2025 Bill Summaries

1. AB 495 - Family Preparedness Plan Act of 2025 - Strengthens legal tools for family safety plans and caregiving arrangements, including joint guardianship in probate court. Requires local education agencies to adopt Attorney General model policies from "Promoting a Safe and Secure Learning Environment for All." Tasks the State Attorney General with developing guidance to limit assistance with immigration enforcement at childcare centers.
   Sponsors: Alliance for Children's Rights, Public Counsel, and Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA).
   Status: Signed by the Governor, Chapter 664, Statutes of 2025
    
2. AB 542 - Creating Workforce Development Opportunities - Allows continuation school students to attend youth workforce development programs one or two days a week, while completing the required fifteen hours of weekly instruction on other days. Helps prepare students for life after high school by providing work experience.
   Sponsor: Los Angeles Unified School District
   Status: At the Governor’s desk
    
3. AB 607 - CalWORKs Home Visiting Program Expansion - Expands early childhood development by enrolling children up to age 3 in the CalWORKs Home Visiting Program, aligning support with best practices.
   Sponsors: Children Now, and California Welfare Directors Association
   Status: Enacted into law, Chapter 376, Statutes of 2025
    
4. AB 638 - Framework for Stormwater Capture and Use - Requires the State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) by June 2026 to develop guidance for capturing and using stormwater on urban public lands. This will help reuse stormwater for irrigation and reduce pressure on drinking water resources.
   Sponsor: Natural Resources Defense Council
   Status: Bill died in the Senate Appropriations Suspense File
    
5. AB 777 - Disaster CalFRESH Transparency and Reporting Act - Improves coordination between utility companies and the Department of Social Services to ensure disaster-affected families receive timely CalFRESH benefit replacements.
   Sponsors: GRACE End Child Poverty California, Western Center on Law and Poverty, and the California Association of Food Banks.
   Status: At the Governor’s desk
    
6. AB 799 - Incarcerated Fire Crew Survivor Benefit - Provides $50,000 and partial wage replacement to survivors of incarcerated fire crew members who die on duty, recognizing their service and supporting their families.
   Sponsor: Initiate Justice Action
   Status: At the Governor’s desk
    
7. AB 913 - Affordable Housing Financial Flexibility - Grants the California Department of Housing and Community Development authority to transfer funds and waive fees between affordable housing projects owned by the same entity, creating a lifeline for developments facing financial challenges.
   Sponsors: California Housing Partnership and Enterprise Community Partners
   Status: Held in Senate Appropriations Suspense File – Dead
    
8. AB 969 - Improving Access to Domestic Violence Waivers under CalWORKS - Removes program barriers by separating domestic violence waivers from work requirements, opening access for thousands of survivors and families.
   Sponsors: Women’s Foundation California, Solis Policy Institute, California Partnership to End Domestic Violence, Western Center on Law and Poverty, and the California Coalition for Welfare Rights Organization.
   Status: Enacted into law, Chapter 386, Statutes of 2025
    
9. AB 1049 - Removing Barriers to California Food Assistance Program (CFAP) - Eliminates sponsor income requirements for CFAP eligibility, expanding access for qualified immigrants.
   Sponsors: Food4All Coalition, including Nourish California, and the California Immigrant Policy Center.
   Status: 2-year bill in Assembly Appropriations Committee
    
10. AB 1129 - Local Reporting of Community Public Health Data - Allows local health departments to collect birth defect data, enabling better care for conditions like sickle cell disease and disaster impacts.
    Sponsor: Los Angeles County
    Status: 2-year bill in Senate inactive file
     
11. AB 1187 - Firearm Safety Certificate Training Act - Requires people applying for a firearm safety certificate after July 1, 2027, to complete a course with live-fire shooting exercises on a shooting range. Strengthens gun importer protocols by requiring those moving to California to obtain a firearm safety certificate.
    Sponsor: Brady Campaign
    Status: Bill died in the Assembly Appropriations Suspense File
     
12. AB 1236 - Local Innovative Climate and Sustainability Insurance Grant Program - Proposes a competitive grant program for local pilot projects that give residents, small businesses, and communities tools and incentives to reduce risk and rebuild stronger after climate disasters.
    Sponsor: California Department of Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara
    Status: Bill died in the Assembly Appropriations Suspense File
     
