California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California SB1099: State and local public benefits.
Status: Chaptered, September 30, 2026
What the bill says
An act to amend Sections 17850 and 17851 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public social services. public social services State and local public benefits. 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…
From the chaptered text, September 30, 2026:
An act to amend Sections 17850 and 17851 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public social services. public social services State and local public benefits. 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 …
Sponsors
- Reyes, Eloise Gómez (D, SD29) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 1009, Statutes of 2026.
- : Approved by the Governor.
- : Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- : In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- : Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 63. Noes 4. Page 6371.) Ordered to the Senate.
- : Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate.
- : Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
- : From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 30).
- : 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.
- : Referred to Coms. on HEALTH and HUM. S.
Votes
- SB 1099 Reyes Senate Third Reading By Harabedian (August 24, 2026): 63 yea, 4 nay, passed
- Do pass. (June 30, 2026): 5 yea, 1 nay, passed
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services] (June 9, 2026): 12 yea, 1 nay, passed
- Senate 3rd Reading SB1099 Reyes (May 4, 2026): 40 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Do pass (April 20, 2026): 3 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services] (March 25, 2026): 11 yea, 0 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is SB1099?
- SB1099 is a bill in the California Legislature (2025-2026 Regular Session): State and local public benefits.
- What does SB1099 do?
- In its own words: An act to amend Sections 17850 and 17851 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public social services. public social services State and local public benefits. 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…
- What is the status of SB1099?
- Chaptered as of September 30, 2026. Latest action: Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 1009, Statutes of 2026. (September 30, 2026).
- Who sponsored SB1099?
- Reyes, Eloise Gómez (D, SD29).
- Where is the official record for SB1099?
- On the California Legislature website: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB1099
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