Establishing a California fruit and vegetable EBT pilot project

This law directs the state’s Department of Social Services to coordinate with the Department of Food and Agriculture, county CalFresh Administrators, and nutrition incentive program operators, to ensure that a supplemental benefits mechanism that allows an authorized retailer to deliver and redeem supplemental benefits as part of the electronic benefit transfer (EBT) system, and that it is compatible with farmers’ markets and grocery stores point-of-sale terminals. It includes a sunset provision, whereby the law is automatically repealed on January 1, 2027.