13. AB 1357 - Exempting Guaranteed Basic Income Payments - Ensures benefits from any guaranteed basic income program will not count as household income for state-funded and local public assistance. This protects participants from having to forgo necessary benefits like CFAP and CAPI.
    Sponsors: Economic Security California Action, End Poverty in California (EPIC), United Way California Capital Region, and United Parents and Students.
    Status: Bill died in the Senate Appropriations Suspense File
     
14. AB 1424 - Climate Justice in Prisons Emergency Response Act - Requires prisons to adopt extreme weather standards, upgrading HVAC systems to reduce heat illness risk and protect people living and working in facilities.
    Sponsors: Beauty Beyond Bars, Legal Services for Prisoners with Children, and Worksafe.
    Status: 2-year bill in Assembly Appropriations Committee
     
15. AB 1449 – Children: temporary custody (Spot Bill) – Serves as a placeholder for future legislation and currently shortens the timeline for prospective adoptive parents to submit court requests from 10 to 7 working days.

Resolutions

16. AJR 17 The Renewing Immigration Provisions of the Immigration Act of 1929 – Calls on Congress to modernize out-of-date immigration registry laws and adopt a humane approach to immigration reform, supporting federal bills S.2606 and H.R. 1511.
    Sponsor: Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA)
    Status: Senate Judiciary Committee
     
17. HR 31 Denim Day – Declares April 30th as Denim Day, raising awareness that sexual violence is never excusable and encouraging all Californians to participate in support.
    Sponsor: None
    Status: Member moved the bill to the Assembly Rules committee.
     
18. HR 58 California Promotoras Month – Declares October 2025 as California Promotoras Month, showcasing and honoring the valuable contributions of promotoras statewide.
    Sponsor: Vision y Compromiso
    Status: Passed the Assembly

Joint-Authored Measures

19. AB 49 California Safe Haven Schools Act (Muratsuchi) – This bill will establish protections at K-12 schools for children and employees by prohibiting school officials and employees of a local educational agency (LEA) from allowing any immigration enforcement officers to enter a school site without providing a valid judicial warrant or court order. Prohibits LEAs from providing information about students, their families, teachers, and school employees to immigration authorities.
    Sponsor: Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California, and Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights (CHIRLA)
    Status: Signed by the Governor and enacted as Chapter 122, Statutes of 2025.
     
20. AB 397 Young Child Tax Credit (Mark González) – Expands eligibility for the California Young Child Tax Credit by redefining "qualifying child" to include those over age five, increasing family access to vital resources.
    Sponsor: Prosper California Coalition, Golden State Opportunity, GRACE Institute End Child Poverty California, and United Ways of California.
    Status: Died in the Assembly Revenue and Taxation committee
     
21. AB 1299 Parking Violations (Bryan) – This bill allows a local jurisdiction to waive or reduce parking ticket fines at any time if a person can demonstrate their inability to pay the fine, and requires processing agencies to allow individuals to request a parking ticket payment plan at any time.
    Sponsor: Los Angeles City Attorney
    Status: Enacted into law, Chapter 346, Statutes of 2025
     
22. ACR 40 Student Financial Aid Data (Fong) – This resolution states the Legislature and the State of California’s commitment to protecting all the data and information provided by students and their families to California’s postsecondary education.
    Sponsor: None
    Status: 2-year bill on the Senate Inactive file

Co-Authored Measures

23. AB 65 (Aguiar-Curry) School and community college employees: paid disability and parental leave - Requires K-12 public schools and community college districts to provide up to 14 weeks of paid leave for employees experiencing pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, termination of pregnancy, or recovery from those conditions.
    Status: 2-year bill in the Senate Education committee
     
24. AB 238 (Harabedian) Mortgage forbearance: Wildfire –This bill requires a mortgage servicer to provide up to 12 months of forbearance to a borrower experiencing financial hardship due to the January 2025 Los Angeles wildfire disaster.
    Status: Enacted into law, Chapter 128, Statutes of 2025
     
25. AB 239 (Harabedian) State-led County of Los Angeles disaster housing task force - Establishes a State-Led County of Los Angeles Disaster Housing Task Force within the Department of Housing and Community Development (HCD) to rebuild following the 2025 Palisades and Eaton fires.
    Status: At the Governor’s desk
     
