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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.
赞助商： 中央财政局
位置： 支持
状态： Referred to Assembly Committee on Appropriations
This bill would convene the End Hunger in California Master Plan Task Force to develop whole of government, comprehensive recommendations to prevent hunger and ensure access to healthy, culturally relevant food for all.
赞助商： United Food and Commercial Workers, California Food and Farming Network, GRACE / End Child Poverty CA, CAFB
位置： 支持
状态： Referred to Assembly Committee on Agriculture (Hearing: April 24)
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.
赞助商： TBD
位置： 支持
状态： Referred to Assembly Committee on Appropriations (Hearing: April 24)
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.
赞助商： Food as Medicine Collaborative, SPUR
位置： 支持
状态： Referred to Assembly Committee on Appropriations
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.
赞助商： California Community Colleges Student Senate, Faculty Association of Community Colleges
位置： 支持
状态： Referred to Assembly Committee Human Services (Hearing: April 23).
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.
赞助商： Author sponsored.
位置： 支持
状态： Referred to Assembly Committee on Appropriations, In the Suspense File
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.
赞助商： Amity Foundation
位置： 支持
状态： Referred to Senate Committee on Appropriations (Hearing: April 29)
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.
赞助商： Legal Services for Prisoners with Children-All of Us or None, Nourish California
位置： 支持
状态： Referred to Senate Committee on Public Safety (Hearing: April 23)
This bill would add diapers to the schedule of covered benefits under Medi-Cal for infants and toddlers with certain conditions. It would require the Department of Health Care Services to seek federal waivers to implement coverage for diapers under Medi-Cal.
赞助商： CAFB, GRACE/End Child Poverty
位置： 支持
状态： Referred to Assembly Appropriations, In the Suspense File
AB 274 (Bryan) – Simplifying CalWORKs/CalFresh for College Students
This bill would exempt any grant, award, scholarship, loan, or fellowship benefit provided for educational purposes from consideration as income or resources for CalWORKs or CalFresh purposes.
赞助商： Coalition of California Welfare Rights Organizations, u*aspire, Western Center on Law & Poverty
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.
赞助商： The Children’s Partnership, Latino Coalition for a Healthy California, Western Center on Law & Poverty
位置： 支持
状态： Referred to Assembly Committee on Appropriations
A 2-year bill that would require free period products be offered in all women’s restrooms, all-gender restrooms, and in at least one men’s restroom in all state or state-leased buildings.
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.
赞助商： Alliance for Period Supplies, IGNITE, What We All Deserve (WWAD)
位置： 支持
状态： Referred to Senate Appropriations, In the Suspense File
