Protecting Immigrant Families
AB 2318 (Elhawary)ICE Accountability: Medical Assistance: Requires law enforcement officers to allow medical professionals at the scene of an injury causing incident to provide emergency medical care once the scene is secure.
AB 2624 (Bonta) Immigrant Service Providers: Expands the Secretary of State’s privacy and address-confidentiality program for pro-immigration service providers, employees and volunteers, shielding home and work addresses from public records.
SB 873 (Reyes) Access to Justice: Limiting Courthouse Arrests: Prohibits indiscriminate civil arrests by ICE agents while an individual is traveling to, attending, or returning from a courthouse for any lawful purpose, including participating in a court proceeding.
SB 937 (Gonzalez) Restrictions on Flashbang Grenades and Explosive Breaching Charges: Bans the use of flashbang grenades for crowd control by federal, state, and local law enforcement, except under specified circumstances, and mandates public reporting when such grenades are deployed. Also bans the use of flashbang grenades and explosive breaching charges for immigration enforcement.
SB 942 (Caballero) Private Detention Facility Oversight and Standards Act: Requires state licensure for all privately operated detention facilities in California through CDPH; conditions licensure on compliance with all applicable standards of care contained in the facility’s federal contract; authorizes enforcement with civil penalties; and protects whistleblowers who report health or safety violations.
Demanding Accountability For Our Community
AB 1896 (Gonzalez)Immigration Agents: Employment Disqualification: Disqualifies anyone engaged in immigration enforcement activity from January 20, 2025, to January 20, 2029, from being employed as a state, county, or local public agency employee or peace officer in California.
AB 1929 (Ortega)Non-Profit Health Care Plans: Investment Disclosure: Requires non-profit health care plans, which receive significant state subsidies, to disclose all direct and indirect investments, including investments in for-profit prisons and immigrant detention centers.
AB 2721 (Carrillo)Federal Agency Contracts with Hotels: Disclosure: Requires hotels to disclose any contracts or reservations they have with any federal agency including contracts entered with federal ICE agents.
SB 1257 (Arreguín) Federal Immigration Enforcement Report: Requires the Attorney General to make publicly available and submit to the Legislature an annual report on immigration incidences and activities that occur in California.
Tackling The Cost Of Living
AB 1049 (C. Rodriguez) Removing Barriers to California Food Assistance Program: Eliminates sponsor-deeming requirements from the CA Food Assistance Program (CFAP). This will ensure that eligibility is based solely on an applicant’s actual financial situation and improve access to food assistance for low-income immigrant Californians. (Two Year Bill)
Meeting Our Healthcare Needs
AB 2301 (Soria) Community College Nursing Degrees: Directs the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to establish a pilot program to allow up to 10 community college districts to offer a Bachelor of Science in nursing degree.
SB 1179 (Menjivar) Salvadorean Physicians Program: Replicates the existing proven framework for the Mexico Physicians Program and extends it to doctors from El Salvador to provide care in Federally Qualified Health Centers and any corresponding hospitals serving underserved communities for a maximum period of 3 years.
SB 1422 (Durazo) Medi-Cal Access Restoration Act: Restores enrollment in full-scope Med-Cal for income-eligible undocumented Californians beginning January 1, 2027, reopening access to preventive coverage that was frozen in the 2025-26 State Budget.
Standing With Our Workers
AB 2379 (Solache) Child Care Providers: Civil Rights Training: Requires DSS to notify all licensed and license-exempt family childcare providers of their Fourth Amendment rights and mandates development of a plain-language, multilingual training program for providers on their rights and responsibilities.
AB 2635 (C. Rodriguez)Just Transition for Landscapers Act: Supports landscapers during the transition to electric equipment by strengthening and expanding rebate programs and temporarily limiting punitive local enforcement barriers.
LINKS TO LATINO CAUCUS PRIORITY BILL LISTS:
2014 Latino Caucus Priority Bills
2015 Latino Caucus Priority Bills
2016 Latino Caucus Priority Bills
2017 Latino Caucus Priority Bills
2018 Latino Caucus Priority Bills
2019 Latino Caucus Priority Bills
2020 Latino Caucus Priority Bills
2021 Latino Caucus Priority Bills
