2025 State Legislation  (UPDATED:  09/15/2025)

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• Floor session only until September 13th. The Legislature will then go on fall recess.

Legislative Deadlines:

• September 13, 2025: Interim Recess began upon adjournment.
• • Note: Last Friday, the Legislature adopted a suspension of Joint Rule 51(a)(4) and Joint Rule 61(a)(14) to allow both housing to continue considering legislation after the original September 12th deadline.
• October 13, 2025: Last day for Governor to sign or veto bills passed by the Legislature before Sept. 13 and in the Governors possession on or after Sept. 13.
• • Note: The original deadline was October 12th. Due to the Legislature adjourning on September 13th, the Governor will have until midnight on October 13th to take action on legislation.

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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 318 (Alanis) Child daycare: application: fees. FACT SHEET 
  
• AB 495 (Rodriguez) Family Preparedness Act of 2025 FACT SHEET AMENDED
• AB 563 (Jackson) Childcare: Early Childhood Policy Council.  AMENDED
• AB 607 (Rodriguez, Celeste) CalWORKs: Home Visiting Program FACT SHEET AMENDED
• AB 752 (Avila Farias) Child daycare facilities FACT SHEET AMENDED
• AB 753 (Garcia) Childcare: facility licensure: teacher requirements FACT SHEET AMENDED
• AB 904 (Aguiar Curry) Childcare services: workday FACT SHEET AMENDED
• 2-YR AB 997 (Stefani) Child health and safety: “Have a Heart, Be a Star, Help Our Kids” license plate program 
• AB 1324 (Sharp-Collins) CalWORKS FACT SHEET  AMENDED
• AB 1428 (Muratsuchi) California Affordable Childcare Act: Personal Income Tax and Corporation Tax. AMENDED
• 2-YR AB 1471 (Soria) Resource and referral agencies. AMENDED
• 2-YR AB 1528 (Committee on Human Services) Child care - language was added to SB 792
• 2-YR SB 99 (Blakespear) Family childcare homes: United States Armed Forces. FACT SHEET
  
• SB 271 (Reyes) Public postsecondary education: students with dependent children: childcare services, resources, and programs FACT SHEET AMENDED
• SB 582 (Stern) Health and care facilities: licensing during emergencies or disasters FACT SHEET AMENDED
• SB 778 (Limon) Migrant childcare and development programs. FACT SHEET AMENDED
• SB 792 (Arreguin) Childcare: state median income threshold FACT SHEET AMENDED

Immigration

• AB 49 (Muratsuchi) Schoolsites: immigration enforcement. FACT SHEET AMENDED
  
• AB 421 (Solache) Immigration enforcement: prohibitions on access, sharing information, and law enforcement collaboration AMENDED
• SB 48 (Gonzalez) Immigration enforcement: schoolsites: prohibitions on access and sharing information. AMENDED
• SB 98 (Pérez) Elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education: immigration enforcement: notification FACT SHEET AMENDED

Housing/Homelessness

• 2-YR AB 11 (Lee) The Social Housing Act.
• 2-YR AB 37 (Elhawary) Workforce development: mental health service providers: homelessness.
  
• AB 282 (Pellerin) Discrimination: housing: source of income FACT SHEET AMENDED
• 2-YR AB 804 (Wicks) Medi-Cal: housing support services FACT SHEET
• 2-YR SB 33 (Cortese) Homeless pupils: California Success, Opportunity, and Academic Resilience (SOAR) Guaranteed Income Program. FACT SHEET
  

Health/Nutrition

• 2-YR AB 29 (Arambula) Medi-Cal: Adverse Childhood Experiences trauma screenings: providers 
  
• 2-YR AB 73 (Jackson) Mental Health: Black Mental Health Navigator Certification. FACT SHEET
• 2-YR AB 96 (Jackson) Community health workers 
  
• 2-YR AB 319 (Jackson) Foster youth: trauma-informed, therapeutic continuum of care. FACT SHEET 
  
• AB 543 (Gonzalez, Mark) Medi-Cal: street medicine. FACT SHEET AMENDED
• 2-YR AB 636 (Ortega) Medi-Cal: diapers 
  
• 2-YR AB 936 (Lee) CalFresh Fruit and Vegetable Supplemental Benefits Program 
  
• SB 18 (Rubio) Food Desert Elimination Grant Program. AMENDED
• SB 411 (Perez) Stop Child Hunger Act of 2025 FACT SHEET AMENDED

Disaster Recovery

Other

• AB 79 (Arambula) Public social services: higher education. AMENDED
• AB 320 (Bennett) Public social services: eligibility: income exclusions
• 2-YR AB 363 (Bryan) Community colleges: CalWORKs Recipients Education Program: eligibility and services. FACT SHEET 
  
• AB 349 (Dixon) Foster care supplement. FACT SHEET AMENDED
• 2-YR AB 397 (Gonzalez) Personal Income Tax Law: young child tax credit FACT SHEET
• 2-YR AB 661 (Lee) The California Guaranteed Income Statewide Feasibility Study Act
• AB 1074 (Patel) CalWORKs AMENDED
• SB 290 (Smallwood Cuevas) CalWORKs FACT SHEET
• 2-YR SB 560 (Smallwood-Cuevas) Public social services 
  

GUT AND AMEND

• AB 588 (Patel) CalWORKs 
• SB 16 (Blakespear) Homelessness.
  
• SB 507 (Limon) Childcare and development programs

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