

  13. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 3. Noes 0. Page 3955.) (April 20).

    committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable

  14. Set for hearing April 20.

  15. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUMAN S. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3690.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S.

    committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee

  16. Set for hearing March 25.

  17. Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and HUMAN S.

    referral-committee

  18. From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.

  19. Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

    introduction, reading-1, referral-committee

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