Food assistance: disasters: utilities.
Vote required
Majority
Fiscal committee
No
Appropriation
No
Current location
Chaptered
Take action
Record your position on this measure.
Create an account to take a stance, submit a written position, or contact your legislator.
Progress
Where this bill stands in the legislative process.
- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Overview
This bill aims to improve the state’s ability to provide food assistance to Californians during disasters. It requires electrical corporations and local publicly owned electric utilities to share outage data with the Department of Social Services, allowing them to better target disaster food assistance programs like CalFresh and D-SNAP. The bill also establishes a process for these utilities to collaborate with the department to maximize the use of federal nutrition assistance programs during emergencies. Finally, it requires the department to submit a report to the legislature on how to improve food assistance efforts.
Key provisions
- Requires electrical corporations and local publicly owned electric utilities to share aggregated customer outage data with the Department of Social Services.
- Establishes a 7-day deadline for utilities to provide this data upon request.
- Specifies the data to be included in the outage reports (dates, duration, counties, ZIP codes, and number of customers affected).
- Requires utilities to designate a point of contact for the Department of Social Services.
- Authorizes the Public Utilities Commission and governing boards of local utilities to establish agreements for data sharing.
- Mandates the Department of Social Services to maximize the use of federal nutrition assistance programs using the shared data.
- Requires the Department of Social Services to submit a report to the Legislature by December 31, 2026, on food assistance efforts.
- Provides that no reimbursement is required for costs associated with the bill.
Bill text
Read the latest version inline or switch to a previous version.
Text extraction is in progress. View the official source.
Sponsors
Official sponsors from legislative records.
2 on record
Primary sponsor
Cosponsor
Arguments
Reasons offered for and against this legislation.
Arguments in favor
No arguments in favor have been submitted.
Submit yoursArguments opposed
No arguments opposed have been submitted.
Submit yours