AB 6 (Fuentes) CalWORKS and CalFresh Program: Simplifies reporting rules, adopting those used in 49 other states, and ends CA's costly fingerprint system for CalFresh (SNAP). Streamlines CalFresh by moving to less frequent semi-annual reporting and implementing a "heat and eat" initiative to increase benefits and reduce paperwork.
Sponsor: California Food Policy Advocates
Status: Signed into law
AB 69 (Beall) CalFresh Senior Nutrition: Creates a pilot project to test streamlined strategies to connect social security recipients over the age of 65 to CalFresh.
Sponsor: California Food Policy Advocates
Status: Signed into law
AB 70 (Monning) Community transformation grant bill: Requires California's Health and Human Services Agency to direct the appropriate departments within the agency to apply for federal community transformation grants and to make information available about those and other grants available under the ACA to local government agencies, local public health departments, school districts, state and local nonprofit organizations and Indian tribes.
Status: Held in Assembly Health
AB 405 (Solorio) Public Postsecondary education: Joint Use facilities: Expands the State Allocation Board's funding of joint-use projects on kindergarten to grade 12 school sites to include community college campuses.
Status: Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee
AB 441 (Monning) Building Healthy Communities: Land-use and Transportation Decisions: Includes health and equity criteria in the guidelines that the state uses when advising local governments on land use and transportation planning and development (Caltrans). Ensures that city, county, and regional governments consider the health implications of planning and development decisions.
Sponsor: California Pan-Ethnic Health Network
Status: Held in Assembly Appropriations Committee
AB 516 (V. Manual Peréz) Safe Routes to Schools: Requires the state to consider as part of its criteria for awarding local grants for construction of bicycle and pedestrian safety and traffic calming projects as part of its "Safe Routes to Schools" initiative, the degree of specified public participation and the benefit to disadvantaged communities.
Sponsor: PolicyLink, California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc.
Status: Signed into law
AB 581 (Perez) California Healthy Food Financing Initiative (HFFI): Establishes the Healthy Food Financing Initiative Fund for the purpose of expanding access to healthy foods in underserved communities throughout California.
Sponsor: California Center for Public Health Advocacy
Status: Signed into law
AB 669 (Monning) Statewide Soda Tax: Levies a penny-per-ounce tax on sugar-sweetened beverages and raises $1.7 billion to fund childhood obesity prevention programs and create positive impacts on children's health in the community.
Sponsor: California Center for Public Health Advocacy
Status: Stalled in Assembly Revenue and Taxation
AB 685 (Eng) Human Right to Water: Establishes the right of every Californian to have access to clean water for basic human needs.
Sponsor: California Center for Public Health Advocacy
Status: Held in Senate Appropriations
AB 727 (Mitchell) CA state healthy food procurement policy: Requires that food purchased for consumption or sale on state property (e.g., vending machines, institutions, cafeterias, and concessioner contracts) meet minimum nutritional standards and sustainable purchasing practices.Encourages local purchasing and investment in California's local food system.
Sponsor: California Pan-Ethnic Health Network
Status: Held in Senate Appropriations
AB 839 (Brownley) Putting Breakfast First: Requires school boards whose districts have no breakfast program or have low participation to correct those deficiencies or to vote in open meeting, upon fact-based reasons, not to start a program or not to adopt a better meal service (such as classroom breakfast, etc.)
Sponsor: California Food Policy Advocates, Junior League of CA
Status: Held in Senate Appropriations
AB 922 (Monning) Office of Consumer Assistance: Establishes the Office of Health Consumer Assistance to provide outreach and education about health care coverage to California consumers. Authorizes the office to contract with community organizations to provide consumer assistance services and requires specified state agencies to report to the office regarding consumer complaints about health care coverage.
Sponsor: Western Center on Law and Poverty, Health Access
Status: Signed into law
AB 1100 (Hernandez) Marketing Food to Children: Establishes nutrition standards for meals marketed to children accompanied by toys or other incentive items.
Sponsor: California Center for Public Health Advocacy
Status: Spot bill; Stalled in Assembly