Bills introduced

2833

Bills that reached the Governor's desk

About 1200.

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Bills vetoed

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School sites: Immigration enforcement.

AB 49 (Muratsuchi)

PTA Co-Sponsored

The California Safe Haven Schools Act prohibits school officials from allowing ICE agents to enter a school site without providing a valid judicial warrant or court order.

This law also prohibits districts from providing information to immigration authorities about students, their families, teachers, and school employees.

Read the signing message.

Immigration enforcement: notification.

SB 98 (Pérez)

PTA Co-Sponsored

This law requires each public school’s safety plan to include procedures for notifying parents and school staff when immigration enforcement is confirmed on the school site. Applies also to UC, CSU and California Community Colleges.

Health and care facilities: information sharing.

SB 81 (Arreguín)

Emergency rooms and other nonpublic areas in a hospital are off limits to immigration enforcement without a judicial warrant or court order. This law clarifies that immigration information collected by a health care provider is protected as medical information.

Law enforcement: masks.

SB 627 (Wiener)

It is a crime for a law enforcement officer to wear a facial covering in the performance of duties. Requires any law enforcement agency operating in California to maintain and publicly post a written policy limiting the use of facial coverings.

Educational equity: discrimination: antisemitism prevention

AB 715 (Zbur and Addis)

Establishes a new state Office of Civil Rights and establishes an Antisemitism Prevention Coordinator to develop training, resources, and enforcement strategies for K–12 schools. It also requires districts to investigate and take corrective action when discriminatory content is used in classrooms or professional development.

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Educational equity: discrimination prevention coordinators.

SB 48 (Senators Gonzalez and Pierson and Assembly Members Fong and Ward)

PTA Co-Sponsored

Complements AB 715 by creating four statewide Discrimination Prevention Coordinators — focused on religious, racial, ethnic, gender, and LGBTQ discrimination — to provide resources and training to prevent and consistently address bias and discrimination in schools.

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Unlawfully restrictive covenants: housing developments.

AB 1050 (Schultz)

Expands the existing process whereby a purchaser of a property can remove a covenant, condition, or restriction limiting the property's use for affordable housing to include properties subject to limitations requiring that the property remain exclusively used for commercial purposes.

Descendants of enslaved persons: reparations.

SB 518 (Weber Pierson)

Establishes the Bureau for Descendants of American Slavery within state government, and establishes the Bureau’s duties relating to determining an individual’s status as a descendant. Contingent upon appropriation of sufficient funding by the Legislature.

Community youth athletics programs: sex or gender discrimination.

AB 932 (Irwin)

Prohibits discriminating against a person on the basis of sex or gender in the operation, conduct, or administration of community youth athletics programs, or in the allocation of parks and recreation facilities and resources or school and recreation facilities and resources or school and recreation facilities and resources.

Cyberbullying off-campus acts: model policy.

AB 772 (Lowenthal)

By June 30, 2026, the State Department of Education must develop and share a model policy on addressing bullying, cyberbullying, harassment, sexual harassment, or intimidation happening outside of school hours and campus.

Special education: specialized deaf and hard-of-hearing services.

AB 784 (Hoover)

Removes ambiguity about documentation required to provide services to students who are deaf or hard-of-hearing.

Health care coverage: behavioral diagnoses

AB 951 (Ta)

Prohibits a health care service plan contract or insurance policy from requiring an enrollee previously diagnosed with pervasive developmental disorder (PDD) or autism to receive a re-diagnosis to maintain coverage for behavioral health treatment (BHT) for their condition.

Special education funding: protection.

AJR 7 (Addis)

Calls on the President of the United States and Congress to ensure that services and funding for students with disabilities are uninterrupted, including the allocation, monitoring, and management of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) formula funding and discretionary grant-funded programs.

Pupil records and health: pupils experiencing homelessness: directory information and reporting.

AB 677 (Bryan)

Authorizes the disclosure of directory information of a homeless child or youth pupil to facilitate an eye examination and an oral health assessment with consent.

Special education: pupil transfers: residency requirements: records.

AB 1412 (Gonzalez, Jeff)

Mandates that, within 30 days of students with exceptional needs who transfer between school districts or from out-of-state, the new local educational agency must either adopt and implement the student's existing Individualized Education Program (IEP) or develop a new one in accordance with federal and state laws.

California Health Facilities Financing Authority Act.

AB 627 (Stefani)

Repeals the requirement that working capital loans made by the California Health Facilities Financing Authority (CHFFA) to health facilities be repaid within two years.

Special education: resource specialists: special classes.

AB 560 (Addis)

Requires local educational agencies to take all reasonable steps to distribute the workload associated with initial assessments across all resource specialists employed by the local educational agency in an equal manner, unless otherwise collectively bargained. It would further require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a maximum recommended adult to student staffing ratios for special day classes.

Special education funding: protection.

AJR 7 (Addis)

Resolution: Calls on the President of the United States and Congress to ensure that services and funding for students with disabilities are uninterrupted, including the allocation, monitoring, and management of Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) formula funding and discretionary grant-funded programs.

Special education: nonpublic, nonsectarian schools or agencies.

SB 373 (Grove)

Expands state oversight of nonpublic, nonsectarian schools (NPSs) located outside of California that serve students with disabilities by strengthening certification standards, requiring local educational agencies to conduct in-person interviews with placed students each year to assess their health and safety, and directing the California Department of Education to develop an interview tool for this purpose.

Public social services: Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid.

AJR 3 (Schiavo)

Resolution: Opposes cuts to, and proposals to privatize, Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, as well those to indirectly cut these programs by defunding them

Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP)

SJR 3 (Arreguín)

Resolution: Urges the United States Congress to avoid any cuts to the SNAP program (some know it as food stamps).

Pupil health: individuals with exceptional needs: respiratory services: licensed vocational nurses.

SB 389 (Ochoa Bogh)

Authorizes a licensed vocational nurse, under the supervision of a credentialed school nurse, to provide basic respiratory services to a student with exceptional needs who requires specialized health care services during the school day.

Teacher credentialing programs: youth mental health.

AB 1034 (Ávila Farías)

Requires that a program of professional preparation for a teaching credential include a basic understanding of youth mental health.

Administrative services credential: internship program.

AB 959 (Hadwick)

Authorizes a one-year internship program for candidates for a preliminary administrative credential.

Dual credentialing.

AB 1119 (Patel)

Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to develop efficient routes to dual credentialing for teacher candidates and existing credential holders.

Pupil instruction: treatment of African Americans.

SB 510 (Richardson)

Requires the Instructional Quality Commission to consider including content on the historical, social, economic, and political contributions of African Americans during the Spanish colonization of California, the Gold Rush Era, and Antebellum.

Pupil literacy: credential program standards and professional development: instructional materials.

AB 1454 (Rivas, Muratsuchi, and Blanca Rubio)

Requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to ensure that program standards for the professional preparation of candidates for administrative services and reading and literacy leadership specialist credentials include preparation on how to support teachers in delivering instruction through effective means for teaching literacy. (Popularly known as “the science of reading”)

Requires the state to adopt instructional materials in English language arts/English language development and helps principals support teachers in delivering effective literacy instruction by updating their preparation standards.

California Education Interagency Council.

AB 1098 (Fong)

Establishes the California Education Interagency Council to proactively evaluate and address the changing nature of work and the economy in order to support the advancement of state educational attainment, equity, and workforce goals.

California Education Interagency Council: Incentive Grant Program.

SB 638 (Padilla)

Revises the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program, a state education, economic, and workforce development initiative to provide pupils with high-quality career technical education programs.

Pupil instruction: high school graduation requirements: career technical education.

AB 821 (Gipson)

Existing law allows a course in Career Technical Education to fulfill a course requirement to graduate from high school. The provision included an expiration date; this law continues it.

Local educational agencies: governance training.

AB 640 (Muratsuchi)

Requires governing board members of school districts, county offices of education and charter schools to be trained on K-12 public education school finance governance laws by April 1, 2028, and at least once during their tenure serving as a local educational agency official. Requires the Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team (FCMAT) to write the school finance training curriculum

Public school governance: board member compensation.

AB 1390 (Solache)

Increases the maximum monthly compensation for governing board members of school districts and county boards of education.

Electric bicycles: required equipment.

AB 544 (Davies)

Updates California's bicycle laws, requiring proper brakes, handlebar height, and lights for riding at night. It also strengthens helmet rules for anyone under 18 on bikes, scooters, skateboards, or skates, outlining helmet standards and allowing first-time offenders to get their tickets dismissed by getting a helmet and taking a safety course.

Nevaeh Youth Sports Safety Act.

AB 310 (Alanis)

Delays to January 1, 2028, a requirement that youth sports organizations ensure their athletes have access to an automated external defibrillator (AED) during any official practice or match. It also requires youth sports organizations to ensure that their coaches are certified to perform Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and operate an AED, and have a written cardiac emergency response plan, beginning January 1, 2027.

Pupil health: epinephrine delivery systems: schoolsites and childcare programs.

SB 568 (Niello)

Clarifies that the requirement to provide emergency epinephrine delivery systems, and the associated responsibilities, applies to each public school site, including any program operated by or under contract, and expands the responsibilities to any state or federally subsidized childcare program operated by or under contract.

Drowning prevention: public schools: informational materials.

AB 1005 (Davies)

Boosts water safety and drowning prevention in California schools by regulating informational materials and requiring the California Department of Education to provide relevant resources online. The bill also establishes a partnership to create guidelines for a swim lesson voucher program and directory.

Pupil safety: school employee misconduct: child abuse prevention.

SB 848 (Renée Pérez)

Establishes new requirements to improve pupil safety by addressing school employee misconduct and expands the definition and reporting responsibilities of mandated reporters such as teachers, administrators, staff, etc.

Firearms: converter pistols.

AB 1127 (Gabriel)

PTA priority bill

Prohibits the sale of a specified semiautomatic firearm that can be converted into a machine gun using a pistol converter, and subjects a firearm industry member to civil liability for failing to take steps to prevent installation and use of pistol converters.

Firearms: firearm barrels

SB 704 (Arreguín)

PTA priority bill

Prohibits, commencing January 1, 2027, the sale or transfer of a firearm barrel unless the transaction is completed in person by a licensed firearms dealer.

Pupil and student safety: identification cards.

AB 727 (Mark González, Solache, Cervantes,

Elhawary, Ward, Wiener)

Requires public schools that issue pupil identification cards to print on them the telephone number and 988 text line for The Trevor Project, a leading crisis and suicide prevention hotline for LGBTQ youth.

In July, California announced a partnership with the Trevor Project to provide enhanced competency training. The identification card requirement applies to public colleges and schools that serve grades 7-12.

Crimes: threats

SB-19 (Rubio)

Expands the definition of when making a threat is a crime. This new law addresses threats to commit a violent act at a daycare, school, university, workplace, house of worship, or medical facility.

Threats include statements or other communications, including images posted on social media, intended to create fear of a violent act and which cause fear for one’s safety or the safety of others at these sensitive locations.

Department of Justice:

child abuse reporting.

AB 741 (Ransom)

Requires the Department of Justice to monitor the Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) Central index and notify the CASA program if a child abuse investigation record involving a CASA employee or volunteer is added to the index. Allows the DOJ to increase the fee for a criminal history background check, sufficient to cover the cost of processing subsequent child abuse investigation notifications.

Child daycare facilities.

AB 752 (Ávila Farías)

Streamlines the development of childcare centers that are co-located with multifamily housing or community amenities. Defines them as residential uses under local zoning, exempting centers from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), and prohibiting local fees or business license requirements.

Childcare: Early Childhood Policy Council.

AB 563 (Jackson)

Establishes both a state-level Early Childhood Policy Council and local strategic planning councils to advise the Governor and Legislature on early childhood education policies.

Child welfare services: domestic violence consultant pilot program

AB 779 (Lackey)

Authorizes Los Angeles County to conduct a 5-year pilot program using domestic violence consultants to help child welfare social workers better assist families facing both domestic violence and child maltreatment.

Migrant childcare and development programs.

SB 778 (Limón)

Expands eligibility for the migrant childcare and development programs to include a family with one individual who has earned at least 40 percent of their total gross income from employment in fishing, agriculture or agriculturally related work.

Pedestrian safety: school zones: speed limits.

AB 382 (Berman)

Lowers the presumed speed limit in school zones to 20 mph when children are present or during specified hours, and allows local authorities to set a 15 mph limit in residential school zones with 30 mph or slower posted speeds.

Public postsecondary education: students with dependent children: childcare services, resources, and programs.

SB 271 (Reyes)

Requires CSU and community college campuses — and asks UC campuses — to make sure students who are parents know about available childcare and related support. Financial aid offices, childcare centers, and basic needs centers must connect these students with local childcare resources and services.

Foster care supplement

AB 349 (Dixon)

Requires foster care funding supplements to be adjusted for inflation.

Juveniles: dependency: incarcerated parent.

AB 651 (Bryan)

Requires that incarcerated parents receive notice and the opportunity to be physically present at additional dependency hearings concerning their children. Requires videoconferencing or teleconferencing option if an incarcerated parent waives the right to physical presence.

Foster care: placement: family finding.

AB 562 (Solache)

Requires each county to review data about the average rate at which foster children are placed with relatives. If the county’s placement rate is less than the statewide average, the county will consult with the Center for Excellence in Family Finding, Engagement, and Support to identify best practices that may be adopted by the county to improve its placement rate.

Foster care: placement transition planning.

AB 896 (Elhawary)

Makes moving between foster care homes or back home smoother for children in foster care. Requires counties to have a plan that includes the child's input and gives social workers guidance. The state will offer advice on these plans, and counties need to share their plans with the state.

Wards: probation

AB 1376 (Bonta)

Provides that a ward may not remain on probation for a period that exceeds 12 months from the disposition hearing, except that a court may extend the probation period upon proof by a preponderance of the evidence that it is in the ward's and public's best interest to extend probation.

School facilities

AB 503 (Gonzalez)

Under the Civic Center Act, school districts can charge fees to recover direct costs for the use of nonclassroom school facilities and grounds by eligible organizations such as PTAs.

Truancy.

AB 461 (Ahrens )

Repeals the criminal offense for parents who fail to reasonably supervise and encourage school attendance. Before this law, parents could be criminally charged if their children were chronically absent.

Pupil discipline: expulsions: procedures.

AB 1230 (Bonta)

Supports improved outcomes for expelled students by requiring that rehabilitation plans address the behavior that led to the expulsion and that the plans include services responsive to the student's needs. Plans must provide information regarding program enrollment and readmission.

CalWORKs: CalFresh: eligibility: income and resource exclusions.

AB 42 (Bryan)

CalWORKs and CalFresh are programs designed for low-income families. This law clarifies that any grant, award, scholarship, loan, or fellowship benefit that is provided for educational purposes is not considered income for purposes of eligibility.

Public social services: tax-exempt nonprofit organizations.

AB 1318 (Bonta)

Recent efforts have targeted the tax-exempt status of nonprofits that do not align with the current goals of the federal administration. This bill ensures that California can continue to partner with nonprofits that meet state standards regardless of federal political shifts, thus allowing them to continue to receive funding.