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Bill	School meal programs: free and reduced-price meals: universal meal service.	Existing law requires a school district or county superintendent of schools maintaining a kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to provide a needy pupil, as defined, one nutritionally adequate free or reduced-price meal during each schoolday, and authorizes the school district or county superintendent of schools to use funds available from any federal or state program to comply with that requirement, as provided. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district and the county superintendent of schools to make paper applications and electronic applications for free or reduced-price meals available to pupils, as provided, and requires the applications to meet certain specifications and include certain information.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 138	California SB 138 (20172018)	bill	School meal programs: free and reduced-price meals: universal meal service.	enacted	McGuire	9	31	3	2017-01-13	2017-10-12	openstates	ocd-bill/893882dc-ae3c-4db4-8294-d43b2bc80cc6	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB138	d7191af757b0fb056bf0bf5113163f28f3f6afa6413d36e6be080e0b355d5f8e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 138 (20172018) — School meal programs: free and reduced-price meals: universal meal service.

Existing law requires a school district or county superintendent of schools maintaining a kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to provide a needy pupil, as defined, one nutritionally adequate free or reduced-price meal during each schoolday, and authorizes the school district or county superintendent of schools to use funds available from any federal or state program to comply with that requirement, as provided. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district and the county superintendent of schools to make paper applications and electronic applications for free or reduced-price meals available to pupils, as provided, and requires the applications to meet certain specifications and include certain information.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. 01/13/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/08/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/26/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/29/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/18/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/21/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/12/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB138 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/18/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Special Consent SB138 — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 138 McGuire Senate Third Reading By GONZALEZ FLETCHER — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• McGuire — primary (person)
• Beall — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez Fletcher — principal coauthor (person)
• Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
• Mitchell — principal coauthor (person)
• Portantino — coauthor (person)
• Thurmond — coauthor (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2017-01-13 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2017-01-17 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 16.
• 2017-01-26 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2017-02-23 Set for hearing March 15.
• 2017-03-08 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-03-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 371.) (March 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-03-24 Set for hearing April 3.
• 2017-04-03 April 3 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2017-05-19 Set for hearing May 25.
• 2017-05-25 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1178.) (May 25). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2017-05-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-26 Published May 26 at 10 a.m.
• 2017-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1396.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2017-06-15 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2017-06-21 June 21 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-06-29 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-07-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-18 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-08-21 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-08-23 August 23 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2017-09-01 Coauthors revised.
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (September 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-07 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3040.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-08 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2017-09-12 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2017-09-14 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2903.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2017-10-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 724, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/893882dc-ae3c-4db4-8294-d43b2bc80cc6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).