2026 State Legislation  (UPDATED:  02/03/2026)

Legislative Deadlines

• February 16 - President's Day
• February 20 - Last day for bills to be introduced
• March 26 - Spring recess begins upon adjournment of the day's session
• April 6 - Legislature reconvenes from spring recess

How to Use the Position Letter Portal - Quick Reference Guide

Procedures put in place to accommodate the pandemic restrictions have been reverted back to pre-pandemic practices in the Senate. Teleconference testimony during Senate and Assembly committee hearings will no longer be available.

Upcoming Hearings

Note: Senate Pro Tempore Limon announced new Senate committee leadership on December 23, 2025. 

• Assembly Human Services Committee - next hearing on March 11 (more details to come)
• Letters of support due by 5:00 p.m. on March 5

Legislation of Interest to the Field

Note: TFC does not formerly support nor oppose any of the bills below unless explicitly stated. If you have any fact sheets / sample letter templates either from the author's office or bill sponsor that are not linked below, please feel free to send to TFC staff so we can host them here. 

FACT SHEET = Background    AMENDED = Bill language changed     LETTER = Sample letter template   RED = completed; chaptered or dead   GREEN = Two-year bill*
*Under the state Constitution, bills introduced in the first year of Session (the odd-numbered year) can be carried over to the second year of the Session (the even-numbered year). The bills listed in green on this webpage must pass their house of origin by January 31 of 2026.

Child Care and Early Education

• 2-YR AB 904 (Aguiar Curry) Childcare services: workday 
• 2YR AB 1428 (Muratsuchi) California Affordable Childcare Act: Personal Income Tax and Corporation Tax.
• 2-YR AB 1528 (Committee on Human Services) Child care
• 2YR SB 299 (Cabaldon) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: day care center: zoning.
• 2YR SB 557 (Hurtado) Child abuse: family resource centers
• SB 902 (Grayson) Childcare: electronic signatures FACT SHEET

Immigration

• 2-YR AB 421 (Solache) Immigration enforcement: prohibitions on access, sharing information, and law enforcement collaboration 

Housing/Homelessness

• 2-YR AB 282 (Pellerin) Discrimination: housing: source of income

• 2-YR AB 73 (Jackson) Mental Health: Black Mental Health Navigator Certification.
• 2-YR AB 96 (Jackson) Community health workers 
  
• 2-YR AB 636 (Ortega) Medi-Cal: diapers 
• 2-YR AB 936 (Lee) CalFresh Fruit and Vegetable Supplemental Benefits Program 
  
• 2-YR SB 18 (Rubio) Food Desert Elimination Grant Program.  

Other

• 2-YR AB 397 (Gonzalez) Personal Income Tax Law: young child tax credit
• 2-YR AB 661 (Lee) The California Guaranteed Income Statewide Feasibility Study Act
• 2YR SB 290 (Smallwood Cuevas) CalWORKs
• 2-YR SB 560 (Smallwood-Cuevas) Public social services 
  

GUT AND AMEND

• 2-YR SB 33 (Cortese) Public contracts: claim resolution.
• 2-YR SB 99 (Blakespear) Military protective orders

CHAPTERED

DEAD

• 2-YR AB 11 (Lee) The Social Housing Act.
• 2-YR AB 37 (Elhawary) Workforce development: mental health service providers: homelessness.
• 2-YR AB 29 (Arambula) Medi-Cal: Adverse Childhood Experiences trauma screenings: providers 
• 2-YR AB 318 (Alanis) Child daycare: application: fees. 
• 2-YR AB 319 (Jackson) Foster youth: trauma-informed, therapeutic continuum of care. 
• 2-YR AB 363(Bryan)Community colleges: CalWORKs Recipients Education Program: eligibility and services.
• 2-YR AB 804 (Wicks) Medi-Cal: housing support services 
• 2-YR AB 997 (Stefani) Child health and safety: “Have a Heart, Be a Star, Help Our Kids” license plate program 
• 2-YR AB 1471 (Soria) Resource and referral agencies.

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