2025 Immigration Legislation
AB 18 (DeMaio, R) California Secure Borders Act of 2025.
Introduced: 12/02/2024 (Spot bill)
Status: 12/03/2024 - From printer. May be heard in committee January 2.
Location: 12/02/2024 - Assembly PRINT
Summary: Current law generally prohibits law enforcement from providing information regarding the release date of an individual from custody or from transferring an individual to immigration authorities without a warrant or judicial probable cause determination. This bill, the California Secure Borders Act of 2025, would state the intent of the Legislature to combat illegal immigration and secure the border by repealing those provisions, prohibiting the use of state funds for various welfare, health, housing, and other services for undocumented immigrants, requiring public disclosure of information on the impact of illegal immigration on crime rates and state and local services, providing cross-deputization training for local law enforcement to support federal border security actions, and providing standards for deployment of the State Guard to the border. (Based on 12/02/2024 text)
AB 49 (Muratsuchi, D) Schoolsites: immigration enforcement.
Introduced: 12/02/2024
Last Amended: 04/21/2025
Status: 04/22/2025 - Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
Calendar: 04/29/25 A-JUDICIARY 8 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 KALRA, ASH, Chair Location: 04/10/2025 - Assembly Judiciary
Summary: Current law prohibits, except as required by state or federal law or as required to administer a state or federally supported educational program, school officials and employees of a school district, county office of education, or charter school from collecting information or documents regarding citizenship or immigration status of pupils or their family members. Current law requires the superintendent of a school district, the superintendent of a county office of education, and the principal of a charter school, as applicable, to report to the respective governing board or body of the local educational agency in a timely manner any requests for information or access to a schoolsite by an officer or employee of a law enforcement agency for the purpose of enforcing the immigration laws in a manner that ensures the confidentiality and privacy of any potentially identifying information. This bill would prohibit school officials and employees of a local educational agency from allowing an officer or employee of an agency conducting immigration enforcement to enter a schoolsite for any purpose without providing valid identification and a valid judicial warrant, a court order, or exigent circumstances necessitating immediate action. The bill would require the local educational agency, if the officer or employee meets those requirements, to limit access to facilities where pupils are not present. (Based on 04/21/2025 text)
AB 85 (Essayli, ) Law enforcement: cooperation with immigration authorities.
Introduced: 12/20/2024
Status: 04/08/2025 - In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
Location: 02/03/2025 - Assembly Public Safety
Summary: Under current law, a law enforcement official has limited discretion to cooperate with immigration authorities, and may only provide information regarding a person’s release date or transfer an individual to immigration authorities without a judicial warrant or probable cause determination if the individual has been convicted of specified crimes, including, but not limited to, serious and violent felonies, as specified, and only if doing so would not violate any federal, state, or local law, or local policy. Notwithstanding those provisions, this bill would instead require law enforcement officials to cooperate with immigration authorities by detaining
and transferring an individual and providing release information if a person has been convicted of a felony. (Based on 12/20/2024 text)
AB 324 (Sanchez, R) California Values Act: exception.
Introduced: 01/27/2025
Status: 04/24/2025 - From committee: Without further action pursuant to Joint Rule 62(a).
Location: 03/03/2025 - Assembly Public Safety
Summary: The California Values Act generally prohibits California law enforcement agencies from investigating, interrogating, detaining, detecting, or arresting persons for immigration enforcement purposes.
Current law provides certain limited exceptions to this prohibition, including transfers of persons pursuant to a judicial warrant and providing certain information to federal authorities regarding persons convicted of human trafficking. This bill would additionally except, for purposes of the act, any California law enforcement agency performing any responsibilities under the scope of its jurisdiction regarding any person who is alleged to have violated, or who has been previously convicted of violating, specified provisions relating to sex trafficking. (Based on 01/27/2025 text)
AB 419 (Connolly, D) Educational equity: immigration enforcement.
Introduced: 02/05/2025
Last Amended: 03/27/2025
Status: 04/23/2025 - In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
Location: 04/23/2025 - Assembly APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Current law requires the governing board or body of a school district, county office of education, or charter school to perform specified actions relating to pupils and immigration status, including, among others, providing information to parents and guardians, as appropriate, regarding their children’s right to a free public education, regardless of immigration status or religious beliefs. This bill would require the governing board or body of a local educational agency to post specified information related to immigration enforcement in the administrative buildings and on the internet websites of the local educational agency and each of its schoolsites, as provided. To the extent the bill imposes additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 03/27/2025 text) AB 421 (Solache, D) Immigration enforcement: prohibitions on access, sharing information, and law enforcement collaboration.
Introduced: 02/05/2025
Status: 04/08/2025 - In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
Location: 03/03/2025 - Assembly Public Safety
Summary: The California Values Act generally prohibits California law enforcement agencies from investigating, interrogating, detaining, detecting, or arresting persons for immigration enforcement purposes.
