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 05/18/26 - Amended Assembly
 02/20/26 - Introduced

 AB-2510 CalWORKs.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/15/2026 09:00 PM

AB2510:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 June 15, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 May 18, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 2510

Introduced by Assembly Member Arambula

February 20, 2026

 An act to amend Sections 11320.3 11265.2, 11320.3, and 11325.21 of, and to amend, repeal, and add Section 11203 of, the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to CalWORKs. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2510, as amended, Arambula.
 CalWORKs.

(1) Under existing law, if the federal government provides funds for the care of a needy relative with whom a needy child is living, aid to the child for any month includes aid to meet the needs of that relative, except as prescribed. Existing law establishes the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, under which each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families using federal, state, and county funds. Existing law provides that the parent or parents are to be considered living with the needy child for a period of up to 6 months, or for a time period as determined by the State Department of Social Services, of the needy child’s absence from the family assistance unit, and that the parents are eligible for CalWORKs aid and childcare services if specified conditions are met, including, among
 others, that the child has been removed from the parent or parents and that the family was receiving aid under when the child was removed. Existing law requires all applicants for or recipients of CalWORKs to ensure and provide documentation that each child in the assistance unit who is not required to be enrolled in school has received all age-appropriate immunizations, as specified.

This bill would make technical changes to the provisions regarding a parent’s eligibility to receive aid as if the child or children were living with them. The bill would also specify that those provisions do not require all children to be removed from the parent or parents or that some, but not all, of the children have reunified. The bill would exempt a family participating in cooperating in the development of, or
 participating in, a reunification case plan from specified immunization requirements. For a family receiving state-funded CalWORKs reunification cash aid whose grant was lowered as a sanction for not cooperating with child support enforcement, as specified, the bill would require the sanction to end upon the removal of the child from the assistance unit and their placement into out-of-home care. The bill would make these provisions operative on July 1, 2027, or when the department notifies the Legislature that the Statewide Automated Welfare System can perform any automation the department deems necessary to implement these provisions or that no automation is necessary, whichever is later, and would prohibit the implementation of these provisions from resulting in a retroactive payment or underpayment. 
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If an applicant applies for assistance for a child who is currently aided in another assistance unit and the county determines that the applicant has care and control of the child and is otherwise eligible, existing law requires the county to discontinue aid to the child in the existing assistance unit and aid the child in the applicant’s assistance unit, as specified. If the county is notified that a child for whom CalWORKs assistance is currently being paid has been placed in a foster care home, existing law requires the county to discontinue aid to the child at the end of the month of placement.

Notwithstanding the above-described requirements to
 discontinue aid, if a foster care placement is with the formerly noncustodial parent of the removed child, this bill would prohibit the county from discontinuing aid to the original assistance unit if it is otherwise eligible for CalWORKs reunification cash aid, as specified.

 To the extent that this bill would expand county responsibilities under the CalWORKs program, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

(2) Existing law generally requires a recipient of CalWORKs to participate in welfare-to-work activiti