Bill Text: CA AB2712 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: California Universal Basic Income (CalUBI) Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-11 - Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. [AB2712 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB2712-Introduced.html
Bill Title: California Universal Basic Income (CalUBI) Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2020-05-11 - Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. [AB2712 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB2712-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2712
Introduced by Assembly Member Low |
February 20, 2020 |
An act to add Chapter 13 (commencing with Section 18992) to Part 6 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public social services.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2712, as introduced, Low.
California Universal Basic Income (CalUBI) Program.
Existing law establishes the State Department of Social Services and requires the department to administer various public social services programs, including 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 and individuals, and the CalFresh program, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county.
This bill would require the department, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature, to administer the California Universal Basic Income Program, under which a California resident who is 18 years of age or older shall receive a universal basic income of $1,000 per month, except as specified. The bill would define
universal basic income to mean unconditional cash payments of equal amounts issued monthly to individual residents of California with the intention of ensuring the economic security of recipients. The bill would authorize the department to adopt regulations to implement the program, and would state the intent of the Legislature to fund the CalUBI Program with a value-added tax of 10% on goods and services, as specified.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Chapter 13 (commencing with Section 18992) is added to Part 6 of Division 9 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:CHAPTER 13. California Universal Basic Income (CalUBI) Program
18992.
This chapter shall be known, and may be cited, as the California Universal Basic Income Act.18992.1.
(a) Subject to an appropriation by the Legislature for this purpose, the State Department of Social Services shall administer the California Universal Basic Income (CalUBI) Program. Under the CalUBI Program, a California resident who is 18 years of age or older shall receive a universal basic income of $1,000 per month, except as specified in subdivision (b).(b) California residents who are 18 years of age or older and receiving benefits under the Medi-Cal program, the County Medical Services Program, the CalFresh program, the CalWORKs program, or Unemployment Insurance shall not be eligible to receive a universal basic income under the CalUBI Program.