California Legislation, Regulations & Policy
CWA has a long history of advocating for children and families in California, through sponsoring and supporting legislation, budgetary requests, and simply educating our representatives in Sacramento about WIC and the benefits and support it provides to their constituents. WIC is the state’s largest nutrition and lactation public health workforce, an excellent resource for decision makers as they consider policy that will impact how the needs of local families are met. CWA works to make sure that California’s legislators are knowledgeable about WIC and have good access to WIC’s wealth of knowledge!
Bills that CWA sponsors, supports, or is monitoring are summarized below.
2023 Bill Monitor Report – Stay Tuned for Our 2024 Bill List!
AB-518 - Paid family leave: eligibility: care for designated persons
CWA Position: Support
SB-1016 - Latino and Indigenous Disparities Reduction Act
CWA Position: Support
AB-2090 - Office of Farm to Fork: food deserts: transportation
CWA Position: Watch
SB-949 - Superior court: lactation accommodation
CWA Position: Support
AB-1975 - Medi-Cal: medically supportive food and nutrition interventions
CWA Position: Support
AB-1965 - Public health: Office of Tribal Affairs
CWA Position: Support
SB-600 - California CalFresh Minimum Benefit Adequacy Act of 2023
CWA Position: Support
AB-311 - California Food Assistance Program: eligibility and benefits
CWA Position: Support
SB-245 - California Food Assistance Program: eligibility and benefits
CWA Position: Support
AB-2263 - The California Guaranteed Income Study and Funding Act
CWA Position: Support
SB-1090 - Unemployment insurance: disability and paid family leave: claim administration
CWA Proposed Position: Support
AB-2123 - Disability compensation: paid family leave
CWA Position: Support
AB-2527 - Incarceration: pregnant persons
CWA Proposed Position: Support
AB-1830 - Corn masa flour: folic acid fortification
CWA Position: Support
AB-3059 - Human milk
CWA Position: Support
AB-2901 - School and community college employees: paid disability and parental leave
CWA Proposed Position: Support
AB-2110 - Medi-Cal: Adverse Childhood Experiences trauma screenings: providers
CWA Proposed Position: Support
2019 Final Bill Monitor Report
2018 Final Bill Monitor Report
2017 Final Bill Monitor Report
2016 Final Bill Monitor Report
2015 Final Bill Monitor Report
2014 Final Bill Monitor Report
2013 Final Bill Monitor Report
Vendor Rules
Summary of New CA WIC Vendor Rules, April 2014
CWA Position on Vendor Moratorium, March 2012