Bill Text: CA AB2033 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced
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Bill Title: Public postsecondary education: electronic benefits transfer cards: basic needs services and resources.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Enrolled) 2024-08-29 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.). [AB2033 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2033-Introduced.html
Bill Title: Public postsecondary education: electronic benefits transfer cards: basic needs services and resources.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 2-0)
Status: (Enrolled) 2024-08-29 - Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0.). [AB2033 Detail]
Download: California-2023-AB2033-Introduced.html
CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2033
Introduced by Assembly Member Reyes |
February 01, 2024 |
An act to add Section 66027.2 to the Education Code, relating to community colleges.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2033, as introduced, Reyes.
Community colleges: electronic benefits transfer cards.
Existing law provides for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), administered in California as CalFresh, under which each county distributes nutrition assistance benefits provided by the federal government to eligible households for the purchase of certain eligible foods at approved retail food stores. Existing law provides for the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, under which each county provides cash assistance and other benefits to qualified low-income families. Existing law, administered by the State Department of Social Services, provides for the establishment of a statewide electronic benefits transfer (EBT) system for the purpose of providing financial and food assistance benefits, and authorizes a county to deliver CalFresh and CalWORKs benefits through the use of the EBT system.
Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges as one of the segments of postsecondary education in the state. Existing law requires each campus of the California Community Colleges to provide, as a part of campus orientation, educational information to all incoming students about certain public benefit programs, including, among others, CalFresh and the student eligibility requirements for CalFresh.
This bill would require, on or before September 1, 2025, at least one convenience or grocery store located on each campus of the California Community Colleges to accept the use of EBT cards, as specified. To the extent that the bill would impose new duties on community college districts, it would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution
requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.