SB 1025 California Senate · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Office of Food Security and Affordability.

Summary

Existing law declares that it is the established policy of the state that every human being has the right to access sufficient affordable and healthy food. Existing law establishes various food assistance programs, including, among others, the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) , known in California as CalFresh, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county. This bill would establish the Office of Food Security and Affordability, an independent public entity not affiliated with another state agency or department, to be administered by a Director of Food Security and Affordability. The bill would require the director to be appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate. The bill would require the office to collaborate with appropriate state agencies or departments to, among other things, coordinate statewide outreach for food insecurity programs and establish best practices for food banks and emergency food providers, as specified. The bill would create the Food Security and Affordability Fund for the receipt and deposit of moneys from federal, state, local, or private sources, and upon appropriation by the Legislature, would require the office to use those moneys to implement and administer these provisions. The bill would repeal these provisions on January 1, 2037.

Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2026

Committee Review

Aug 2026

Senate Passage

May 2026

Assembly Passage

Governor

Introduced Feb 10, 2026 Last action Aug 13, 2026

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What changed between versions

03/26/26 - Amended Senate → 05/14/26 - Amended Senate · 3 edits · May 14, 2026

MINOR

The May 14, 2026 amendment to SB 1025 makes two substantive changes: it broadens the scope of entities the new Office of Food Security and Affordability must be independent from and collaborate with by changing 'state agency' to 'state agency or department' throughout, and it changes the fund usage provision from permissive ('may use') to mandatory ('shall use'). The remaining changes are drafting corrections and reformatting.

Scope change

The office's independence and collaboration requirements now explicitly cover both state agencies and state departments, not just agencies. This is a modest broadening that ensures the office cannot be supervised by or must coordinate with any department-level entity, not only agency-level ones.

SCOPE

Throughout the bill, references to 'state agency' were expanded to 'state agency or department,' broadening which entities the office must be independent from and collaborate with. This appears in sections 101001(a), 101001(b), 101003, and 101004(g).

FISCAL

Section 101005(b) was changed from 'the office may use moneys in the fund' to 'the office shall use moneys in the fund,' making it mandatory rather than permissive for the office to spend appropriated funds on implementing the title.

TECHNICAL

A stray word 'to' was removed from the bill's short title ('to of the Government Code' corrected to 'of the Government Code'), and the legislative counsel's digest was updated to reflect the substantive changes above.

Floor votes · Senate May 28, 2026

How they voted

37–0

Passed · 3 other

Total votes 40

May 28, 2026

D Democratic30

30 Yea

100% Yea

R Republican10

7 Yea 3

70% Yea

Vote distribution

All Yea All Nay Mixed No data

Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions

Key actions

Committee

Amendments

Aug 13, 2026

Lower · Passed

August 13 hearing: Held in committee and under submission.

lower

Jun 23, 2026

Lower · Passed

From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

lower

Jun 17, 2026

Lower · Passed

From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.D., G., & H.I. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 16). Re-referred to Com. on E.D., G., & H.I.

lower

Jun 8, 2026

Lower · Passed

From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.

lower

Jun 4, 2026

Committee

Referred to Coms. on HUM. S. and E.D., G., & H.I.

lower

May 28, 2026

Upper · Passed

Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4523.) Ordered to the Assembly.

upper

May 14, 2026

Upper · Passed

Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

upper

May 14, 2026

Upper · Passed

From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4261.) (May 14).

upper

Apr 14, 2026

Upper · Passed

From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 13. Noes 0. Page 3865.) (April 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

upper

Apr 7, 2026

Upper · Passed

From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on G.O. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 3740.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on G.O.

upper

Mar 26, 2026

Upper · Passed

From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S.

upper

Feb 18, 2026

Committee

Referred to Coms. on HUMAN S. and G.O.

upper

Feb 10, 2026

Introduced

Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

upper

1 primary · 2 co-sponsors