CCLHDN & Health Policy

SB-1192 - Children’s meals.

Passed.
SB 1192 requires a restaurant, which serves a meal primarily targeted and marketed to children, to make the default drink option served in bundled meals a healthful beverage - water, sparkling water, flavored water with no added sweeteners, or milk.

SB-900 - Electronic benefits transfer system: CalFresh supplemental benefits.

Failed.
Proposed to enable the CalFresh EBT system to integrate supplemental nutrition benefits to incentivize California-grown produce purchases.

AB-1871 Charter schools: free and reduced-price meals.

Passed.
California charter schools required to provide needy students with one nutritionally adequate free or reduced price meal each day.

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