20250SB__088999INT INTRODUCED 2026-01-14 SB INT Introduced by Senator Ashby LEAD_AUTHOR SENATE Ashby

An act to amend

Section of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to public social services. public social services Public social services. Existing law establishes various public social services programs, including, among others, CalWORKs and the State Supplementary Program for the Aged, Blind and Disabled. Existing law sets forth the purposes of public social services for which state grants are made to counties that include, among others, providing reasonable support and maintenance for needy and dependent families and persons, as specified. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to those provisions.

MAJORITY NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section of the Welfare and Institutions Code is amended to read: 10001. The purposes of the public social services for which state grants-in-aid are made to counties are as follows: (

a) To provide on behalf of the general public, and within the limits of public resources, reasonable support and maintenance for needy and dependent families and persons. (

b) To provide timely and appropriate services to assist individuals to develop or use whatever capacity they can maintain or achieve for self-care or self-support. (

c) To provide protective services to handicapped or deprived individuals subject to social or legal disability and to children and others subject to exploitation that jeopardizes their present or future health, opportunity for normal development, or capacity for independence.