AB 441 (Monning) Building Healthy Communities: Land Use and Transportation Decisions: Requires the inclusion of health and equity criteria in the documents that the state uses to provide guidance on land use and transportation planning and development. The bill would ensure that city, county, and regional governments consider the health implications of planning and development decisions.
Sponsor: California Pan-Ethnic Health Network
Status: Passed Assembly, Referred to Senate Committee on Transportation and Housing
AB 1594 (Eng) Improving Charter School Nutrition: Proposes to extend the needy-student meal mandate to California charter schools, ensuring that all low-income California students whether attending a traditional public school or public charter school, have access to these essential nutrition benefits.
Sponsor: California Food Policy Advocates
Status: Introduced
AB 1560 (Fuentes) Food For Health: Aligning Med-Cal and Nutrition Assistance: Ensures that Medi-Cal recipients can also receive CalFresh, and that children in their households will be certified for free school meals.
Sponsor: California Food Policy Advocates
Status: Referred to Assembly Committee on Human Services
AB 1636 (Monning) Health and Wellness Programs: Requires the Department of Managed Health Care, Department of Insurance, the California Health Benefit Exchange, and the State Department of Public Health, to review and evaluate health and wellness incentive and rewards programs offered by health care service and insurance plans. The committee must meet publicly before March 30, 2013.
Sponsor: Author
Status: Referred to Assembly Committee on Health
AB 1678 (Monning) Building Healthy School Environments: Curb Mobile Vending to Kids: Seeks to create healthy school environments, support academic achievement, and promote student wellness by restricting mobile food vending near school campuses before, during, and after the school day.
Sponsor: California Food Policy Advocates
Status: Referred to Assembly Committee on Health
AB 1781 (Brownley) Boost School Meal Participation: Lining Up to Remove Stigma: Ensures that a reimbursable school meal be made available at any service line that school food services operates, manages or from which school food services receives revenue, thereby decreasing stigma and creating an environment in which all students, particularly low-income students, are encouraged to participate in school meals.
Sponsor: California Food Policy Advocates
Status: Introduced
AB 1746 (Williams) Beverages in Schools: Restricts the sale of electrolyte replacement beverages in middle and high schools to specified times before and after school. Current law allows certain beverages to be sold in schools, including fruit and vegetable-based drinks, water, milk, and electrolyte replacement beverages if they meet nutritional requirements - this bill would repeal and replace that provisions.
Sponsor: California Medical Association
Status: Introduced
AB 1872 (Alejo) Improving Child Care Nutrition: Healthy Eating Starts Early: Requires that family day care homes comply with the Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP) meal pattern, a federal nutrition program that provides reimbursements to help cover the cost of meals and snacks. In addition, AB 1872 would oblige licensing authorities to inform all child care providers about how to participate in CACFP.
Sponsor: California Food Policy Advocates
Status: Introduced