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Cal. Welf. & Inst. Code § 11495.16

Family Violence Option: Domestic Violence and Welfare

Known as the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids Act

The act spans §§ 11200 to 11526.5 (396 sections).

Amended by Stats. 2025, Ch. 386, Sec. 5

(a) All CalWORKs applicants and recipients shall be informed verbally and in writing, and to the extent required by law, in the language understood by the applicant or recipient, of the availability of services designed to assist individuals to identify, escape, or stop future domestic abuse as well as to overcome the effects of domestic abuse.

(b) This section shall be inoperative on January 1, 2028, or when the department notifies the Legislature that the Statewide Automated Welfare System can perform the necessary automation to implement Section 11495.15, as added by the act that added this subdivision, whichever date is later, and as of January 1 of the following year, is repealed.

Official source: California Legislative Information. Reproduced from public-domain California statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.