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State Legislation

Last Updated: January 24, 2020

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Upcoming Legislative Hearings (click here):

Monday, January 27:

ASM Second Reading File

AB 1608 (Holden) Community care facilities: criminal background checks.

ASM Third Reading File

AB 66 (Gonzalez) Sales and use taxes: exemption: diapers.
SB 29 (Durazo) Medi-Cal: eligibility.

Wednesday, January 29: Joint Legislative Audit (Salas, Chair) @ 10am - Rm 444

Oversight Hearing - K-12 Local Control Funding: The State’s Approach Has Not Ensured That Significant
Funding Is Benefiting Students as Intended to Close Achievement Gaps (Report Number 2019-101)

Thursday, February 27: SEN Budget & Fiscal Review (Mitchell, Chair) 9:30am - Rm 4203

Informational Hearing - Housing and Homelessness

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2020 State Legislation

In the spirit of partnership and sharing, we will be supporting the field with legislative and advocacy information, background fact sheets and letter templates to communicate positions and/or to sign on as part of a broader coalition. Assembly Bills (AB) and Senate Bills (SB) that are being tracked are noted below. The bill link will take you to the page noting the most recent version of the bill along with bill history and bill analyses when available. As fact sheets and sample templates become available, they too will be hosted. Click here to see all chaptered or dead bills from the previous year; only active bills will be tracked. Please email us if you would like to have a bill hosted here. To search for bills. click here.

2020 Child Care Informational Advocacy Talking Paper.

ASSEMBLY BILLS:

AB 22 (Burke) Housing: children and families. Fact Sheet. One-Pager.
AB 66 (Gonzalez) Sales and use taxes: exemption: diapers. Fact Sheet.
AB 367 (Flora) Presence at care facilities: conviction of crimes. Fact Sheet.
AB 760 (Cooper) Education finance: local control funding formula: pupil transportation: cost-of-living adjustment and add-on.
AB 1315 (Boerner-Horvath) Housing: small lot subdivisions.
AB 1608 (Holden) Community care facilities: criminal background checks
AB 1834 (Weber) Education finance: local control funding formula: supplemental and concentration grants.
AB 1835 (Weber) Education finance: local control funding formula: supplemental and concentration grants.
AB 1837 (Smith) Education finance: emergency average daily attendance.
AB 1845 (L. Rivas) Homelessness: Office to End Homelessness.
AB 1850 (Gonzalez) Employee classification.
AB 1859 (Santiago) Pupil nutrition: free or reduced-price meals.
AB 1925 (Obernolte) Worker status: independent contractors: small businesses.
AB-1928 (Kiley) Employment standards: independent contractors and employees.
AB-1929 (Rubio) Child abuse and neglect reporting.
AB 1954 (Cooley) Foster care: relative and sibling placement.
AB 1956 (Quirk-Silva) School calendar: school start date.
AB 1979 (Friedman) Foster youth: housing
AB 1988 (Patterson) Foster care.

SENATE BILLS:

SB 29 (Durazo) Medi-Cal: eligibility. Fact Sheet.
SB 795 (Beall) Affordable Housing and Community Development Investment Program.
SB 860 (Beall) Foster Youth Services Coordinating Program: postsecondary education financial aid applications.
SB 884 (Dodd) Education finance: emergencies: public safety power shutoffs

2-Year Bills

AB 15 (Nazarian) Student financial aid: Children's Savings Account Program. Fact Sheet.
AB 24 (Burke) Personal income taxes: Targeted Child Tax Credit.
AB 36 (Bloom) Residential tenancies: rent control.
AB 123 (McCarty) Early childhood education: state preschool program: access: standards. Fact Sheet.
AB 124 (McCarty) Childcare: local planning councils. Fact Sheet.
AB 125 (McCarty) Early childhood education: reimbursement rates. Fact Sheet
AB 194 (Reyes) - Childcare and development services. Fact Sheet. SUPPORT TEMPLATE
AB 196 (Gonzalez) Paid family leave. Fact Sheet.
AB 324 (Aguiar-Curry) Childcare services: state-subsidized childcare: professional support stipends. Fact Sheet.
AB 534 (Mayes) Social services: access to food. Fact Sheet.
AB 816 (Quirk-Silva) California Flexible Housing Subsidy Pool Program.
AB 1001 (Ting) Child care: strategic planning councils. Fact Sheet.
AB 1081 (Gallagher) After School Education and Safety Program: funding: authorized purposes. Fact Sheet.
AB 1109 (Fong) Preschool: privately funded pilot program: tax credits.
AB 1154 (Bonta) California State University: Early care and education major pilot program.
AB 1196 (Gipson) Community schools: California Community Schools Act.
AB 1773 (Weber) CalWORKs: supportive services

2-Year Bills

SB 26 (Caballero) Personal income taxes: working families child care tax credit. Fact Sheet.
SB 50 (Wiener) Planning and zoning: housing development: streamlined approval: incentives.
SB 48 (Wiener) Low Barrier Navigation Center developments. Fact Sheet.
SB 174 (Leyva) Early childhood education: reimbursement rates. Fact Sheet.
SB 298 (Caballero) Poverty reduction. Fact Sheet. SAMPLE Support Template.
SB 321 (Mitchell) CalWORKs: supportive services: childcare. Fact Sheet.
SB 374 (Glazer) CalWORKs: postsecondary education.Fact Sheet.
SB 489 (Hurtado) CalWORKs: multidisciplinary teams.
SB 734 (Borgeas) Working hours.

