(a) During the annual budget process, the department shall update the Legislature at hearings regarding the number of CalWORKs welfare-to-work recipients, aggregated by county, who have been identified as potential victims of domestic abuse during the online CalWORKs appraisal process. The report shall also include a list of counties that require domestic violence survivors to be offered waivers pursuant to Section 11495.15 and a summary of actions taken by the department to address the specific and unique needs of survivors of domestic abuse.

(b) This section shall become operative on July 1, 2018.

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(Added by Stats. 2017, Ch. 691, Sec. 7. (AB 557) Effective January 1, 2018. Section operative July 1, 2018, by its own provisions.)