California Department of Social Services - State Hearings Division
Notes from the Training Bureau - October 9, 2001

Reference: AB 429

AB 1111 had established time-limited CAPI with a sunset date of September 30, 2000 for those legal non-citizens who did not qualify for regular CAPI. AB 2876 extended time-limited CAPI until September 30, 2001. AB 429 now eliminates any sunset date for what was previously called time-limited CAPI. This program is now called "extended CAPI".

If a legal non-citizen enters the United States on or after August 22, 1996 and does not qualify for regular CAPI because he/she does not have a dead, disabled or abusive sponsor, the county will evaluate the CAPI applicant for "extended CAPI". If the non-citizen does not qualify for regular CAPI, but does qualify for "extended CAPI" and is sponsored, sponsor deeming will apply. Under AB 429, effective August 1, 2001, CAPI applicants and recipients are subject to 10-year sponsor deeming regardless of whether the sponsor signed the old affidavit of support (I-134) or the new affidavit of support (I-864).