SB 667, as introduced, Roth. Supplemental food program.
Existing law, the California Special Supplemental Food Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC Program), authorizes the establishment of a statewide program, administered by the State Department of Public Health, for providing nutritional food supplements to low-income pregnant women, low-income postpartum and lactating women, and low-income infants and children under 5 years of age, who have been determined to be at nutritional risk.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes.
Vote: majority. Appropriation: no. Fiscal committee: no. State-mandated local program: no.
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
Section 123285 of the Health and Safety Code
2 is amended to read:
As used in this article, the following definitions shall
4apply:
5(a) “Health professional” means a physician and surgeon,
6registered nurse, nutritionist, dietitian, or state or local medically
7trained health official, who is competent to professionally evaluate
8nutritional need and to authorize supplemental foods, as determined
9by the state department.
P2 1(b) “Low income” means an income of not more than 185
2percent of the poverty level as determined by the federal poverty
3income guidelines promulgated by the United States Department
4of Health and Human Services.
5(c) “Recipient” meansbegin insert
aend insert low-income pregnantbegin delete womenend deletebegin insert
womanend insert,
6begin insert aend insert low-income post partum and lactatingbegin delete women, andend deletebegin insert woman, or
7aend insert low-incomebegin delete infants and childrenend deletebegin insert infant or childend insert under five years
8of age, whobegin delete areend deletebegin insert has beenend insert determined to be at nutritional risk by a
9health professional, based on criteria established by the state
10department.
11(d) “Nutrition coupon” means a check that is limited as to value,
12food type, and food quantity and that has a limited period of
13validity.
14(e) “WIC Program” means the California Special Supplemental
15Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children.
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