---
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).