Our 2025 Sponsored Bills:
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SB 271 (Gómez Reyes) – Student Parents: Childcare Services, Resources, and Programs.
SB 271 would strengthen support for student parents working to complete their higher education at one of California’s public institutions, while raising children. Higher education is key to economic mobility. Students with children face additional barriers to completing their education, particularly access to childcare, basic needs, and financial aid. Supporting student parents to succeed in higher education fosters economic mobility and well-being for both parents and children in a two generational approach.
AB 753 (Garcia) – Childcare: facility licensure: teacher requirements.
AB 753 will provide a pathway for Early Childhood Education (ECE) Teachers to serve infants and toddlers. Quality child care provides a setting where young children can engage in educational and social activities that foster cognitive, emotional, and social development.
Our 2025 Supported Bills:
SB 48 (Gonzalez) – Immigration enforcement: schoolsites: prohibitions on access and sharing information.
Introduced: December 16, 2024
Current Status: In Assembly. Held at Desk.
SB 48 would prohibit California law enforcement agencies from collaborating with, or providing any information about students, their families, or school staff with immigration authorities if immigration enforcement actions are happening within one mile of a school. This bill would take effect immediately.
SB 778 (Limón) – Migrant childcare and development programs.
Introduced: February 21, 2025
Current Status: In Assembly. Referred to Human Services Committee.
SB 778 would define a “migrant agricultural worker family” as a family with at least one individual who has earned at least 40% of their income from fishing, agriculture, or agriculturally related work during the 12-month period immediately preceding the date of application for childcare and development services. The bill would authorize the individual to obtain and provide specified documentation necessary to establish their current income eligibility.
AB 49 (Muratsuchi) – Schoolsites: immigration enforcement.
Introduced: December 2, 2024
Current Status: Senate Education Committee hearing on June 18th.
AB 49 would prohibit school officials from allowing immigration enforcement officers onto school grounds without proper identification, a signed judicial warrant, and approval from a designated school authority. If those conditions are met, the officer’s access must be limited to areas without students.
AB 65 (Aguiar-Curry) – School and community college employees: paid disability and parental leave.
Introduced: December 03, 2024
Current Status: In Senate; awaiting committee assignment.
AB 65 would remove current rules that allow school and community college boards to make their own policies about pregnancy-related leave and instead require all public schools and community colleges to provide employees—both teachers and staff—up to 14 weeks of paid leave if they are unable to work due to pregnancy, miscarriage, childbirth, abortion, or recovery from any of these. This paid leave can start before and continue after childbirth if the employee is medically disabled by pregnancy or a related condition, and the employee must continue to receive the same health insurance benefits they had before going on leave.
AB 495 (Celeste Rodriguez) – Family Plan Preparedness Act of 2025.
Introduced: February 10, 2025
Current Status: In Senate; awaiting committee assignment.
AB 495 strengthens protections for children in child care settings when a parent or guardian faces immigration-related detention or deportation. It prohibits licensed child care facilities from collecting immigration status information and requires them to follow parental emergency care instructions before contacting authorities. The bill also mandates that these facilities adopt and update model policies from the Attorney General to limit cooperation with immigration enforcement and provide families with information on safety plans and emergency contacts.
AB 865 (González & Solache) – Dual language immersion programs: instructional materials: grants.
Introduced: February 19, 2025
Current Status: In committee: Held under submission.
AB 865 would establish a $5 million grant program to help schools buy materials for dual language programs. Eligible schools could receive a one-time grant of $100,000. Recipients must report how the money was used by June 2029, and the state will send a summary report to lawmakers by the end of 2029.
AB 1098 (Fong) – Postsecondary education: undergraduate and graduate students: pregnancy or pregnancy-related issues.
Introduced: February 20, 2025
Current Status: In Senate; awaiting committee assignment.
AB 1098 would provide undergraduate students the same protections and rights which are granted to graduate students regarding pregnancy and related conditions, including protection from discrimination and access to reasonable accommodations like lactation space and support through the Title IX coordinator. Students can choose whether to accept accommodations, and if they take leave after a birth, they must be reinstated to their previous academic status with no loss of school-based financial aid. Schools must update and share their pregnancy-related accommodation policies annually by email, on their website, and through campus health centers.
AB 1123 (Muratsuchi) – Commission on Teacher Credentialing: membership.
Introduced: February 20, 2025
Current Status: Senate Education Committee hearing on June 18th.
AB 1123 would add three voting members to the commission, appointed by the Governor with Senate approval. These members would include a faculty member in early childhood education, a preschool teacher with a child development permit, and a site supervisor or program director with the appropriate permit. Initial appointments must be made by January 1, 2027, with staggered terms of 2, 3, or 4 years; future appointments would serve 4-year terms.
AB 1454 (Rivas, Muratsuchi, Rubio) – Pupil literacy: administrative services credential program standards and professional development: instructional materials.
Introduced: February 21, 2025
Current Status: In Senate. Referred to Committee on Rules.
This bill would equip educators with the tools they need to foster student confidence and success in reading by enhancing professional development, updating instructional materials, and incorporating evidence-based literacy strategies into administrator training. By integrating the ELA/ELD framework throughout, the bill also strengthens support for biliteracy and multilingual learners, ensuring a more inclusive and effective approach to literacy instruction.