The department shall ensure that performance outcomes are monitored at the state and county levels in order to do all of the following:
(a) Identify the extent to which the state and counties achieve the goals of Public Law 104-193.
(b) Identify the extent to which unanticipated negative outcomes do or do not occur.
(c) Meet the requirements of federal law.
(d) Assist counties in tracking the effect of CalWORKs program implementation on aided families and on local communities.
(e) Assist counties, the Legislature, and state agencies in determining what adjustments are required in the program.
(Added by Stats. 1997, Ch. 270, Sec. 33. Effective August 11, 1997. Operative January 1, 1998, by Sec. 183 of Ch. 270.)