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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

• 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

• 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

• 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.·