Free or reduced-price school meals: direct certification.
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AB 1502 — Free or reduced-price school meals: direct certification.
Last action — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 91, Statutes of 2017.
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6Enacted
This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 17, 2017. Enacted.
Prognosis
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Enacted
Current position in the legislative process.
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1 sponsor
1 primary, 0 co-sponsors signed on.
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Cleared a recorded vote
Passed 5 recorded votes so far.
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Summary
Existing law requires the State Department of Education to create a computerized data matching system using existing databases from the State Department of Education and the State Department of Health Care Services to directly certify recipients of CalFresh, the CalWORKs program, and other programs authorized for direct certification for enrollment in the federal National School Lunch Program and the federal School Breakfast Program. Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to conduct the data match of local school records and return a list to the State Department of Education, including only the data fields submitted by the State Department of Education and an indicator of program eligibility. This bill would instead require the State Department of Health Care Services or the State Department of Education to conduct the data match of local school records to determine program eligibility. The bill would require each state agency involved in the data match process to amend any applicable existing agreements before the State Department of Education may conduct the data match. The bill would require, before a state agency provides the State Department of Education with data to conduct a data match, the State Department of Education and that state agency to execute a written agreement that outlines the use of the data in the data match process and incorporates privacy and confidentiality procedures consistent with all applicable state and federal law.
Bill Text
- Chaptered 07/21/17 - Chaptered Current pdf July 21, 2017
- Enrolled 07/06/17 - Enrolled pdf July 06, 2017
- Amended 03/28/17 - Amended Assembly pdf March 28, 2017
- Introduced 02/17/17 - Introduced pdf February 17, 2017
- AB1502 View text html
Action History
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Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 91, Statutes of 2017.
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Approved by the Governor.
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Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:40 p.m.
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In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
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Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 1845.).
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Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
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From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar.
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From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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Referred to Com. on ED.
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In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1395.)
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Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
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From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 26).
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From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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Re-referred to Com. on ED.
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From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended.
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Referred to Com. on ED.
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From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
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Read first time. To print.
Sponsors
- Thurmond · Primary
Sponsorship breakdown
Export CSV (upgrade) →1 sponsors · 0 co-sponsors · 121 not signed on
Sponsors (1)
- Thurmond
Co-sponsors (0)
None.
Not signed on (121)
121 members have not signed on to this bill.
Show all 121 →"Not signed on" means a member has not sponsored or co-sponsored this bill — it does not imply opposition. Members flagged Voted No have a recorded No vote on this bill.
Votes
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unaffiliated | 29 | 0 | 0 | 6 |
| Democratic | 4 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 33 | 0 | 0 | 7 |
| % of votes cast | 83% | 0% | 0% | 18% |
How each member voted (40)
| Member | Party | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Hill | — | Yea |
| Lara | — | Yea |
| Mendoza | — | Yea |
| Morrell | — | Not Voting |
| Nielsen | — | Not Voting |
| Cannella | — | Yea |
| Dodd | — | Yea |
| Galgiani | — | Yea |
| Allen | — | Not Voting |
| Hernandez | — | Not Voting |
| Hertzberg | — | Yea |
| Atkins | — | Yea |
| Hueso | — | Yea |
| Mitchell | — | Yea |
| Leyva | — | Not Voting |
| De León | — | Yea |
| Portantino | — | Yea |
| Monning | — | Yea |
| Moorlach | — | Yea |
| Newman | — | Yea |
| Anderson | — | Yea |
| Bates | — | Yea |
| Beall | — | Yea |
| Bradford | — | Yea |
| Pan | — | Yea |
| Roth | — | Yea |
| Skinner | — | Yea |
| Vidak | — | Yea |
| Wieckowski | — | Yea |
| Wilk | — | Yea |
| Fuller | — | Yea |