Current law provides certain limited exceptions to this prohibition. This bill would prohibit California law enforcement agencies from collaborating with, or providing any information in writing, verbally, on in any other manner to, immigration authorities regarding proposed or currently underway immigration enforcement actions when the actions could be or are taking place within a radius of one mile of any childcare or daycare facility, religious institution, place of worship, hospital, or medical office. To the extent this bill would impose additional duties on local law enforcement agencies or officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 02/05/2025 text)
AB 450 (Carrillo, D) Public social services: support for aging immigrant and undocumented older adults.
Introduced: 02/06/2025
Last Amended: 03/13/2025
Status: 04/23/2025 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 22).
Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.
Calendar: 04/29/25 A-HUMAN SERVICES 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 LEE, ALEX, Chair Location: 04/22/2025 - Assembly Human Services
Summary: The Mello-Granlund Older Californians Act establishes the California Department of Aging and states that the mission of the department is to provide leadership to the area agencies on aging in developing systems of home- and community-based services that maintain individuals in their own homes or least
restrictive homelike environments. This bill would, subject to an appropriation for these purposes, require the department to oversee a stakeholder process to support findings and recommendations on how to best support undocumented older adults, as defined, as they age in California. The bill would require the department to establish a panel, as specified, and would require the panel to invite stakeholder and subject matter experts to participate. The bill would require the panel to consider specified issues, including affordability and access to social services and housing. The bill would require the first meeting to occur no later than 90 days after funding for the panel becomes available and authorizes the department to contract with academic research entities to supplement the process. The bill would require the panel to issue findings and recommendations to the department by July 1, 2028, on the most effective ways to implement policies and programs to support aging immigrant and undocumented older adults. (Based on 03/13/2025 text) AB 548 (Solache, D) Enhanced Services for Asylees and Vulnerable Noncitizens program.
Introduced: 02/11/2025
Last Amended: 03/24/2025
Status: 03/25/2025 - Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.
Calendar: 04/29/25 A-HUMAN SERVICES 1:30 p.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 LEE, ALEX, Chair Location: 03/24/2025 - Assembly Human Services
Summary: Current law, subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act, establishes the Enhanced Services for Asylees and Vulnerable Noncitizens program to provide resettlement services for persons granted asylum by the United States Attorney General or the Secretary of Homeland Security or who are vulnerable noncitizens. For purposes of the program, vulnerable noncitizens are persons who are eligible to receive refugee cash assistance and services as victims of crime. Current law requires the program, under the administration of the State Department of Social Services, to provide specified services for up to 90 days within the first year following a person’s grant of asylum or eligibility for services as a victim of a crime, respectively. Current law requires grants or contracts awarded under the program to be executed only with nonprofit organizations, as specified, with at least 3 years of experience with providing case management services and providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services. Current law requires the department, in collaboration with service providers, to determine outcome metrics to define program success. This bill would change the eligibility criteria to receive services under the program from asylees or vulnerable noncitizens, as described above, to persons who, among other things, are screened by the United States Department of Homeland Security during January 1, 2024, to January 1, 2026, inclusive. The bill would require the program to provide services to an eligible person for up to 90 days within the first year following that screening. (Based on 03/24/2025 text)
AB 1012 (Essayli, ) Medi-Cal: immigration status.
Introduced: 02/20/2025
Status: 02/21/2025 - From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
Location: 02/20/2025 - Assembly PRINT
Summary: Would create the Serving Our Seniors Fund to make an individual who does not have satisfactory immigrant status ineligible for Medi-Cal benefits, and would transfer funds previously appropriated for the provision of Medi-Cal benefits to those individuals to that fund. The bill would appropriate the moneys in that fund to the State Department of Health Care Services to restore and maintain payments for Medicare Part B premiums for eligible individuals. By making the moneys available without regard to fiscal years, the bill would create a continuous appropriation. (Based on 02/20/2025 text) AB 1025 (Pellerin, D) Standby guardianship of minors.
Introduced: 02/20/2025 (Spot bill)
Last Amended: 03/17/2025
Status: 03/18/2025 - Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
Calendar: 04/29/25 A-JUDICIARY 8 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 KALRA, ASH, Chair Location: 03/17/2025 - Assembly Judiciary
Summary: Under current law, the guardian or conservator of a minor has specified powers over the care, custody, and control of the minor. Current law authorizes a caregiver, who properly completes and signs a caregiver’s authorization affidavit, to provide specified care to a minor, including, among other care, enrolling the minor in school and consenting to school-related medical care on behalf of the minor. This bill, the Standby Guardianship Act, would authorize, if specified conditions are met, a custodial parent or legal guardian of a minor child to designate a person to serve as a standby guardian of the person, the estate, or both of the minor child by completing a Standby Guardian’s Authorization Affidavit. The bill would authorize a custodial parent or legal guardian to also specify a person to serve as alternate standby guardian in case the
originally designated standby guardian is or becomes unwilling or unable to act as standby guardian. The bill would require the designation of a standby guardian to take effect upon the occurrence of an adverse immigration action, as defined, to the custodial parent or legal guardian. (Based on 03/17/2025 text) AB 1066 (Castillo, R) Immigration services: grants.
