BILL NUMBER: SB 667	INTRODUCED
	BILL TEXT


INTRODUCED BY   Senator Roth

                        FEBRUARY 22, 2013

   An act to amend Section 123285 of the Health and Safety Code,
relating to public health.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   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 1.  Section 123285 of the Health and Safety Code is amended
to read:
   123285.  As used in this article, the following definitions shall
apply:
   (a) "Health professional" means a physician and surgeon,
registered nurse, nutritionist, dietitian, or state or local
medically trained health official, who is competent to professionally
evaluate nutritional need and to authorize supplemental foods, as
determined by the state department.
   (b) "Low income" means an income of not more than 185 percent of
the poverty level as determined by the federal poverty income
guidelines promulgated by the United States Department of Health and
Human Services.
   (c) "Recipient" means  a  low-income pregnant
women   woman  ,  a  low-income post
partum and lactating  women, and   woman, or a
 low-income  infants and children   infant
or child  under five years of age, who  are 
 has been  determined to be at nutritional risk by a health
professional, based on criteria established by the state department.
   (d) "Nutrition coupon" means a check that is limited as to value,
food type, and food quantity and that has a limited period of
validity.
   (e) "WIC Program" means the California Special Supplemental
Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children.