2025 CO-SPONSORED BILLS
| BILL | ISSUE AREA | SUBJECT | OVERVIEW | |||||
| AB 753 (Garcia) | Early Care & Education | Child care: facility licensure: teacher requirements. | Addresses significant staffing shortages and lengthy facilities licensing barriers that exist within early learning and care programs. AB 753 will 1) provide a workforce pathway for Early Childhood Education (ECE) Teachers and 2) ease the licensing process for facilities to serve infants and toddlers. | |||||
| AB 805 (Fong) | Workforce | Postsecondary education: college and career programs. | Intent bill related to college and career programs. | |||||
| SB 590 (Durazo) | Paid Family Leave | Paid family leave: eligibility: care for designated persons. | Would allow California workers to receive paid family leave wage replacement benefits when caring for a “designated person” who is a member of their chosen or extended family. The bill would define designated person to mean any individual related by blood or whose association with the employee is the equivalent of a family relationship. The bill would authorize the employee to identify the designated person when they file a claim for benefits. | |||||
2025 SUPPORT BILLS
| BILL | ISSUE AREA | SUBJECT | OVERVIEW | |||||
| AB 49 (Muratsuchi) | Early Care & Education; Immigration | School sites and day care centers: entry requirements: immigration enforcement. | Would prohibit school officials and employees from allowing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to enter a school site for any purpose without providing valid identification, a written statement of purpose, and a valid judicial warrant, and receiving approval from specified school or district leadership. | |||||
| AB 353 (Boerner) | Digital Equity | Communications: broadband internet service providers: affordable home internet. | Intent bill related to requiring broadband internet service providers to offer affordable home internet to California residents. | |||||
| AB 402 (Patel) | Higher Education | Student financial aid: Cal Grant Program and the California Community College Expanded Entitlement Program. | Would increase the Cal Grant A and B award for private higher education institutions to $9,358 for 2024-25 and either $9,708 or 8,056 in 2025-26, with the higher amount conditioned on the achievement of the target numbers for associate degree for transfer commitments that apply for the prior award year. | |||||
| AB 667 (Solache) | Language Equity | Professions and vocations: license examinations: interpreters. | Would require that licensing boards under the Department of Consumer Affairs (DCA), and the Department of Public Health (DPH) allow individuals with Limited English Proficiency (LEP) the option to utilize an interpreter for a state, written examination for a professional license. | |||||
| AB 718 (Tangipa) | Higher Education | Public postsecondary education: admission: salary and student loan data. | Would require college admissions letters to include information about salaries in proposed program of study and loan data for careers in that area. | |||||
| SB 12 (Gonzalez) | Immigration | State government: Immigrant and Refugee Affairs Agency: Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs. | Would create a new state agency dedicated to immigrant and refugee integration, led by a secretary appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate. This office will oversee immigrant-related programs, assist state agencies in improving service accessibility, and recommend policy and budget strategies. | |||||
| SB 271 (Reyes) | Higher Education; Student Parents | Public postsecondary education: students with dependent children: child care services, resources and programs. | Would build upon existing requirements for public institutions of higher education by expanding the definition of basic needs services and resources to include child care services and resources to provide additional access to resources for student parents. | |||||
| SB 275 (Smallwood-Cuevas) | Workforce | Eligible training provider list. |
Would prohibit an approved training provider from being removed from the eligible training provider list if the provider has submitted verification of completion of continued eligibility requirements through a local workforce development board, except as provided. Would establish processes for reviewing existing eligible providers every two to five years. |
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| SB 323 (Pérez) | Higher Education | Student Aid Commission: California Dream Act application. | Intent bill to maximize use of the California Dream Act. | |||||
STATE POLICY & BUDGET PRIORITIES
UNITE-LA's mission is to ensure the continuous improvement of effective and aligned cradle-through-career public education and workforce development systems in Los Angeles and throughout California. Our commitment to anti-racism is fundamental in advancing equity for Asian, Black, Latinx, Indigenous and other communities of color, especially opportunity youth, immigrants and systems-involved individuals.
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JANUARY 2025 BUDGET LETTER
As an organization that advocates for cradle-through-career education and workforce development policy, UNITE-LA believes that the investments elevated in the following letter will help lift vulnerable Californians and provide them with equitable opportunities for economic mobility.
FEDERAL
FEDERAL POLICY GOALS
Our federal education and workforce development systems have the ability to more effectively meet the diverse needs of all students, their families and their communities. The current systems are siloed, and many key programs, services and leaders are not coordinated in a way that centers students. This creates a system without smooth transitions between services and programs, and often means students are not supported to reach their full potential. Interagency coordination efforts being developed among the Departments of Education, Labor and Commerce will more effectively uplift the success among youth and adults in the workforce. Interagency connections must be strengthened, and employers and workforce development partners must be engaged to ensure a competitive, qualified and well-compensated workforce.
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