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Negotiated definitions and compliance timelines in AB 1264 (Gabriel, 2025), preserving alternative protein eligibility in California school meal procurement — a $4B market and a $300M state training fund.
Language for the 2027 session is being drafted right now. That is the window.
Fremgen Strategies gets you into the framework conversation while the language is still being written. Jimmy Fremgen spent fifteen years as the committee staffer writing it.
Registered California Lobbying Firm · U.S. House Oversight Committee · Assembly Business & Professions, Senior Consultant · SXSW 2024 · Board Chair, Relay Resources
Fremgen Strategies is a registered California lobbying firm working on urgent and stuck issues in the Capitol. Jimmy Fremgen runs every engagement personally — you get the principal, not an account team. Catherine Barankin brings four decades of Capitol relationships to the firm as strategic advisor.
More than fifty years in and around the Capitol, between them. Senior committee staff at the U.S. House Oversight Committee and the California Assembly Committee on Business and Professions, plus multi-state advocacy across twenty-plus states.
Fremgen Strategies is a registered California lobbying firm (Secretary of State).
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