California 2017-2018 Regular Session Status: Enacted 1 D cosponsors

SB 250 — Pupil meals: Child Hunger Prevention and Fair Treatment Act of 2017.

Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 726, Statutes of 2017.

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  1. ✓
    Introduced
  2. ✓
    In Committee
  3. ✓
    Passed Senate
  4. ✓
    Passed Assembly
  5. ✓
    To Executive
  6. 6
    Enacted

This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 07, 2017. Enacted.

Prognosis

Likely to advance 82% · moderate confidence

Where this bill stands today.

Odds of enactment

High

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  • Enacted

    Current position in the legislative process.

  • 12 sponsors

    1 primary, 11 co-sponsors signed on.

  • Single-party support

    Sponsorship is currently within one party (1 D).

  • Cleared a recorded vote

    Passed 8 recorded votes so far.

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Summary

Existing law requires each school district or county superintendent of schools maintaining kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to provide one nutritionally adequate free or reduced-price meal for each needy pupil during each schoolday, except as specified. Existing law authorizes a school district or county office of education to use funds made available through any applicable federal or state program or to use its own funds to provide the required meals. This bill would enact the Child Hunger Prevention and Fair Treatment Act of 2017. The act would require certain local educational agencies, as defined, that provide school meals through the federal National School Lunch Program or the federal School Breakfast Program to ensure that a pupil whose parent or guardian has unpaid school meal fees is not shamed, treated differently, or served a meal that differs from what a pupil whose parent or guardian does not have unpaid school meal fees would receive under that local educational agency's policy. The act would prohibit school personnel and volunteers at a local educational agency that serves nutritionally adequate meals to pupils during the instructional day from allowing any disciplinary action that is taken against a pupil to result in the denial or delay of a nutritionally adequate meal to that pupil. The act would require a local educational agency to notify a parent or guardian of the negative balance of a pupil's school meal account no later than 10 days after the pupil's school meal account has reached a negative balance. The act would require a local educational agency, before sending this notification to the parent or guardian, to exhaust all options and methods to directly certify the pupil for free or reduced-price meals. The act would require a local educational agency to reimburse school meal fees paid by a pupil's parent or guardian when fees were paid or unpaid fees debt accrued when a pupil would have been determined to be eligible for free or reduced-price school meals. To the extent that these provisions would place additional requirements on local educational agencies, the bill 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.

Bill Text

Action History

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 726, Statutes of 2017.

  2. Approved by the Governor.

  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2884.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

  5. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  6. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 3264.) Ordered to the Senate.

  7. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  8. Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

  9. From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (September 1).

  10. July 19 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  11. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  12. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 21).

  13. Referred to Com. on ED.

  14. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  15. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1316.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  16. Published May 26 at 10 a.m.

  17. Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.

  18. From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1180.) (May 25).

  19. Set for hearing May 25.

  20. April 3 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  21. Set for hearing April 3.

  22. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  23. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 370.) (March 15).

  24. Set for hearing March 15.

  25. Referred to Com. on ED.

  26. Read first time.

  27. From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 10.

  28. Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Sponsors

  • Bradford · Cosponsor
  • Chu · Cosponsor
  • Galgiani · Cosponsor
  • Gloria · Cosponsor
  • Hertzberg · Primary
  • Jones-Sawyer · Cosponsor
  • McCarty · Cosponsor
  • Vidak · Cosponsor
  • Voepel · Cosponsor
  • Wilk · Cosponsor
  • Susan Rubio · Cosponsor
  • Cristina Garcia · Cosponsor

Sponsorship breakdown

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1 sponsors · 11 co-sponsors · 110 not signed on

Sponsors (1)

  • Hertzberg

Co-sponsors (11)

Not signed on (110)

110 members have not signed on to this bill.

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Votes

Unfinished Business SB250 Hertzberg et al. Concurrence

Passed 40 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 35000
Democratic 5000
Total 40000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Anderson — Yea
Bates — Yea
Beall — Yea
Hertzberg — Yea
Monning — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Vidak — Yea
Dodd — Yea
Portantino — Yea
Atkins — Yea
De León — Yea
Glazer — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
Allen — Yea
Cannella — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Hill — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Lara — Yea
Mendoza — Yea
Moorlach — Yea
Roth — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Wilk — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Leyva — Yea
Morrell — Yea
Newman — Yea
Pan — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Fuller — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
McGuire, Mike Democratic Yea
Nguyen, Stephanie Democratic Yea
Stern, Henry I. Democratic Yea
Wiener, Scott D. Democratic Yea

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SB 250 Hertzberg Senate Third Reading By MCCARTY

