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Bill	Pupil meals: Child Hunger Prevention and Fair Treatment Act of 2017.	The Child Hunger Prevention and Fair Treatment Act of 2017, among other things, requires certain local educational agencies, as defined, that provide school meals through the federal National School Lunch Program or the federal School Breakfast Program to ensure that a pupil whose parent or guardian has unpaid school meal fees is not shamed, treated differently, or served a meal that differs from what a pupil whose parent or guardian does not have unpaid school meal fees would receive under that local educational agency's policy.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 265	California SB 265 (20192020)	bill	Pupil meals: Child Hunger Prevention and Fair Treatment Act of 2017.	enacted	Hertzberg	8	30	8	2019-02-12	2019-10-12	openstates	ocd-bill/e9309260-8345-4241-9605-2297fb7e5ad6	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB265	0b912fdab05376fa74b2bc6d89b76056a3e90b8c51d3c5655a71c5405be784e5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 265 (20192020) — Pupil meals: Child Hunger Prevention and Fair Treatment Act of 2017.

The Child Hunger Prevention and Fair Treatment Act of 2017, among other things, requires certain local educational agencies, as defined, that provide school meals through the federal National School Lunch Program or the federal School Breakfast Program to ensure that a pupil whose parent or guardian has unpaid school meal fees is not shamed, treated differently, or served a meal that differs from what a pupil whose parent or guardian does not have unpaid school meal fees would receive under that local educational agency's policy.

Version chain

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

1. 02/12/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/10/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/17/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/10/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/03/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/12/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB265 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/12/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 265 Hertzberg Third Reading Urgency By McCarty — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB265 Hertzberg et al. Urgency Clause Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB265 Hertzberg et al. Urgency Clause — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 18–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Hertzberg — primary (person)
• Wilk — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-12 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2019-02-13 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 15.
• 2019-02-21 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2019-03-07 Set for hearing March 27.
• 2019-03-11 March 27 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-03-12 Set for hearing April 3.
• 2019-04-09 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 547.) (April 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-04-10 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-18 Set for hearing April 29.
• 2019-04-29 April 29 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-05-10 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2019-05-17 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1094.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-05-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-21 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1198.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2019-05-30 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2019-06-10 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-14 August 14 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-09-03 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-09 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3207.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-09 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2019-09-10 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2019-09-10 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2785.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2019-10-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 785, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e9309260-8345-4241-9605-2297fb7e5ad6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).