Governor Brown Acts to Improve Food Security and Support for Vulnerable Californians

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SACRAMENTO – Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. announced today that he has signed a package of bills to improve food security and support for lower-income seniors and working families.

• AB 6 by Assemblymember Felipe Fuentes (D-Los Angeles) – CalWORKs and CalFresh.
• AB 69 by Assemblymember Jim Beall (D-San Jose) – Senior nutrition benefits.
• AB 152 by Assemblymember Felipe Fuentes (D-Los Angeles) – Income tax credits for voluntary donations to food ban

ks and State Emergency Food Assistance Program.
• AB 402 by Assemblymember Nancy Skinner (D-Berkeley) – CalFresh program: School Lunch Program information.
• AB 581 by Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles) – California Healthy Food Financing Initiative.
• AB 959 by Assemblymember Brian Jones (R-La Mesa) – CalWORKs and CalFresh: reporting.
• SB 43 by Senator Carol Liu (D-Pasadena) – CalFresh Employment and Training program.

For full text of the bills, visit: http://leginfo.ca.gov/bilinfo.html.

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