Letters of supports needed to help advance AB 842 out of committee. AB 842 (Limón) is a bill sponsored by California Food Policy Advocates that would increase access to healthy meals for low-income children in preschool and child care. The bill would more adequately compensate child care providers for serving healthy meals to low-income children by authorizing all family child care home providers and child care centers to participate in California’s state meal program, a program currently only available to public schools which supplements the federal reimbursement for every breakfast and lunch served to eligible, low-income children. The bill also guarantees that our youngest public school students have access to a nutritious, free or low-cost meal by expanding California’s longstanding school meal mandate to child care and development programs operated by public schools. Learn more about the bill by visiting www.cfpa.net/ab842
AB 842 is scheduled to be heard by the Assembly Education Committee on March 27th in Sacramento. Help demonstrate support for this important piece of legislation by sending in a letter of support today.
Questions? Contact Melissa Cannon at 510.433.1122 ext 102, or visit https://nourishca.org/ab842/
