Bill Text: CA AB2415 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Cash assistance for aged, blind, and disabled immigrants.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-0)

Status: (Introduced) 2024-05-16 - In committee: Held under submission. [AB2415 Detail]

Download: California-2023-AB2415-Introduced.html

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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2415

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Introduced by Assembly Member Juan Carrillo

February 13, 2024

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An act to amend Section 18937 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public social services.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2415, as introduced, Juan Carrillo. Cash assistance for aged, blind, and disabled legal immigrants.

Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to establish and supervise a county- or county consortia-administered program to provide cash assistance to aged, blind, and disabled legal immigrants who are not citizens and who successfully complete an application process, except as specified. Existing law requires the department to conduct disability evaluations for the program. Existing law requires the department to contract with the federal government to administer the program, if the federal government agrees to do so.

This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

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 18937 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is amended to read:

18937.

 The State Department of Social Services shall establish and supervise a county- or county consortia-administered program to provide cash assistance to aged, blind, and disabled legal immigrants who are not citizens and who successfully complete an application process. No application shall An application shall not be required of individuals described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (b) of Section 18944. The department shall conduct the evaluations of disability disability evaluations for the program. If the federal government agrees to administer the program, the department shall contract with the federal government for this purpose, and the county responsibilities shall be reduced by the duties and responsibilities undertaken by the federal government. the federal government undertakes.