Report on Impact of Welfare Reform Ordered
The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday ordered county officials to report back within a month on the potential ramifications to county programs of Gov. Pete Wilson’s executive order last week directing state agencies to stop providing public services for illegal immigrants.
The supervisors asked new county Chief Administrative Officer David E. Janssen to provide the information in an update on the impact of the landmark welfare reform bill signed by President Clinton last month.
As a first step in implementing the federal law, Wilson directed state agencies to review a broad array of education, welfare and nonemergency health care services, including prenatal care to about 70,000 illegal immigrant women.
Supervisor Mike Antonovich, an outspoken opponent of the county providing services to illegal immigrants, had asked for a report within a week on what steps the county was taking to conform with Wilson’s directive.
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