| Glazer | — | Not Voting |
| Beth Gaines | — | Yea |
| Bill Berryhill | — | Yea |
| Mark Stone | — | Yea |
| Jackson, Corey A. | Democratic | Not Voting |
| McGuire, Mike | Democratic | Yea |
| Nguyen, Stephanie | Democratic | Yea |
| Stern, Henry I. | Democratic | Yea |
| Wiener, Scott D. | Democratic | Yea |
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unaffiliated | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| % of votes cast | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
How each member voted (7)
| Member | Party | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Leyva | — | Yea |
| Vidak | — | Yea |
| Allen | — | Yea |
| Mendoza | — | Yea |
| Pan | — | Yea |
| Wilk | — | Yea |
| Galgiani | — | Yea |
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unaffiliated | 54 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Democratic | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Republican | 6 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 76 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| % of votes cast | 95% | 0% | 0% | 5% |
How each member voted (80)
| Member | Party | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Acosta | — | Yea |
| Baker | — | Yea |
| Bloom | — | Yea |
| Brough | — | Yea |
| Harper | — | Yea |
| Jones-Sawyer | — | Yea |
| Maienschein | — | Yea |
| Mathis | — | Yea |
| Nazarian | — | Yea |
| Rendon | — | Yea |
| Santiago | — | Yea |
| Steinorth | — | Yea |
| Voepel | — | Yea |
| Wood | — | Yea |
| Eggman | — | Yea |
| Cooper | — | Yea |
| Gonzalez Fletcher | — | Yea |
| Chau | — | Yea |
| Mayes | — | Yea |
| Medina | — | Yea |
| Rodriguez | — | Yea |
| Burke | — | Yea |
| Salas | — | Yea |
| Friedman | — | Yea |
| Gray | — | Yea |
| Gomez | — | Yea |
| Bocanegra | — | Yea |
| Holden | — | Yea |
| Rubio | — | Yea |
| Kiley | — | Yea |
| Levine | — | Yea |
| Low | — | Yea |
| McCarty | — | Yea |
| Melendez | — | Yea |
| Bigelow | — | Not Voting |
| Chiu | — | Yea |
| Chu | — | Yea |
| Chávez | — | Yea |
| Cooley | — | Yea |
| Mullin | — | Yea |
| O'Donnell | — | Yea |
| Obernolte | — | Yea |
| Quirk | — | Yea |
| Ridley-Thomas | — | Yea |
| Thurmond | — | Yea |
| Ting | — | Yea |
| Waldron | — | Yea |
| Weber | — | Yea |
| Cunningham | — | Yea |
| Dababneh | — | Yea |
| Daly | — | Yea |
| Frazier | — | Yea |
| Gloria | — | Yea |
| Cristina Garcia | — | Not Voting |
| Eduardo Garcia | — | 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 |
| Fong, Mike | 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 |
| Patterson, Joe | Republican | Not Voting |
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unaffiliated | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Democratic | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Republican | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Total | 16 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| % of votes cast | 94% | 0% | 0% | 6% |
How each member voted (17)
| Member | Party | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| Bigelow | — | Yea |
| Bloom | — | Yea |
| Brough | — | Yea |
| Chau | — | Yea |
| Gonzalez Fletcher | — | Yea |
| Gray | — | Yea |
| Bocanegra | — | Yea |
| Friedman | — | Yea |
| McCarty | — | Yea |
| Obernolte | — | Yea |
| Eggman | — | Yea |
| Eduardo Garcia | — | Yea |
| Bonta, Mia | Democratic | Yea |
| Fong, Mike | Democratic | Yea |
| Muratsuchi, Al | Democratic | Yea |
| Reyes, Eloise Gómez | Democratic | Yea |
| Gallagher, James | Republican | Not Voting |
| Party | Yea | Nay | Present | Not Voting |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Unaffiliated | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Total | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| % of votes cast | 100% | 0% | 0% | 0% |
How each member voted (7)
| Member | Party | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| O'Donnell | — | Yea |
| Chávez | — | Yea |
| Kiley | — | Yea |
| McCarty | — | Yea |
| Thurmond | — | Yea |
| Weber | — | Yea |
| Gloria | — | Yea |
Subjects
Frequently asked questions
- What does AB 1502 do?
- Existing law requires the State Department of Education to create a computerized data matching system using existing databases from the State Department of Education and the State Department of Health Care Services to directly certify recipients of CalFresh, the CalWORKs program, and other programs authorized for direct certification for enrollment in the federal National School Lunch Program and the federal School Breakfast Program. Existing law requires the State Department of Health Care Services to conduct the data match of local school records and return a list to the State Department of Education, including only the data fields submitted by the State Department of Education and an indicator of program eligibility. This bill would instead require the State Department of Health Care Services or the State Department of Education to conduct the data match of local school records to determine program eligibility. The bill would require each state agency involved in the data match process to amend any applicable existing agreements before the State Department of Education may conduct the data match. The bill would require, before a state agency provides the State Department of Education with data to conduct a data match, the State Department of Education and that state agency to execute a written agreement that outlines the use of the data in the data match process and incorporates privacy and confidentiality procedures consistent with all applicable state and federal law.
- Who sponsors AB 1502?
- AB 1502 is sponsored by Thurmond.
- What is the current status of AB 1502?
- This bill has been enacted into law. Introduced February 17, 2017. Enacted.
- Where can I track AB 1502?
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