California State Legislation

*AB 271 (Reyes) Public Postsecondary Education: Students with dependent children

• Adds child care to basic needs services and resources for students to provide information on affordable child care options near campus, information and connections to resource and referral agencies and local planning councils, and assistance in applying to state and federal child care subsidies and programs.

*AB 752 (Farías) Child Daycare Facilities

• Would encourage development of child care centers co-located with, multi-family housing or other community amenities by eliminating barriers for both providers and developers. Child care providers as well as multi-family housing developers have named restrictive, burdensome, and expensive zoning requirements as a critical barrier to address, which is the focus of this bill.

*AB 563 (Jackson) Child care: Early Childhood Policy Council

• Amended to require the Early Childhood Policy Council to report on successes, challenges, and gaps in the state’s ECE system.

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*AB 753 (Garcia) Facility Licensure: Teacher Requirements

• Provides CSPP teachers 2 years to complete all necessary credentials/coursework to meet the requirements of their position under certain conditions.

*SB 778 (Limon) Migrant Child Care and Development Programs

• Updates the definition of a “migrant agricultural worker” to “a family with at least one individual who has earned at least 40% of their total gross income from employment in fishing, agriculture, or agriculturally related work during the 12-month period immediately preceding the date of application for child care and development services.”

• Revises the income eligibility for the third stage of child care services to also be 85% of the state median income, adjusted for family size.

• Requires schools and licensed childcare facilities to implement the Attorney General’s updated immigration-related policies for family preparedness. Standardizes Caregiver Authorization Affidavits, expands the categories of eligible caregivers, clarifies that a parent’s choice of guardian is given due weight, and creates a short-term guardianship process that allows families facing separations to designate short term guardians while honoring parental rights.

*AB 49 (Muratsuchi) Schoolsites: Immigration Enforcement

• Prohibits school officials and employee from allowing an officer or employee of ICE to enter a school site for any purpose without providing valid ID, a written statement of purpose, and valid judicial warrant and receiving approval from the superintendent of the school district, the superintendent of the county office of education, or the principal of the charter school, or their designee, as applicable.
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*SB 48 (Gonzalez) Immigration Enforcement: Schoolsites: Prohibitions on Access and Sharing Information.

• Prohibits school districts, county offices of education, or charter schools and their personnel from granting a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, or other federal official engaging in immigration related investigation or enforcement, permission to access a school campus without a judicial warrant.
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SB 98 (Pérez) Elementary, Secondary, and Postsecondary Education: Immigration Enforcement: Notification.

• Requires each school district, county office of education, and charter school to immediately notify all pupils, parents, faculty, staff, and other school community members of the presence of immigration officers, as defined, on the schoolsite.

• Provides up to 14 weeks of a leave of absence with specified pay benefits for an employee who is required to be absent from duty because of pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, termination of pregnancy, or recovery from those conditions, as provided.

*AB 1471 (Soria) Child Care Resource & Referral Agencies: Emergencies & Disasters - R&R Network Bill

• Revises WIC code to codify the duties and responsibilities of resource and referrals outlined in the 2023 State Disaster plan. Upon appropriation, provides dedicated funding for those roles and responsibilities.
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• Authorizes a licensee of a community care facility to approve an individual to care for children before another state’s child abuse and neglect registry check under certain, specified conditions.

• • Includes diapers as a covered Medi-Cal benefit for a child greater than 3 years of age who has been diagnosed with a condition, as specified, that contributes to incontinence, and for an individual under 21 years of age if necessary to correct or ameliorate a condition pursuant to certain federal standards.
  
  

*AB 997 (Stefani) License Plate Program

• Increases fees for initial issuance and renewal of the “Have a Heart, Be a Star, Help Our Kids” license plates, in which 50% of the fees go toward state and local child care provider licensure, oversight, recruitment, training, and development, and the remainder to childcare safety and health, as specified.

• Provides certain licensing exemptions for a family childcare home administered by a person certified as a family child care provider by a branch of the United States Armed Forces and that exclusively provides care for children of eligible federal personnel, as defined, and surviving spouses.

• Would amend the definition of a 'qualifying child' and expand the scope of the Young Child Tax Credit to make 500,000 additional families and over one million children eligible for CalCTC.
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• Authorizes a child daycare facility to use a bona fide business or personal check to pay the initial application fee and beginning 2027, requires the department to accept credit card payments for initial application fees and license fees from child daycare facilities. Also requires the department, no later than 2027, to accept initial applications for licensure electronically.
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• Prohibits California law enforcement agencies from collaborating with, or providing any information in writing, verbally, on in any other manner to, immigration authorities regarding proposed or currently underway immigration enforcement actions when the actions could be or are taking place within a radius of one mile of any childcare or daycare facility, religious institution, place of worship, hospital, or medical office.

• Addresses several of the recommendations put forth by the Task Force. More specifically, it establishes a training requirement for all mandated reporters, requires CDSS to develop and maintain the training and codifies the MRAC.