CA AB807

Removes the requirement that awards or scholarships for dependent children must be based on academic or extracurricular achievement to be exempt from CalWORKs income calculations.

Exempts income or stipends paid by the United States Census Bureau, governmental entities, or nonprofit organizations for temporary decennial census work earned during the year before and the year of a decennial census from being counted as CalWORKs income.

Requires the State Department of Social Services to adopt implementing regulations by October 1, 2022, and permits implementation through all-county letters until regulations are finalized.

Excludes this legislation from the continuous appropriation under Section 15200 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, meaning no automatic state funding for implementing these changes.

Takes effect immediately as an urgency statute to ensure exemptions apply to workers employed in 2019 for the 2020 Census.