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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Pupil nutrition: pupil meals."
+description: "Existing law requires a school district or county superintendent of schools maintaining kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to provide 2 school meals free of charge during each schoolday to any pupil who requests a meal without consideration of the pupil's eligibility for a federally funded free or reduced-price meal, with a maximum of one free meal for each meal service. The meals provided under this provision are required to be nutritiously adequate meals that qualify for federal reimbursement."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20232024"
+identifier: "AB 95"
+citation: "California AB 95 (20232024)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Pupil nutrition", "pupil meals"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hoover"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 18
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2023-01-09"
+last_action: "2023-10-07"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/552bb6dd-6508-43ae-a25f-6c9ac4f56dbf"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB95"
+source_hash: "a93f3d69c7e6959afc4771a0c2c760c226f72d75a028e36a2643bc601b7bc66c"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 95 (20232024) — Pupil nutrition: pupil meals.
+
+Existing law requires a school district or county superintendent of schools maintaining kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to provide 2 school meals free of charge during each schoolday to any pupil who requests a meal without consideration of the pupil's eligibility for a federally funded free or reduced-price meal, with a maximum of one free meal for each meal service. The meals provided under this provision are required to be nutritiously adequate meals that qualify for federal reimbursement.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **01/09/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB95&version=20230AB9599INT)
+2. **04/17/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB95&version=20230AB9598AMD)
+3. **05/01/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB95&version=20230AB9597AMD)
+4. **10/07/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB95&version=20230AB9595CHP)
+5. **AB95** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB95)
+6. **09/08/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB95&version=20230AB9596ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading AB95 Hoover et al. By Glazer — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 95 Hoover Consent Calendar Second Day — **71–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hoover — primary (person)
+- Essayli — coauthor (person)
+- Wallis — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2023-01-09** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2023-01-10** From printer. May be heard in committee February 9.
+- **2023-01-26** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-17** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2023-04-18** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-04-27** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 26). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
+- **2023-05-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2023-05-02** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2023-05-08** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1492.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2023-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2023-05-17** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
+- **2023-06-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2023-06-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2023-09-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2415.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2023-09-06** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
+- **2023-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
+- **2023-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2023-10-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 318, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/552bb6dd-6508-43ae-a25f-6c9ac4f56dbf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+