CA SB 1099

introduced

State and local public benefits.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Description

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.

Introduced: 2026-02-13
Status date: —
Latest action: 2026-07-02 — Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Stateandlocalpublicbenefits

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

2026-02-13
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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2026-02-17
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.
2026-02-26
Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and HUMAN S.
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2026-03-09
Set for hearing March 25.
2026-03-26
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.
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2026-04-09
Set for hearing April 20.
2026-04-21
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 3. Noes 0. Page 3955.) (April 20).
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2026-04-22
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2026-05-04
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4131.) Ordered to the Assembly.
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2026-05-04
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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2026-05-18
Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and HUM. S.
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2026-06-10
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.
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2026-07-01
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 30).
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2026-07-02
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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Versions

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Votes

Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services]
2026-03-25 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (11)
- Menjivar: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Grove: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Valladares: yes
Do pass
2026-04-20 · pass · 3-0
Member-level votes (5)
- Becker: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Laird: yes
- Pérez: other
- Niello: other
3rd Reading
2026-05-04 · pass · 40-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Cervantes: yes
- Laird: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Stern: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Allen: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Jones: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Limón: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Grove: yes
- Niello: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Choi: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Becker: yes
- McNerney: yes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services]
2026-06-09 · pass · 12-1
Member-level votes (16)
- Stefani: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Chen: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Addis: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Patel: yes
- Sanchez: no
- Schiavo: other
- Patterson: other
- Johnson: other
Do pass.
2026-06-30 · pass · 5-1
Member-level votes (7)
- Elhawary: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Lee: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Sanchez: no
- Tangipa: other

Related bills

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