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Hunger Legislation Tracker

For CAFB’s full 2024 Policy Agenda and state budget priorities, go to our Policy Page.

Anti-Hunger Bills (2024):

AB 2150 (Arambula) – Public Benefits & Higher Education County Liaisons

This bill will require the California Department of Social Services to develop trainings and convene county human services agency staff liaisons to improve enrollment in public benefits programs for college students.

Sponsor(s): CAFB

Position: Support

Status: Held in Assembly Committee on Appropriations (Failed to pass two-year session).

Bill Text | Factsheet

AB 2595 (L. Rivas) – Summer Caregiver Meals Pilot

This bill will pilot a program allowing summer meal sites located at public libraries to offer a meal to caregivers accompanying a child.

Sponsor(s): CAFB

Position: Support

Status: Held in Senate Committee on Appropriations (Failed to pass two-year session).

Bill Text | Factsheet

AB 1961 (Wicks) – End Hunger in California Act

This bill would establish a task force that, for the first time in state history, will develop a strategic master plan to end hunger in CA which would include comprehensive recommendations to prevent hunger & ensure access to healthy, culturally relevant food for all.

Sponsor(s): United Food and Commercial Workers, California Food and Farming Network, GRACE / End Child Poverty CA, CAFB

Position: Support

Status: Vetoed by the Governor.

Bill Text | Factsheet

AB 1968 (Jackson) – SSI & CalFresh

This bill would require county eligibility workers to regularly contact qualifying individuals who meet the eligibility requirements of the SSI/SSP to notify them of their estimated potential benefit for CalFresh, including through notice by mail. 

Sponsor(s): TBD

Position: Support

Status: Held in Assembly Committee on Appropriations (Failed to pass two-year session).

Bill Text | Factsheet

AB 1975 (Bonta) – Medically Supportive Food and Nutrition

This bill will transition medically supportive food and nutrition (MSF&N) interventions from optional services in healthcare through CalAIM to permanent Medi-Cal benefits. 

Sponsor(s): Food as Medicine Collaborative, SPUR

Position: Support

Status: Vetoed by the Governor.

Bill Text | Factsheet

AB 2033 (Reyes) – EBT on College Campuses

This bill would require at least one convenience or grocery store located on each campus of the California Community Colleges to accept the use of EBT cards.

Sponsor(s): California Community Colleges Student Senate, Faculty Association of Community Colleges

Position: Support

Status: Approved by the Governor.

Bill Text | Factsheet

AB 2311 (Bennett) – Edible Food Recovery Grants

This bill would build on existing CalRecycle grant programs to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by making the transportation of recovered edible food and the purchase or subscription to technology or software that improves the efficiency and tracking of edible food recovery eligible for grant funding.

Sponsor(s): Author sponsored.

Position: Support

Status: Held in Senate Committee on Appropriations (Failed to pass two-year session).

Bill Text | Factsheet

SB 245 (Hurtado) / AB 311 (Santiago) – Food For All

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

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

Position: Support

Status: SB 245: Held in Assembly Committee on Appropriations (Failed to pass two-year session). AB 311: Held in Senate Committee on Appropriations (Failed to pass two-year session).

SB 245 Bill Text | Factsheet

AB 311 Bill Text | Factsheet

SB 950 (Skinner) – Healthy Recovery and Reentry

This bill, among other things, would require the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to work with the federal government and other state departments to assist eligible incarcerated people to enroll in Medicaid/Medi-Cal, SSI, CalFresh and other programs as appropriate prior to the
person’s release into the community.

Sponsor(s): Amity Foundation

Position: Support

Status: Gutted and amended to an unrelated bill.

Bill Text | Factsheet

SB 1254 (Becker) – The F.R.E.S.H. Act

This bill would require the State Department of Social Services to partner with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and county jails to enroll eligible CalFresh applicants to ensure they can begin receiving benefits before reentry into the community from the state prison or county jail.

Sponsor(s): Legal Services for Prisoners with Children-All of Us or None, Nourish California

Position: Support

Status: Approved by the Governor

Bill Text | Factsheet

Anti-Poverty Bills (2024):

AB 2446 (Ortega) – Medi-Cal Coverage for Diapers

This bill would ensure that medically necessary diapers are provided through Medi-Cal as mandated by the federal Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic and Treatment (EPSDT) program.

Sponsor(s): CAFB, GRACE/End Child Poverty

Position: Support

Status: Vetoed by the Governor

Bill Text | Factsheet

AB 2241 (Alvarez) – Simplifying Public Benefits Reporting

This bill would require counties to accept a customer’s changes affecting their public social services through email.

Sponsor(s): Coalition of California Welfare Rights Organizations, Western Center on Law & Poverty

Position: Support

Status: Held in Assembly Committee on Appropriations (Failed to pass two-year session).

Bill Text | Factsheet

AB 2956 (Boerner) – Protecting Medi-Cal Coverage for Families

This bill would allow people to keep Medi-Cal coverage for a full 12 months, even if their income
changes during that period and would direct CA to seek approval to make federal Medi-Cal flexibilities permanent.

Sponsor(s): The Children’s Partnership, Latino Coalition for a Healthy California, Western Center on Law & Poverty

Position: Support

Status: Held in Assembly Committee on Appropriations (Failed to pass two-year session).

Bill Text | Factsheet

SB 953 (Menjivar) – Period Equity Now

This bill would add menstrual products to the schedule of covered benefits under Medi-Cal. It would require the Department of Health Care Services to seek federal waivers to implement coverage for menstrual products under Medi-Cal.

Sponsor(s): Alliance for Period Supplies, IGNITE, What We All Deserve (WWAD)

Position: Support

Status: Held in Senate Committee on Appropriations (Failed to pass two-year session).

Bill Text | Factsheet

SB 1289 (Roth)

This bill would require DHCS, in concert with CDSS to create minimum standards for call centers funded with state funds.

Sponsor(s): Coalition of California Welfare Rights Organizations, Western Center on Law & Poverty

Position: Support

Status: Approved by the Governor

Bill Text | Factsheet

*This page was last updated on September 30, 2024

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