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State Legislation

Last Updated: May 12, 2020
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May 14 @1:30pm SEN Labor, Public Employment & Retirement

SB 1103 (Hurtado) Workforce Training Programs: Support Services

May 18 @ 11:30am ASM Rev & Tax

AB 2058 (Gabriel) Income Taxes: Credits: Low Income Housing

May 19 SEN Human Services: upon adjournment of previous committee

SB 882 (Wiener) CalFresh
SB 1065 (Hertzberg) Homeless Assistance
SB 1232 (Glazer) CalWorks: Postsecondary Education

May 20 ASM Housing & Community Development
- AB 2345 (Gonzalez) Planning and zoning: density bonuses: affordable housing
- AB 2405 (Burke) Housing: children & families

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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.

2020 Legislation

Assembly Bills/ Senate Bills/ CAPPA Position noted

Child Care & Early Education Legislation

AB 123 (McCarty) Early childhood education: state preschool program: access: standards. Fact sheet. WATCH
AB 125 (McCarty) Early childhood education: reimbursement rates. Fact Sheet. SUPPORT
AB 324 (Aguiar-Curry) Childcare services: state-subsidized childcare: professional support stipends. Fact Sheet SUPPORT
AB 1001 (Ting) Child care: strategic planning councils. Fact Sheet. WATCH
AB 2286 (Grayson) California state preschool programs: eligibility.
AB 2496 (Choi) Income taxes: credits: employer-provided child care credit. Fact Sheet. WATCH
AB 2500 (McCarty) Transitional kindergarten: average daily attendance. WATCH
AB 2552 (Patterson) Childcare and development services and programs: homeless children. Fact Sheet WATCH
AB 2581 (Reyes) Department of Early Childhood Development WATCH
AB 2594 (Aguiar-Curry) Child care services. Fact Sheet WATCH
AB 2883 (Quirk-Silva) Childcare services: alternative payment programs: direct deposits: reserve funds. CAPPA SPONSORED
AB 2893 (McCarty) Early childhood education: State Department of Education: resources, plans, and an informational web page. WATCH
AB 2894 (McCarty) General plans: early childhood education facilities. WATCH
AB 2986 (Reyes) Family childcare home education networks. SUPPORT
SB 1075 (Gonzalez, Lena) Transitional kindergarten: admission. Fact Sheet WATCH
SB 174 (Leyva) Early Childhood Education: Reimbursement Rates. Fact Sheet SUPPORT

Foster Care Legislation

AB 1929 (Rubio) Child abuse and neglect reporting. Fact Sheet. SUPPORT
AB 1944 (Quirk-Silva) Foster care payments: reasonable travel reimbursement for school. Fact Sheet. WATCH
AB 1954 (Cooley) Foster care: relative and sibling placement. Fact Sheet. WATCH
AB 1996 (Gipson) Foster youth. WATCH
AB 2051 (Reyes) Foster care: foster sibling relationship. Fact Sheet. WATCH
AB 2086 (Rubio) Foster care. WATCH
AB 2153 (Rubio) Child abuse or neglect: foster children. WATCH

Low-income & Housing Legislation

AB 1022 (Wicks) California Antihunger Response and Employment Training Act of 2019. Fact Sheet WATCH
AB 1845 (L. Rivas) Homelessness: Office to End Homelessness. Fact Sheet. SUPPORT
AB 2329 (Chiu) Homelessness: statewide needs and gaps analysis. Fact Sheet. WATCH
AB 2405 (Burke) Housing: children and families. Fact Sheet. SUPPORT
AB 2493 (Choi) Income tax credits: Homelessness Prevention Pilot Act of 2021. Fact Sheet. WATCH
AB 2909 (Eggman) Homeless services. WATCH
AB 2029 (Berman) CalWORKs eligibility: income exemptions. SUPPORT
AB 2058 (Gabriel) Income taxes: credits: low-income housing. Fact Sheet SUPPORT
AB 2345 (Gonzalez) Planning and zoning: density bonuses: affordable housing. Fact Sheet SUPPORT
AB 2399 (Committee on Insurance) Paid family leave: qualifying exigency. WATCH
AB 2413 (Ting) CalFRESH: eligiblity and reporting SUPPORT
AB 2415 (Quirk) Electronic benefits transfer system. WATCH
AB 2469 (Reyes) Nonminor dependents WATCH
AB 2712 (Low) California Universal Basic Income (CalUBI) Program WATCH
SB 882 (Weiner) CalFRESH. Fact Sheet. WATCH
SB 1019 (McGuire) Public social services. SPOT
SB 1065 (Hertzberg) CalWORKs: homeless assistance. Fact Sheet SUPPORT
SB 1073 (Gonzalez, Lena) Medi-Cal: California Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children. Fact Sheet. SUPPORT
SB 1140 (Caballero) Personal income taxes: credits: child poverty tax credit. SUPPORT
SB 1204 (Jones) Homeless children and youths: local educational agencies collaboration. Fact Sheet WATCH
SB 1232 (Glazer) CalWORKs: postsecondary education. SUPPORT

