Bill Text: CA SB462 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Chaptered

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Bill Title: General assistance.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-3)

Status: (Passed) 2023-07-21 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 110, Statutes of 2023. [SB462 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB462-Chaptered.html

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Senate Bill No. 462

CHAPTER 110

An act to add Section 17006.1 to the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public social services.

[ Approved by Governor  July 21, 2023. Filed with Secretary of State  July 21, 2023. ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 462, Wahab. General assistance.

Existing law requires each county to provide aid to its indigent residents not supported by other means. These county programs are known as general assistance programs. Existing law requires the board of supervisors of every county to, among other things, investigate every application for relief from the funds of the county, to supervise every person receiving that relief, and to keep full and complete records of the investigation, supervision, relief, and rehabilitation. Existing law requires those records to be confidential and not be open to examination or inspection, except as specified.

This bill would provide that those provisions do not prohibit sharing of confidential information for purposes directly connected with the administration of relief or with the administration of public social services, as defined.

Digest Key

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: NO   Local Program: NO  

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Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 17006.1 is added to the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:

17006.1.

 Section 17006 does not prohibit sharing of confidential information for purposes directly connected with the administration of relief from the funds of any California county or for purposes directly connected with the administration of public social services as defined by Section 10051.