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.
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: Referred to Asm. Committee on Human Services, Set for hearing on April 18
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: Referred to Asm. Committee on Human Services
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
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: Referred to Committee on Human Services, Set for hearing on April 18
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
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: Re-referred to Committee on Appropriations, Set for Hearing on April 10
