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.

Status: Signed by the Governor.

*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 child care 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.

• Early Care and Education Provision:
  • This bill applies to licensed child daycare facilities and license-exempt California state preschool program facilities
  • Requires schools and licensed child care 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.
  • Require facilities to adopt model policies—developed by the Attorney General—limiting cooperation with immigration enforcement and to inform parents with information about how to access those model policies.
  • Requires the Attorney General, by April 1, 2026, to publish model policies limiting assistance with immigration enforcement at facilities; requires CDSS and CDE to inform facilities of this guidance no later than July 1, 2026; and require CDSS and CDE to inform facilities of any revisions or updates to the model policies.
  • Requires facilities to to request that parents or authorized representatives update their emergency contact information; and to first exhaust any parental instruction relating to the child’s care found in the child’s emergency contact information if an employee of the facility is aware that a child’s parent or authorized representative is not available to care for the child
  • It also requires facilities to report any requests for information or access to the facility by an officer or employee of a law enforcement agency to the state
  • This bill prohibits licensed child care facilities from collecting information about the immigration or citizenship status of children or their family members, except where legally required.
  • Bill status: Signed by Governor on October 12, 2025

*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.
• Fact Sheet

*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.
• Fact Sheet

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.