AB 777: Food assistance: disasters: utilities.

The bill aims to improve food assistance for families affected by disasters. It requires electrical corporations and local publicly owned electric utilities to provide aggregated customer outage data to the department, which will help maximize food assistance through programs like disaster SNAP. The department must use this data to seek automated mass replacement of federally funded nutrition assistance programs. The bill also requires the department to submit a report on food assistance to the legislature by December 31, 2026. The commission will provide technical assistance to the department to support this report. Local publicly owned electric utilities must have a point of contact for the department to provide requested data.