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Committee advances four bills on shelter checks, school meals, social-media awareness and minor bloggers
Summary
The Children, Families, and Food Security Committee advanced four bipartisan bills: AB1148 (background checks for certain crisis shelters), AB1406 (requirement tying school meal rules to 2012 USDA nutrition standards), AB2367 (a $500,000 social-media awareness campaign for minors), and AB4302 (limited protections for minors working as bloggers). All were moved out of committee with no recorded opposition.
At a meeting of the Children, Families, and Food Security Committee, members advanced four bills addressing child welfare, school nutrition, youth social-media safety and minor labor protections.
Assembly Bill A1148, read into the record by the committee clerk, "provides for background checks and other requirements for certain agencies providing temporary home for child or pregnant women during crisis." No witness slips were filed on A1148; the committee moved the bill and the clerk announced it was released from committee.
The committee also considered Assembly Bill 1406, which the clerk described as requiring public schools and nonpublic schools…
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