SB 890 California Senate · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Public social services.

Summary

Existing law establishes various public social services programs, including, among others, the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program and CalFresh. Existing law states that the purpose of its provisions relating to public social services is to provide protection, care, and assistance to the people of the state in need of them, and to promote the welfare and happiness of all of the people of the state by providing appropriate aid and services to those who are needy and distressed. This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision.

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Jan 2026

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Jan 14, 2026 Last action Feb 11, 2026

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What changed between versions

01/14/26 - Introduced → SB890 · 1 edit

MINOR

No substantive policy changes occurred between these two versions. The bill text remains identical, making the same technical, nonsubstantive edits to Section 10000 of the Welfare and Institutions Code. The only difference is that the document was reformatted from a traditional legislative print layout (with line numbers and page headers) into a web page rendering with navigation elements.

TECHNICAL

The bill was reformatted from a printed legislative document style (with line numbers, page breaks, and official headers) to a web-based presentation format including site navigation, search fields, and metadata. The underlying statutory language is unchanged.

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Committee

Feb 11, 2026

Committee

Referred to Com. on RLS.

upper

Jan 14, 2026

Introduced

Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

upper

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors