Bill Text: CA AB1663 | 2019-2020 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: California State Library: Lunch at the Library Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2020-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1663 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB1663-Introduced.html
Bill Title: California State Library: Lunch at the Library Program.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Failed) 2020-02-03 - From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56. [AB1663 Detail]
Download: California-2019-AB1663-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2019–2020 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill | No. 1663 |
Introduced by Assembly Member Luz Rivas |
February 22, 2019 |
An act to add Article 5 (commencing with Section 18035) to Chapter 1.5 of Part 11 of Division 1 of Title 1 of the Education Code, relating to libraries, and making an appropriation therefor.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 1663, as introduced, Luz Rivas.
District libraries: summer meals program.
Existing law authorizes a library district to be organized and authorizes the library district to establish, equip, and maintain a public library for the dissemination of knowledge of the arts, sciences, and general literature. Existing law provides that a library may include incorporated or unincorporated territory or both in any one or more counties, as provided. Existing law establishes in the State Department of Education a division known as the California State Library.
This bill would require the department to develop a grant program to distribute funds to a library district, for purposes of operating a summer meal program for students who reside in a low-income community, as defined. The bill would appropriate $1,000,000 from the General Fund to the department for these purposes.
Digest Key
Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: YES Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Article 5 (commencing with Section 18035) is added to Chapter 1.5 of Part 11 of Division 1 of Title 1 of the Education Code, to read:Article 5. Student Summer Meal Program
18035.
(a) The department shall develop a grant program to distribute funds, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to a library district, formed pursuant to Chapter 8 (commencing with Section 19400), for purposes of establishing a summer meal program.(b) A library district operating a summer meal program described in subdivision (a) shall provide students who reside in a low-income community, as defined in paragraph (2) of subdivision (d) of Section 39713 of the Health and Safety Code, with meals during the summer months.