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Hunger Legislation Tracker

Anti-Hunger Bills (2023):

SB 600 (Menjivar)

This bill will increase benefit adequacy by raising the CalFresh minimum allotment from $23 a month to $50 a month.

Sponsor(s): California Association of Food Banks, Nourish California, GRACE / End Child Poverty CA, Hunger Action Los Angeles

Position: Sponsor

Status: Bill parked in Assembly Committee on Human Services, partially achieved in State budget

Bill Text | Factsheet

SB 348 (Skinner)

This bill will strengthen California’s first-in-the-nation School Meals for All legislation and fight childhood hunger during summer.

Sponsor(s): American Heart Association, California Association of Food Banks, GRACE/End Child Poverty CA, TomKat Ranch

Position: Sponsor

Status: Signed by the Governor

Bill Text | Factsheet

AB 1178 (L. Rivas)

This bill allows summer meal sites to offer meals to parents and caregivers, giving them the opportunity to eat a shared meal with their children.

Sponsor(s): California Association of Food Banks, Nourish California

Position: Sponsor

Status: Held in Sen. Approps

Bill Text | Factsheet

AB 712 (W. Carrillo)

This bill allows CalFresh participants to purchase hot and prepared food with their EBT card.

Sponsor(s): California Association of Food Banks, GRACE/End Child Poverty CA

Position: Sponsor

Status: Signed by the Governor

Bill Text | Factsheet

SB 245 (Hurtado) / AB 311 (Santiago)

Food 4 All: This bill will provide state-funded nutrition benefits to all Californians ineligible for CalFresh solely due to their immigration status.

Sponsor(s): Nourish California, California Immigrant Policy Center

Position: Support

Status: SB 245 – parked in Asm. Human Services | AB 311 – parked in Sen. Human Services

SB 245 Bill Text / Factsheet | AB 311 Bill Text / Factsheet

AB 605 (Arambula)

This bill will expand the Fruit and Vegetable EBT Pilot to boost benefits for more CalFresh households in more regions of the state.

Sponsor(s): SPUR, Nourish California

Position: Support

Status: Held in Asm. Approps.

Bill Text | Factsheet

AB 679 (Wicks)

Food with Care: This bill will bring equity to childcare nutrition programs by eliminating the supplemental State Meal Reimbursement rate gap for feeding young children in family childcare settings.

Sponsor(s): Nourish California, CACFP Roundtable

Position: Support

Status: Held in Asm. Approps.

Bill Text | Factsheet

Anti-Poverty Bills (2023):

AB 870 (Arambula)

This bill builds off the success of AB 1326 by requiring a workgroup between higher education liaisons, county staff, and other stakeholders to meet regularly to discuss how to improve the experiences and increase public benefits enrollment among the college student population. 

Sponsor(s): California Association of Food Banks

Position: Sponsor

Status: Held in Asm. Approps.

Bill Text | Factsheet

AB 310 (Arambula)

This bill reimagines CalWORKs to ensure that the program puts families first and undoes the harm from racist and sexist federal and state law. 

Sponsor(s): GRACE Inc., Western Center on Law and Poverty, Parent Voices, Coalition of California Welfare Rights Organizations, John Burton Advocates for Youth

Position: Support

Status: Parked in Sen. Human Services

Bill Text | Factsheet

AB 94 (Davies)

This bill would prohibit the county welfare department to use blocked numbers to call applicants and beneficiaries of public social services unless they want to receive blocked calls.

Sponsor(s): Western Center on Law and Poverty and Coalition of California Welfare Rights Organization

Position: Support

Status: Held in Asm. Approps.

Bill Text

AB 1498 (Gipson)

This bill will ensure that individuals eligible for the CalEITC get at least a $300 credit.

Sponsor(s): CalEITC Coalition

Position: Support

Status: Held in Asm. Approps.

Bill Text | Factsheet

AB 274 (Bryan)

This bill will exempt any grant, award, scholarship, or fellowship benefit received by students from consideration as income for purposes of determining public benefits eligibility and benefit amounts.

Sponsor(s): CCWRO

Position: Support

Status: Pending floor consideration, ordered to inactive file

Bill Text | Factsheet

SB 260 (Menjivar)

This bill would support menstrual equity by adding $20 in CalWORKS per month in aid for each menstruating recipient to purchase menstrual products.

Sponsor(s): CA High School Democrats, California Generation Ratify, Alliance for Girls, The Pad Project, Access Reproductive Justice, IGNITE National, PERIOD., URGE, Sisters on the Streets, Days for Girls, Girls Learn International, The Women’s Building, Alliance for Period Supplies

Position: Support

Status: Held in Asm. Approps

Bill Text | Factsheet

SB 59 (Skinner)

This bill will ensure that all state-owned buildings and those administering state services provide free menstrual products in restrooms.

Sponsor(s): PERIOD., IGNITE National

Position: Support

Status: 2-year bill

Bill Text | Factsheet

SB 242 (Skinner)

This bill will bolster HOPE Accounts law, ensuring that HOPE accounts are not considered income and thus would not affect the ability of low-income youth to receive other public benefit programs.

Sponsor(s): GRACE / End Child Poverty

Position: Support

Status: Asm. Human Services

Bill Text | Factsheet

*This page was last updated on October 8, 2023

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