Across California, the IMAGINE agenda is moving forward and bringing us closer to a future where every child can thrive. Here’s the latest:

➡️ Making progress through committees

• AB 1542 (Ward) ensures data protection for our communities by banning businesses from selling or sharing sensitive personal information to a third party.
  • In Committee
• AB 1690 (Ahrens) Young Child Tax Credit expansion.
  • Set for hearing, now in suspense file
• AB 1790 (Connolly) eliminates a billion dollar Corporate Tax loophole called the waters edge tax break.
  • Assembly Revenue & Taxation Committee
• AB 1886 (Elhawary) ensures foster youth in out-of-home placements receive regular, mandatory review timelines and clear discharge processes to prevent indefinite supervision and support successful reentry.
  • Re-referred to Public Safety
• AB 2125 (Rodriguez) removes professional license/certificate suspensions for non-custodial parents with outstanding child support debt and income under 70% Area Median Income.
  • Referred to Judiciary & Business & Professions
• AB 2126 (Elhawary) streamlines the process for applicants in places such as short-term residential therapeutic programs, group homes, and community treatment facilities.
  • Referred to Human Services & Public Safety
• AB 2299 (Calderon) California Antihunger Response and Employment Training Act of 2026 (CARET)
  • Assembly Human Services Committee

➡️ Advancing to the Senate

• AB 673 (Jackson) allows navigators to submit referrals for eligible foster children to county welfare agencies so the program is used by those who need it.
  • To Senate Rules Committee

• AB 713 (Solache) provides equal access to employment opportunities for all students, regardless of immigration status, at University of California, California State University, and California Community Colleges campuses.
  • Passed Assembly Higher Ed, now in Senate
• AB 1049 (Rodriguez) removes Sponsor Deeming from the California Food Assistance Program (CFAP).
  • Sent to Senate, now in Rules Committee

➡️ Moving forward in the Assembly

• AB 1969 (Bonta) for the Next Generation (It Takes a Village 3.0) will expand and support existing anti-poverty, place-based initiatives across the state.
  • Amended and moving through Assembly

➡️ In the Senate

• SB 961 (Ashby) aims to streamline access to CalFresh food assistance for college students.
  • Re-referred to Senate Rules Committee

➡️ Setback, but not the end

• • SB 411 (Pérez) puts kids first by investing in an online statewide SUN Bucks application to ensure equitable access to food for millions of children while bringing in critical federal resources home to our communities.
  • Veto sustained

Every step forward matters and so does every voice pushing these bills ahead. From committee hearings to floor votes, we’re building momentum to end child poverty in California.

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