Bill Text: CA AB2865 | 2021-2022 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Assembly Bill 2865 (Prior Session Legislation)

Introduced

Bill Title: CalFresh.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2022-02-19 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 21. [AB2865 Detail]

Download: California-2021-AB2865-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2021–2022 REGULAR SESSION

Assembly Bill

No. 2865

Introduced by Assembly Member Lee

February 18, 2022

An act to amend Section 18900 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to CalFresh.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2865, as introduced, Lee. CalFresh.

Existing federal law provides for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), known in California as CalFresh, formerly the Food Stamp Program, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county. Existing law states that the purpose of the CalFresh program is to establish a statewide program to enable specified persons to receive benefits under SNAP.

This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to that provision stating the purpose of CalFresh.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 18900 of the Welfare and Institutions Code is amended to read:

18900.

Finding that hunger, undernutrition, and malnutrition are present and continuing problems faced by low-income California households, and further finding that the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (Chapter 51 (commencing with Section ~~2011), Title 7,~~ 2011) of Title 7 of the United States Code) offers significant health-vital benefits, the purpose of this chapter is to establish a statewide program to enable recipients of aid under Part 3 (commencing with Section 11000) or Part 5 (commencing with Section 17000) ~~of this division~~ and other low-income households to receive benefits under the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.