Asm. Autumn R. Burke

Co-sponsor AB 221

Passed · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Emergency food assistance.

Existing law establishes and requires the State Department of Social Services to administer the CalFood Program to provide food and funding to food banks whose primary function is to facilitate the distribution of food to low-income households, as specified. This bill would require the department to provide a food assistance benefit to low-income California residents, regardless of immigration status, by contracting with nonprofit entities, as defined, to issue the food assistance benefit in the form of prepaid cards. The bill would require the department to procure the prepaid cards to administer the food assistance benefit and to ensure the availability of those prepaid cards to nonprofit entities, as specified. The bill would require participating nonprofit entities to maintain specified records. The bill would require the department and nonprofit entities to distribute all of the food assistance benefits by July 1, 2023. The bill would authorize the department to implement, interpret, or make specific these provisions without taking regulatory action. The bill would exempt contracts awarded pursuant to these provisions from personal services contracting requirements, the Public Contract Code, and the State Contracting Manual, and the contracts would not be subject to the approval of the Department of General Services. The bill would make these provisions operative upon appropriation. The bill would require the department, in consultation with a workgroup, to author a report to provide recommendations and solutions for a permanent food assistance program for low-income California residents experiencing food insecurity, to complete that report by January 1, 2023, and to submit a copy of that report to the Legislature, as specified. This bill would repeal its provisions on January 1, 2025. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Passed Aug 26, 2021 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HR 62

Passed · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to Red Ribbon Week.

Passed Aug 26, 2021 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HR 50

Passed · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to California Impaired Driving Prevention Month.

Passed Aug 26, 2021 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HR 65

Passed · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to sarcoma awareness.

Passed Aug 26, 2021 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HR 66

Passed · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to Women's Equality Day.

Passed Aug 26, 2021 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HR 64

Passed · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to Thyroid Eye Disease Awareness Week.

Passed Aug 26, 2021 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor HR 56

Passed · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to public health.

Passed Aug 26, 2021 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor AJR 5

Passed · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Wild free-roaming horses and burros: protection: roundup moratorium.

This measure would commemorate the 50th anniversary of the federal Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act of 1971. The measure would additionally urge the federal administration to immediately declare a moratorium on all further wild horse and burro roundups, to establish management of these animals informed by independent science and the American public, and to restore a thriving ecological balance to California wild horse and burro areas and territories.

Passed Aug 25, 2021 1 co-sponsor Track

Co-sponsor ACR 87

Signed into law · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to National Gun Violence Awareness Day.

This measure would proclaim June 4, 2021, as National Gun Violence Awareness Day.

Signed into law Aug 23, 2021 1 co-sponsor

Co-sponsor HR 52

Passed · California Assembly · Co-sponsor

Relative to Kimchi Day.

Passed Aug 23, 2021 1 co-sponsor Track