California Welfare and Institutions Code

§ 8262

WIC § 8262 Effective Jan 1, 2023Div. 8 · Ch. 8

Statute text

The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(a)Research has found that women and men who experienced food and housing insecurity in the past 12 months reported a significantly higher 12-month prevalence of rape, physical violence, or stalking by an intimate partner compared to women and men who did not experience food and housing insecurity.

(b)In a California study, women who experienced interpersonal violence in the last year had almost four times the odds of reporting housing instability than women who did not experience interpersonal violence.

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Legislative history

Added by Stats. 2022, Ch. 665, Sec. 2. (SB 914) Effective January 1, 2023.