Introduced: 02/20/2025
Status: 03/10/2025 - Referred to Coms. on HUM. S. and JUD.
Calendar: 05/01/25 A-HUMAN SERVICES Upon adjournment of Session - State Capitol, Room 444 LEE, ALEX, Chair
Location: 03/10/2025 - Assembly Human Services
Summary: Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services, subject to an appropriation, to provide grants to qualified nonprofit organizations through contracts, in order to provide certain immigration- related legal services to persons residing in, or formerly residing in, the state. Under existing law, those grants are aimed at obtaining certain immigration remedies and benefits, assisting with the naturalization process and an appeal arising from the process, or providing legal training and technical assistance. Existing law prohibits these funds from being used to provide legal services to an individual who has been convicted of, or who is currently appealing a conviction for, a violent felony, as specified, or a serious felony, as specified. This bill would additionally prohibit these funds from being used to obstruct or interfere with federal enforcement actions or legal proceedings against individuals convicted of a felony who are present in the United States in violation of federal immigration laws. The bill would specify that this restriction includes, but is not limited to, expenditures on litigation, administrative actions, or any other measures intended to shield such individuals from federal apprehension or deportation. (Based on 02/20/2025 text) AB 1261 (Bonta, D) Immigration: unaccompanied undocumented minors: right to legal counsel.
Introduced: 02/21/2025
Last Amended: 04/23/2025
Status: 04/24/2025 - Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Location: 04/22/2025 - Assembly Appropriations
Summary: Current law, subject to available funding, requires the State Department of Social Services to contract with qualified nonprofit legal services organizations to provide legal services to unaccompanied undocumented minors who are transferred to the care and custody of the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement and who are present in this state or are residing with a family member or other sponsor. Current law requires contracts awarded pursuant to the above-described provision to be executed with qualified nonprofit legal services organizations that meet certain requirements, including having experience representing individuals in removal proceedings and asylum applications. This bill would require the state to provide legal counsel to each unaccompanied undocumented minor in the physical custody of the federal Office of Refugee Resettlement and present in California or residing with a family member or other sponsor in California, as specified. (Based on 04/23/2025 text)
AB 1303 (Valencia, D) Communications: lifeline telephone service program.
Introduced: 02/21/2025
Last Amended: 04/01/2025
Status: 04/09/2025 - Coauthors revised. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 8.
Noes 2.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
Calendar: 04/29/25 A-JUDICIARY 8 a.m. - State Capitol, Room 437 KALRA, ASH, Chair Location: 04/09/2025 - Assembly Judiciary
Summary: Current law vests the Public Utilities Commission with regulatory authority over public utilities, including telephone corporations. The Moore Universal Telephone Service Act establishes the Universal Lifeline Telephone Service program in order to provide low-income households with access to affordable basic residential telephone service. Current law requires the commission to accept applications for lifeline telephone service according to procedures specified by the commission. This bill would prohibit the commission, the commission’s staff, the lifeline program’s third-party administrator, and lifeline service providers, and their contractors, agents, successors, or assignees, from sharing, disclosing, or otherwise making accessible any information provided by an applicant or subscriber to the lifeline program, or a subprogram or pilot program of the lifeline program, to any agency of a local government, a state government, or the federal government, or to an immigration authority, as defined, without a court-ordered subpoena or judicial warrant from a judge of a court of the state, as specified. (Based on 04/01/2025 text)
SB 12 (Gonzalez, D) State government: Immigrant and Refugee Affairs Agency: Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs.
Introduced: 12/02/2024
Last Amended: 04/10/2025
Status: 04/25/2025 - Set for hearing May 5.
Calendar: 05/05/25 S-APPROPRIATIONS 10 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 CABALLERO, ANNA, Chair Location: 04/23/2025 - Senate Appropriations
Summary: Current law designates 8 agencies in state government and requires the secretary of an agency to be generally responsible for the sound fiscal management of each department, office, or other unit within the agency. Current law further requires the secretary of an agency to, among other duties, continually seek to improve the organization structure, the operating policies, and the management information systems of each department, office, or other unit. This bill would establish the Immigrant and Refugee Affairs Agency as an agency within state government, to be headed by a secretary who is appointed by the Governor and subject to Senate confirmation. The bill would specify that the purpose of the agency is to enhance, and reduce obstacles to, immigrant and refugee inclusion into the social, cultural, economic, and civic life of the state. The bill would authorize the secretary to, among other things, assist other state agencies in evaluating their programs for accessibility and effectiveness in providing services to immigrants and refugees and recommending policy and budget mechanisms for meeting immigrant and refugee inclusion. (Based on 04/10/2025 text)
SB 48 (Gonzalez, D) Immigration enforcement: schoolsites: prohibitions on access and sharing information.
