“Children Learning, Parents Earning, Communities Growing"
 Last Updated 9/28/2023

2023 State Legislation  

To keep up-to-date on the bills that are important to our field with CAPPA's extensive bill tracking system, available only to members. This database is updated daily.  

FACT SHEET = Bill fact sheet received from author's office or bill sponsor

AMENDED = This bill's language has been dramatically changed

LETTER = Sample letter template received either from the author's office or bill sponsor

Any bill in RED is no longer moving through the legislative process this year and any bill in GREEN has been signed and chaptered.

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Bills have been heard in Appropriations and those that were passed will now be heard on the floor and voted on. Few have been rereferred to policy committee. Continue checking this page for more updates.

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CHILD CARE & EARLY LEARNING

• AB 393 (L. Rivas) Childcare: dual language learners.
• SB 722 (Ochoa-Bogh) Daycare facilities: incidental medical services plans. FACT SHEET
• AB 51 (Bonta) Early Child Care and Education. FACT SHEET   LETTER   AMENDED
• AB 244 (Wilson) Specialized Inclusivity Training for Childcare Staff Grant Program. FACT SHEET
• AB 262 (Holden) Children's camps: safety and regulation. FACT SHEET
• AB 555 (J. Carrillo) California state preschool programs: reimbursement amounts: adjustment factors. FACT SHEET
• AB 596 (Reyes) Early learning and care: rate reform. FACT SHEET     LETTER
  
• AB 679 (Wicks) Family childcare homes: meals: reimbursement rates. FACT SHEET     LETTER     
• AB 681 (Schiavo) Childcare business enterprise participation goal: childcare bid preference.
• AB 1038 (Rendon) Family Childcare home education networks. FACT SHEET     AMENDED
• AB 1106 (Soria) PK-3 early childhood education specialist credential: grant program. FACT SHEET
• AB 1192 (McCarty) Kindergarten: transitional kindergarten: admission: birth dates: classroom ratios: teacher aide requirements. FACT SHEET
• AB 1321 (Bonta) California Coordinated Neighborhood and Community Services Grant Program. FACT SHEET    LETTER
  
• SB 9 (Cortese) Raising the Age for Extended Foster Care Pilot Program Act of 2023. FACT SHEET     AMENDED
• SB 28 (Glazer) Education Finance: School Facilities: Public Preschool, K-12, and College Health and Safety Bond Act of 2024. FACT SHEET
• SB 242 (Skinner) California Hope, Opportunity, Perseverance, and Empowerment (HOPE) for Children Trust Account Program. FACT SHEET     LETTER    
• SB 380 (Limón) Early learning and care: rate reform. FACT SHEET     LETTER     AMENDED
• SB 499 (Menjivar) School facilities: School Extreme Heat Action Plan Act of 2023. FACT SHEET
• SB 533 (Limón) Income taxes: credit: childcare. AMENDED
• SB 608 (Becker) Child health and safety: “Have a Heart, Be a Star, Help Our Kids” license plate program. FACT SHEET 

HEALTH / NUTRITION

• AB 1701 (Weber) Black infant health: California Perinatal Equity Initiative.
• AB 1707 (Pacheco) Health professionals and facilities: adverse actions based on another state's law.
• AB 85 (Weber) Social determinants of health:  screening and outreach. FACT SHEET
• AB 289 (Holden) Mental health services: youth representation. 
• AB 608 (Schiavo) Medi-Cal: comprehensive perinatal services.  
• SB 348 (Skinner) Pupil meals. FACT SHEET     LETTER
• SB 521 (Smallwood-Cuevas) CalWORKs: pregnancy or parenting.
• SB 628 (Hurtado) State Healthy Food Access Policy. FACT SHEET
• AB 311 (Santiago) California Food Assistance Program: eligibility and benefits.
• AB 614 (Wood) Medi-Cal.
• AB 710 (Schiavo) State Department of Public Health: pregnancy care and abortion services awareness campaign. 
• AB 866 (Rubio) Food assistance for nonminor dependents. 
• AB 1644 (Bonta) Medi-Cal: medically supportive food and nutrition services.
• SB 245 (Hurtado) California Food Assistance Program: eligibility and benefits.
• SB 600 (Menjivar) California CalFresh Minimum Benefit Adequacy Act of 2023. FACT SHEET     LETTER

HOUSING / HOMELESSNESS

• SB 469 (Allen) Housing: publicly funded low-rent housing projects.
• AB 346 (Quirk Silva) Income tax credits: low-income housing: California Debt Limit Allocation Committee rulemaking.
• SB 773 (Glazer) CalWORKs: homeless assistance. FACT SHEET
• AB 11 (Jackson) Affordable California Commission. FACT SHEET
• AB 49 (Soria) Affordable Housing.
• AB 67 (Muratsuchi) Homeless Courts Pilot Program. FACT SHEET
• AB 86 (Jones-Sawyer) Homelessness: Statewide Homelessness Coordinator. FACT SHEET
• AB 312 (Reyes) State Partnership for Affordable Housing Registries in California Grant Program.
• SB 7 (Blakespear) Homelessness.

OTHER

• AB 928 (Rendon) CalFresh Data Dashboard: students. 
• AB 230 (Reyes) Menstrual products: Menstrual Equity for All Act of 2021. FACT SHEET     
• AB 372 (Nguyen) CalWORKs: eligibility: income exclusions. 
• AB 867 (Friedman) Foster youth.
• SB 35 (Umberg) Community Assistance, Recovery, and Empowerment (CARE) Court Program. AMENDED
• AB 274 (Bryan) CalWORKS: CalFresh: eligibility: income exclusions. FACT SHEET     LETTER
• AB 14 (Davies) Personal Income Tax: Credit: childcare costs.
• AB 17 (Alanis) Personal Income Tax: rate. FACT SHEET
• SB 59 (Skinner) Menstrual Product Accessibility Act. FACT SHEET   LETTER
  
• AB 228 (Wilson) Infant formula stockpile. FACT SHEET     
• AB 310 (Arambula) CalWORKs. FACT SHEET     LETTER
• AB 441 (Haney) Earned Income Tax Credit: young child tax credit: foster youth tax credit: periodic payments.
• AB 963 (Schiavo) The End the Foster Care-to-Homelessness Pipeline Act.
• AB 1245 (McCarty) Community colleges: childcare providers: fee waivers. FACT SHEET  
• SB 260 (Menjivar) CalWORKS: aid payments. FACT SHEET     
  
• SB 424 (Durazo) Medi-Cal: Whole Child Model program. 
• SB 824 (Ashby) Foster care.

Gut and Amended Bills:

Bills that went through gut and amend means the author made amendments to a bill remove the current contents in their entirety and replace them with different provisions.

• SB 635 (Menjivar) Health care coverage: hearing aids.
• SB 831 (Caballero) Agricultural workers: immigration: parole.
• SB 803 (Becker) Excess state land: development of affordable housing.
• AB 1352 (Bonta) Governing boards of school districts: censure or removal of members
• SB 299 (Limon) Voter registration: California New Motor Voter Program.

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