Passed 77 Yea · 0 Nay · 2 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 56002
Democratic 15000
Republican 6000
Total 77002
% of votes cast 97%0%0%3%
How each member voted (79)
Member Party Vote
Acosta — Yea
Bigelow — Yea
Bloom — Yea
Brough — Yea
Kiley — Yea
Low — Yea
Mathis — Yea
Mullin — Yea
Quirk — Yea
Santiago — Yea
Weber — Yea
Eggman — Yea
Chu — Yea
Chau — Yea
Gloria — Yea
Mayes — Yea
Gonzalez Fletcher — Yea
Medina — Yea
Rodriguez — Yea
Thurmond — Yea
Ting — Yea
Burke — Yea
Fong — Yea
Salas — Yea
Frazier — Yea
Gray — Yea
Bocanegra — Yea
Rubio — Yea
Harper — Yea
Holden — Yea
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Levine — Yea
Maienschein — Yea
McCarty — Yea
Melendez — Yea
Nazarian — Not Voting
O'Donnell — Yea
Obernolte — Yea
Baker — Yea
Chiu — Yea
Chávez — Yea
Cooley — Yea
Cooper — Yea
Rendon — Yea
Ridley-Thomas — Yea
Steinorth — Yea
Voepel — Yea
Waldron — Yea
Wood — Yea
Cunningham — Yea
Dababneh — Yea
Daly — Yea
Friedman — Yea
Cristina Garcia — Yea
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Jim Patterson — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Travis Allen — Not Voting
Aguiar-Curry, Cecilia M. Democratic Yea
Arambula, Joaquin Democratic Yea
Berman, Marc Democratic Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Caballero, Anna M. Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Cervantes, Sabrina Democratic Yea
Gipson, Mike A. Democratic Yea
Grayson, Timothy S. Democratic Yea
Irwin, Jacqui Democratic Yea
Kalra, Ash Democratic Yea
Limón, Monique Democratic Yea
Muratsuchi, Al Democratic Yea
Quirk-Silva, Sharon Democratic Yea
Reyes, Eloise Gómez Democratic Yea
Chen, Phillip Republican Yea
Choi, Steven S. Republican Yea
Dahle, Megan Republican Yea
Flora, Heath Republican Yea
Gallagher, James Republican Yea
Lackey, Tom Republican Yea

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Do pass as amended.

Passed 16 Yea · 0 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Democratic 3000
Unaffiliated 12001
Republican 1000
Total 16001
% of votes cast 94%0%0%6%
How each member voted (17)
Member Party Vote
Eggman — Yea
Chau — Yea
Bigelow — Yea
Fong — Yea
Gonzalez Fletcher — Yea
Friedman — Yea
Jones-Sawyer — Yea
Bocanegra — Yea
Gray — Not Voting
Obernolte — Yea
Bloom — Yea
Brough — Yea
Eduardo Garcia — Yea
Bonta, Mia Democratic Yea
Calderon, Lisa Democratic Yea
Reyes, Eloise Gómez Democratic Yea
Gallagher, James Republican Yea

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3rd Reading

Passed 39 Yea · 0 Nay · 1 Other
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 34001
Democratic 5000
Total 39001
% of votes cast 98%0%0%3%
How each member voted (40)
Member Party Vote
Beall — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Hertzberg — Yea
Hill — Yea
Leyva — Yea
Monning — Yea
Newman — Yea
Skinner — Yea
Dodd — Yea
Cannella — Yea
Portantino — Not Voting
Atkins — Yea
Galgiani — Yea
Mitchell — Yea
Allen — Yea
De León — Yea
Hernandez — Yea
Hueso — Yea
Anderson — Yea
Bates — Yea
Lara — Yea
Mendoza — Yea
Moorlach — Yea
Morrell — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Pan — Yea
Roth — Yea
Vidak — Yea
Wieckowski — Yea
Wilk — Yea
Fuller — Yea
Glazer — Yea
Beth Gaines — Yea
Bill Berryhill — Yea
Mark Stone — Yea
Jackson, Corey A. Democratic Yea
McGuire, Mike Democratic Yea
Nguyen, Stephanie Democratic Yea
Stern, Henry I. Democratic Yea
Wiener, Scott D. Democratic Yea

Official roll call →

Do pass as amended

Passed 7 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 6000
Democratic 1000
Total 7000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
Bates — Yea
Hill — Yea
Lara — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Beall — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Wiener, Scott D. Democratic Yea

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Placed on suspense file

Passed 7 Yea · 0 Nay
Party YeaNayPresentNot Voting
Unaffiliated 6000
Democratic 1000
Total 7000
% of votes cast 100%0%0%0%
How each member voted (7)
Member Party Vote
Hill — Yea
Lara — Yea
Nielsen — Yea
Bates — Yea
Beall — Yea
Bradford — Yea
Wiener, Scott D. Democratic Yea

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Subjects

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Frequently asked questions

What does SB 250 do?
Existing law requires each school district or county superintendent of schools maintaining kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to provide one nutritionally adequate free or reduced-price meal for each needy pupil during each schoolday, except as specified. Existing law authorizes a school district or county office of education to use funds made available through any applicable federal or state program or to use its own funds to provide the required meals. This bill would enact the Child Hunger Prevention and Fair Treatment Act of 2017. The act would require certain local educational agencies, as defined, that provide school meals through the federal National School Lunch Program or the federal School Breakfast Program to ensure that a pupil whose parent or guardian has unpaid school meal fees is not shamed, treated differently, or served a meal that differs from what a pupil whose parent or guardian does not have unpaid school meal fees would receive under that local educational agency's policy. The act would prohibit school personnel and volunteers at a local educational agency that serves nutritionally adequate meals to pupils during the instructional day from allowing any disciplinary action that is taken against a pupil to result in the denial or delay of a nutritionally adequate meal to that pupil. The act would require a local educational agency to notify a parent or guardian of the negative balance of a pupil's school meal account no later than 10 days after the pupil's school meal account has reached a negative balance. The act would require a local educational agency, before sending this notification to the parent or guardian, to exhaust all options and methods to directly certify the pupil for free or reduced-price meals. The act would require a local educational agency to reimburse school meal fees paid by a pupil's parent or guardian when fees were paid or unpaid fees debt accrued when a pupil would have been determined to be eligible for free or reduced-price school meals. To the extent that these provisions would place additional requirements on local educational agencies, the bill 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.
Who sponsors SB 250?
SB 250 is sponsored by Bradford, Chu, Galgiani, Gloria, Hertzberg, Jones-Sawyer, McCarty, Vidak, Voepel, Wilk, Rubio, Susan (Democratic), and Cristina Garcia.
What is the current status of SB 250?
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 07, 2017. Enacted.
Where can I track SB 250?
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