SACRAMENTO, CA – This week, Senator Melissa Hurtado’s (D-Sanger) Senate Bills (SB), addressing preventative health services, health care coverage, access to clean water and economic development advanced through the Senate and will move to the Assembly.

Senator Melissa Hurtado’s Legislative Packet

SB 207 – Will help ensure vulnerable communities have access to asthma prevention services by allowing Medi-Cal to reimburse for asthma education and home trigger assessments provided by qualified, non-licensed professionals including community health workers, and increase financial support for environmental trigger remediation in the home.

SB 260 - Will help ensure Californians maintain health coverage by requiring health plans and insurers to give consumers who lose their coverage for any reason notices of the availability of Medi-Cal and Covered California coverage. The bill will also make it easier for Covered California to reach out to consumers, who have lost their coverage to help minimize gaps in their coverage. 

SB 331 – Will help prevent teen suicide by requiring all California counties to develop a suicide prevention strategic plan, with an emphasis on adolescents. 

SB 436 – Will help prevent child abuse and neglect by formalizing Family Resource Centers as a key delivery network of services and as conduits to strengthening families via family-centered, community-based and culturally sensitive services that include cross-system collaboration as a means to prevent child abuse and neglect.

SB 453 – This bill would allocate additional funding for Aging and Disability Resource Centers to help support vulnerable and aging communities in need of supports and services.

SB 490 – This bill would ensure that CalFresh recipients are not forced to pay back over-issued food stamps that were a result of a county error. 

SB 498 – This bill will invest in short-line railroad projects throughout the state by creating a grant program through Trade Corridor Improvement Funds. These funds will provide improvements while accommodating heavier weight railcars.

SB 501 –  Will help ensure that the City of Reedley keep their local armory building, and continue to provide and administer Veterans’ Services out of the facility.

SB 513 – This bill will provide relief for rural families without reliable access to water by providing a temporary alternative source of water supply, including water tanks.

SB 559 – This bill will help secure California’s water supply by investing $400 million in general funds, once appropriated, towards restoring lost conveyance capacity on the Friant-Kern Canal, one of San Joaquin Valley’s most critical water delivery facilities.

Read more about the bills here.

About Senator Melissa Hurtado

Senator Melissa Hurtado is an advocate for expanding access to health care and clean water, growing educational opportunities and creating more quality jobs. She represents the 14^th Senate District in California, which includes cities in Fresno, Kern, Kings and Tulare counties. Senator Hurtado was born in Fresno, California and was raised in the City of Sanger, where she still resides with her family.

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