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Senate committee approves bill to let caretakers receive meals at summer meal sites
Summary
The Senate Education Committee voted to pass SB 225 to the Appropriations Committee. The bill would allow caretakers who accompany children to federally funded summer meal sites to receive meals, proponents say, and drew both support from food-bank and labor groups and limited opposition raising questions about scope and state role.
Senator Bill McNerney introduced SB 225 on April 2, asking the Senate Education Committee to allow caretakers who accompany children to federally funded summer meal sites to receive a meal when the child is served. The committee voted to pass the measure to the Senate Appropriations Committee.
Supporters told the committee that the bill would reduce family food insecurity by making it possible for parents and other caregivers to eat with children at summer meal sites. Becky Silva of the California Association of Food Banks said families lose nutrition when…
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