2026 State Legislation  (UPDATED:  03/16/2026)

Legislative Deadlines

• March 26 - Spring recess begins upon adjournment of the day's session
• April 6 - Legislature reconvenes from spring recess

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Upcoming Hearings

• March 17, 2026 (Tuesday)
• Assembly Health Committee @ 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 - Calendar
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• March 18, 2026 (Wednesday)
• Assembly Education Committee @ 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 126 - Calendar
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• Senate Education Committee @ 9:00 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 - Calendar
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• March 24, 2026 (Tuesday)
• • Assembly Health Committee @ 1:30 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 - Calendar
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  • Position letters due by 12:00 p.m. on March 18
  • Assembly Human Services Committee @1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 - Calendar
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  • Position letters due by 5:00 p.m. on March 18
• March 25, 2026 (Wednesday)
• • Assembly Education Committee @ 1:00 p.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 1100 - Calendar
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  • Position letters due by 5:00 p.m. on March 18
  • Senate Education Committee @ 9:00 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 - Calendar
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  • Position letters due by 12:00 p.m. on March 20

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 
• 2-YR AB 1528 (Committee on Human Services) Child care
• AB 1634 (Davies) Child health and safety: “Have a Heart, Be a Star, Help Our Kids” license plate program
• AB 1914 (Schiavo) General plan elements: childcare FACT SHEET
• AB 1937 (Quirk Silva) Discrimination: business establishments
• AB 1981 (Aguiar Curry) Subsidized childcare: reimbursement rates: reporting FACT SHEET
• AB 1996 (Bonta) California Child Poverty Reduction Advisory Council
• AB 2083 (Jackson) Moreno Valley-Perris Childcare Special District
• AB 2092 (Bonta) Early Childhood Integrated Data System FACT SHEET
• AB 2258 (Ávila Farías) Childcare
• AB 2314 (Rogers) Childcare: regulations
• AB 2379 (Solache) Childcare workers: immigration rights
• AB 2429 (Rubio, Blanca) Childcare: mental health consultation services. FACT SHEET
• AB 2515 (Harabedian) Childcare
• AB 2673 (Rodriguez, Celeste) Personal Income Tax Law: Corporation Tax Law: credit: childcare
• AB 2737 (Patel) California Early Intervention Services Act
• 2YR SB 299 (Cabaldon) California Environmental Quality Act: exemption: day care center: zoning.
• SB 954 (Blakespear) California Environmental Quality Act: exemptions: natural and protected lands: advanced manufacturing: childcare facilities
• SB 980 (Hurtado) Access to medical records FACT SHEET
• SB 902 (Grayson) Childcare: electronic signatures TFC SPONSORED  FACT SHEET  COALITION SIGN-ON LETTER
• SB 1051 (Menjivar) Foster care: childcare FACTSHEET
• SB 1110 (Becker) Early care and learning: rates FACTSHEET
• SB 1200 (Menjivar) Family daycare homes

Immigration

Housing/Homelessness

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

• 2-YR AB 96 (Jackson) Community health workers 
• AB 2765 (Ahrens) CalFresh and CalWORKs: childhood hunger and foster youth FACT SHEET
• 2-YR SB 18 (Rubio) Food Desert Elimination Grant Program.
  
• SB 1025 (Hurtado) Office of Food Security and Affordability. FACT SHEET

Other

• AB 1690 (Ahrens) Personal Income Tax Law: young child tax credit. FACT SHEET
• AB 1755 (Sharp-Collins) CalWORKS
• AB 1969 (Bonta) California Coordinated Neighborhood and Community Services Grant Program FACT SHEET
• AB 1980 (Caloza) Women in the construction industry
• AB 2441 (Rodriguez, Celeste) Community Supporting Innovation Pilot Program
• AB 2470 (Arambula) Public social services.
• AB 2510 (Arambula) CalWORKs
• AB 2567 (Rodriguez, Celeste) CalWORKs: immediate assistance.
• 2YR SB 290 (Smallwood Cuevas) CalWORKs
• 2YR SB 557 (Hurtado) Child abuse: family resource centers
• SB 890 (Ashby) Public social services
• SB 1240 (McNerney) Office of Nonprofit Empowerment. FACT SHEET

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 73 (Jackson) Mental Health: Black Mental Health Navigator Certification.
• 2-YR AB 397 (Gonzalez) Personal Income Tax Law: young child tax credit
• 2-YR AB 421 (Solache) Immigration enforcement: prohibitions on access, sharing information, and law enforcement collaboration 
• 2-YR AB 624 (Dixon) Office of Emergency Services: federal grant funding; Community Relief Act
• 2-YR AB 661 (Lee) The California Guaranteed Income Statewide Feasibility Study Act
• 2-YR AB 636 (Ortega) Medi-Cal: diapers 
• 2-YR AB 936 (Lee) CalFresh Fruit and Vegetable Supplemental Benefits Program 
• 2-YR AB 1161 (Harabedian) Public social services: state of emergency or health emergency.
• 2YR AB 1428 (Muratsuchi) California Affordable Childcare Act: Personal Income Tax and Corporation Tax.
• 2-YR SB 560 Public social services.

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