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2017-18 Archived Legislation

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2018-2019 State Legislation

ASSEMBLY BILLS:

Chaptered Bills

AB 2 (Santiago) Community colleges: California College Promise.
AB 5 (Gonzalez) Worker status: independent contractors. Fact Sheet.
AB 48 (O'Donnell) Education finance: Public Preschool, K-12, and College Health and Safety Bond Act of 2020.
AB 58 (Rivas) Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council.
AB 220 (Bonta) Political Reform Act of 1974: campaign funds: childcare costs. Fact Sheet.
AB 378 (Limon) Childcare: family childcare providers: bargaining representative. Fact Sheet.
AB 406 (Limon) Disability compensation: paid family leave: application in non-English languages. Fact Sheet.
AB 494 (Berman) CalFresh: eligibility: shelter expense deductions. Fact Sheet.
AB 807 (Bauer-Kahan) CalWORKs eligibility: income exemptions. Fact Sheet.
AB 809 (Santiago) Public postsecondary education: child development programs: priority enrollment: Title IX protection: pregnancy and parental status. Fact Sheet.
AB 819 (Stone) Foster care.
AB 865 (Reyes) Resource families: training. Fact Sheet.
AB 960 (Maienschein) CalWORKs: homeless assistance. Fact Sheet.
AB 1004 (McCarty) Developmental screening services.
AB 1172 (Frazier) Special education: nonpublic, nonsectarian schools or agencies.
AB 1377 (Wicks) CalFresh.
AB 1482 (Choi) Tenant Protection Act of 2019: tenancy: rent caps.
AB 1554 (Gonzalez) Employers: dependent care assistance program: notice to employees.

INACTIVE

AB 6 (Reyes) Early childhood education: interagency coordination and quality improvement.
AB 67 (Rivas, L) Homeless integrated data warehouse
AB 71 (Melendez) Employment standards: independent contractors and employees. Fact Sheet.
AB 167 (Rubio) Childcare and development services: infants and toddlers: state funding. Fact Sheet.
AB 249 (Choi) Public employers: employee organizations. Fact Sheet.
AB 347 (Choi) Preschool: privately funded pilot program: tax credits. Fact Sheet.
AB 452 (Mullin) Childcare: facilities: grants. Fact Sheet.
AB 870 (Burke) Public social services.
AB 1059 (Burke) Child poverty.
AB 1070 (Arambula) CalWORKs Home Visiting Initiative.
AB 1256 (Bonta) Early childhood education: learning readiness measures: report.
AB 1716 (Kiley) Family child care home education networks.
AB 1797 (Smith) State Department of Education: report: teacher induction.

DEAD

AB 23 (Burke) Office of Small Business Advocate: Deputy of Business and Workforce Coordination. Vetoed
AB 197 (Weber) Full-day kindergarten. Fact Sheet. Vetoed.
AB 283 (Chu) CalWORKs: school attendance: immunizations. Fact Sheet. Vetoed.
AB 500 (Gonzalez) School and community college employees: paid maternity leave. Fact Sheet. Vetoed.
AB 776 (Kalra) Educational data: pupil identifiers: early childhood education programs. Vetoed.
AB 842 (Limon) Child nutrition: school, childcare, and preschool meals. Fact Sheet. Vetoed.
AB 1085 (McCarty) After school programs: substance use prevention: funding: cannabis revenue. Vetoed.

SENATE BILLS:

Chaptered Bills

SB 234 (Skinner) Family daycare homes. Fact Sheet.
SB 265 (Hertzberg) Pupil meals: Child Hunger Prevention and Fair Treatment Act of 2017. Fact Sheet.
SB 330 (Skinner) Housing Crisis Act of 2019.
SB 687 (Rubio) Homeless Coordinating and Financing Council.

INACTIVE

SB 4 (McGuire) Housing. Fact Sheet.
SB 217 (Portantino) Special education: individuals with exceptional needs. Fact Sheet.
SB 421 (Pan) Children's Cabinet of California. Fact Sheet.
SB 443 (Rubio) Transitional kindergarten: average daily attendance. Fact Sheet.

DEAD

SB 365 (Durazo) CalWORKs: immediate needs assistance. Fact Sheet. Vetoed.

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