Other

AB 15 (Nazarian) Student financial aid: Children’s Savings Account Program. Fact Sheet. WATCH
AB 31 (C. Garcia) Sales and use taxes: exemption: menstrual hygiene products. WATCH
AB 66 (Gonzalez) Sales and use taxes: exemption: diapers. Fact Sheet. SUPPORT
AB 196 (Gonzalez) Paid family leave. Fact Sheet. WATCH
AB 898 (Wicks) Early and Periodic Screening, Diagnostic, and Treatment services: behavioral
AB 1196 (Gipson) Community schools: California Community Schools Act. WATCH
AB 1956 (Quirk-Silva) School calendar: school start date.
AB 1608 (Holden) Community care facilities: criminal background checks. Fact Sheet WATCH
AB 1837 (Smith) Education finance: emergency average daily attendance.
AB 1995 (L.Rivas) Pupil nutrition: reduced-price meals. Fact Sheet. WATCH
AB 2346 (Berman) Community colleges: part-time students enrolled in early childhood education or child development courses: fee waivers. SUPPORT
AB 2516 (Reyes) Teachers: professional development: bilingual and dual language grant WATCH
AB 2527 (Nazarian) Free school breakfast: nonschoolaged children Fact Sheet. SUPPORT
SB 65 (Pan) Health care coverage: financial assistance. WATCH
SB 955 (Portantino) Recreational and organizational camps. Fact Sheet. WATCH
SB 959 (Hurtado) Educational equity: immigration and citizenship status. Fact Sheet WATCH
SB 1075 Gonzalez, Lena) Transitional kindergarten: admission. Fact Sheet. WATCH

DEAD or 2-Year Bills

DEAD - AB 22 (Burke) Housing: children and families. Fact Sheet. One-Pager.
DEAD - AB 24 (Burke) Personal income taxes: Targeted Child Tax Credit.
DEAD - AB 36 (Bloom) Residential tenancies: rent control.
DEAD - AB 124 (McCarty) Childcare: local planning councils. Fact Sheet.
DEAD - AB 194 (Reyes) - Childcare and development services. Fact Sheet. SUPPORT TEMPLATE
DEAD - AB 367 (Flora) Presence at care facilities: conviction of crimes. Fact Sheet.
DEAD - AB 534 (Mayes) Social services: access to food. Fact Sheet.
DEAD - AB 760 (Cooper) Education finance: local control funding formula: pupil transportation: cost-of-living adjustment and add-on.
DEAD - AB 816 (Quirk-Silva) California Flexible Housing Subsidy Pool Program.
DEAD - AB 1081 (Gallagher) After School Education and Safety Program: funding: authorized purposes. Fact Sheet.
DEAD - AB 1109 (Fong) Preschool: privately funded pilot program: tax credits.
DEAD - AB 1154 (Bonta) California State University: Early care and education major pilot program.
DEAD - AB 1315 (Boerner-Horvath) Housing: small lot subdivisions.
DEAD - AB 1773 (Weber) CalWORKs: supportive services.

DEAD or 2-Year Bills

DEAD - SB 26 (Caballero) Personal income taxes: working families child care tax credit. Fact Sheet.
DEAD - SB 50 (Wiener) Planning and zoning: housing development: streamlined approval: incentives. Fact Sheet.
DEAD - SB 298 (Caballero) Poverty reduction. Fact Sheet. SAMPLE Support Template.
DEAD - SB 374 (Glazer) CalWORKs: postsecondary education. Fact Sheet.
DEAD - SB 489 (Hurtado) CalWORKs: multidisciplinary teams.

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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 48 (Wiener) Low Barrier Navigation Center developments. 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.
SB 734 (Borgeas) Working hours.

DEAD

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

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