26. AB 246 (Bryan) Social Security Tenant Protection Act of 2025 - This bill allows tenants whose Social Security income (SSI) has been interrupted due to the federal government to use financial hardship as a legal defense if their landlord tries to evict them for nonpayment of rent.
    Status: Enacted into law, Chapter 337, Statutes of 2025
     
27. AB 247 (Bryan) Incarcerated individual hand crew members: wages - Requires incarcerated individual hand crew members from county jails, state prisons, and youth Conservation Camps, to be paid an hourly wage of $7.25 while assigned to an active fire and to have the wage rate updated on an annual basis.
    Status: At the Governor’s desk
     
28. AB 380 (Mark González) Price gouging – This bill expands the crime of price gouging during an emergency.
    Status: Bill died in the Senate Appropriations Suspense File
     
29. AB 450 (Carrillo) Public social services: support for older and aging immigrants - This bill requires the California Department of Aging (CDA) to oversee a stakeholder process to develop findings and recommendations on how to best support older and aging immigrants in California, regardless of their immigration status.
    Status: Enacted into law, Chapter 364, Statutes of 2025
     
30. AB 543 (Mark González) Medi-Cal: field medicine - Authorizes a Medi-Cal managed care plan to offer Medi-Cal covered services through an in-network, contracted field medicine provider.
    Status: Enacted into law, Chapter 374, Statutes of 2025
     
31. AB 616 (Caloza) California State Library Parks Pass Program –The bill allows state parks to give California free one-day vehicle passes to support the library’s Parks Pass Program.
    Status: Bill died in the Senate Appropriations Suspense File
     
32. AB 661 (Lee) The California Guaranteed Income Statewide Feasibility Study Act – The bill requires the California Department of Social Services (CDSS) to partner with a qualified research organization to study the design, funding, and launch of a permanent statewide guaranteed income (GI) program for socially and economically vulnerable Californians.
    Status: Bill died in the Assembly Appropriations Suspense File
     
33. AB 677 (Bryan) Pupil experiencing homelessness: directory information and reporting – The bill authorizes schools to connect unhoused students with free vision and dental screenings by sharing limited directory information with providers hosted in school sites, while still giving parents the option to opt out.
    Status: Enacted into law, Chapter 163, Statutes of 2025
     
34. AB 770 (Mark González) Advertising displays: City of Los Angeles: exemption: ordinance – The bill authorizes the City of Los Angeles to make local rules about where outdoor advertisements can go, how large they can be, and in what order they can be placed. These rules will comply with state laws and support the expansion and upgrade of the Los Angeles Convention Center.
    Status: At the Governor’s desk
     
35. AB 790 (Ávila Farías) Homelessness: single women with children – The bill adds “women and children” to the Homeless Equity for Left Behind Populations (HELP) Act, which would require cities, counties, and local homeless programs to include single mothers and their children in homeless plans and reports to the California Interagency Council on Homelessness (Cal-ICH).
    Status: At the Governor’s desk
     
36. AB 1261 (Bonta) Immigration: immigrant youth: access to legal counsel -AB 1261 mandates the Department of Social Services (DSS) to fund and contract with qualified nonprofits and public defenders to ensure that unaccompanied undocumented children do not have to face court and legal proceedings without representation.
    Status: At the Governor’s desk
     
37. SB 20 (Menjivar) Occupational safety: Silica STOP Act –The bill aims to improve the safety of workers in the artificial stone fabrication industry. It does so by banning dry cutting for high-exposure tasks, requiring training and certification for workers and employees, and mandating the State Department of Public Health to conduct safety outreach.
    Status: At the Governor’s desk
     
38. SB 81 (Arreguín) Health and care facilities: information sharing – The bill bans health-care providers from giving immigration enforcement officers access to non-public areas of the facility without a valid judicial warrant or court order.
    Status: Enacted into law, Chapter 123, Statutes of 2025
     
39. SB 388 (Padilla) California Latino Commission – The bill creates the California Latino Commission (CLC), which would be tasked with studying and recommending actions to address the inequities faced by the Latino community in housing, education, economic mobility, labor, and healthcare.
    Status: At the Governor’s desk