2025 State Legislation  (UPDATED:  10/21/2025)

Legislative Deadlines

• November 4, 2025 - Election Day
• December 23-25, 2025 - Winter Holiday
• January 1, 2026 - Statutes take effect
• January 5, 2026 - Legislature reconvenes

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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. 
  
• 2-YR AB 904 (Aguiar Curry) Childcare services: workday 
• 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 
  
• 2-YR AB 1428 (Muratsuchi) California Affordable Childcare Act: Personal Income Tax and Corporation Tax.
  
• 2-YR AB 1471 (Soria) Resource and referral agencies.
• 2-YR AB 1528 (Committee on Human Services) Child care
  
• 2-YR SB 99 (Blakespear) Family childcare homes: United States Armed Forces

Immigration

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

Housing/Homelessness

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

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.
• 2-YR AB 96 (Jackson) Community health workers 
  
• 2-YR AB 319 (Jackson) Foster youth: trauma-informed, therapeutic continuum of care. 
  
• 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. 
• SB 411 (Perez) Stop Child Hunger Act of 2025 FACT SHEET 

Other

• 2-YR AB 363 (Bryan) Community colleges: CalWORKs Recipients Education Program: eligibility and services.
• 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
• AB 1074 (Patel) CalWORKs
  
• 2-YR SB 290 (Smallwood Cuevas) CalWORKs
  
• 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

CHAPTERED

• AB 49 (Muratsuchi) Schoolsites: immigration enforcement. FACT SHEET
• AB 79 (Arambula) Public social services: higher education.
• SB 98 (Pérez) Elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education: immigration enforcement: notification FACT SHEET
• AB 320 (Bennett) Public social services: eligibility: income exclusions
• AB 349 (Dixon) Foster care supplement. FACT SHEET 
• AB 495 (Rodriguez) Family Preparedness Act of 2025 FACT SHEET
  
• AB 543 (Gonzalez, Mark) Medi-Cal: street medicine. FACT SHEET
• AB 563 (Jackson) Childcare: Early Childhood Policy Council. 
• AB 607 (Rodriguez, Celeste) CalWORKs: Home Visiting Program FACT SHEET 
• AB 752 (Avila Farias) Child daycare facilities FACT SHEET
  
• AB 753 (Garcia) Childcare: facility licensure: teacher requirements FACT SHEET
  
• SB 271 (Reyes) Public postsecondary education: students with dependent children: childcare services, resources, and programs FACT SHEET
• SB 582 (Stern) Health and care facilities: licensing during emergencies or disasters FACT SHEET 
• SB 778 (Limon) Migrant childcare and development programs. FACT SHEET 
• SB 792 (Arreguin) Childcare: state median income threshold FACT SHEET

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