Introduced: 12/16/2024
Last Amended: 04/23/2025
Status: 04/23/2025 - From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re- referred to Com. on JUD.
Calendar: 04/29/25 S-JUDICIARY 9:30 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 UMBERG, THOMAS, Chair Location: 04/09/2025 - Senate Judiciary
Summary: Would prohibit school districts, county offices of education, or charter schools and their personnel, to the extent possible, from granting permission to an immigration authority to access the nonpublic areas of a schoolsite, producing a pupil for questioning by an immigration authority at a schoolsite, or consenting to a search of any kind of the nonpublic areas of a schoolsite by an immigration authority, unless the immigration authority presents a valid judicial warrant or court order. The bill would require a local educational agency and its personnel, when presented with a valid judicial warrant or court order to carry out the above-described actions, to (1) request valid identification and a written statement of purpose from the immigration authority and retain copies of those documents and (2), as early as possible, notify the designated local educational agency administrator of the request and advise the immigration authority that the local educational agency administrator is required to provide direction before access to the nonpublic areas of a schoolsite or pupil may be granted. The bill would require a local educational agency and its personnel, if an immigration authority does not present a valid judicial warrant or court order, to (1), as early as possible, notify the designated local educational agency administrator of the request, (2) deny the immigration authority access to the nonpublic areas of the schoolsite, and (3) make a reasonable effort to have the denial witnessed and documented. The bill would also prohibit a local educational agency and its personnel from disclosing or providing, in writing, verbally, or in any other manner, the education records of or any information about a pupil, pupil’s family and household, school employee, or teacher to an immigration authority without a valid judicial warrant or court order directing the local educational agency or its personnel to do so. The bill would also require the Attorney General to publish model policies to assist K–12 schools in responding to immigration issues pursuant to the above-described requirements. (Based on 04/23/2025 text) SB 81 (Arreguín, D) Health and care facilities: information sharing.
Introduced: 01/17/2025 (Spot bill)
Last Amended: 03/24/2025
Status: 04/24/2025 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (April 23). Re- referred to Com. on JUD.
Calendar: 04/29/25 S-JUDICIARY 9:30 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 UMBERG, THOMAS, Chair Location: 04/02/2025 - Senate Judiciary
Summary: (1)The Confidentiality of Medical Information Act (CMIA) prohibits a provider of health care, a health care service plan, a contractor, or a corporation and its subsidiaries and affiliates from intentionally sharing, selling, using for marketing, or otherwise using any medical information, as defined, for any purpose not necessary to provide health care services to a patient, except as provided. The CMIA authorizes a
provider of health care, health care service plan, or contractor to disclose medical information regarding a patient of the provider of health care or an enrollee or subscriber of a health care service plan with authorization from the patient or pursuant to a search warrant lawfully issued to a governmental law enforcement agency. Existing law makes a violation of these provisions that results in economic loss or personal injury to a patient punishable as a misdemeanor. This bill would revise the definition of “medical information” to include immigration status, including current and prior immigration status, and place of birth, and would define “immigration enforcement” to mean any and all efforts to investigate, enforce, or assist in the investigation or enforcement of any federal civil immigration law, and also includes any and all efforts to investigate, enforce, or assist in the investigation or enforcement of any federal criminal immigration that penalizes a person’s presence in, entry or reentry to, or employment in, the United States. The bill would specify that a provider of health care, health care service plan, or contractor may disclose medical information regarding a patient of the provider of health care or an enrollee or subscriber or a health care service plan pursuant to a search warrant lawfully issued and signed by a judge, including a magistrate judge, to a governmental law enforcement agency. (Based on 03/24/2025 text) SB 98 (Pérez, D) Elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education: immigration enforcement:
notification.
Introduced: 01/23/2025
Last Amended: 04/02/2025
Status: 04/28/2025 - April 28 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
Location: 04/28/2025 - Senate APPR. SUSPENSE FILE
Summary: Current law prohibits, except as required by state or federal law or as required to administer a state or federally supported educational program, school officials and employees of a school district, county office of education, or charter school from collecting information or documents regarding citizenship or immigration status of pupils or their family members. Current law requires the Attorney General, by April 1, 2018, in consultation with the appropriate stakeholders, to publish model policies limiting assistance with immigration enforcement at public schools, to the fullest extent possible consistent with federal and state law, and ensuring that public schools remain safe and accessible to all California residents, regardless of immigration status, and requires the Attorney General, at a minimum, to consider certain issues when developing the model policies, including, among others, procedures for local educational agency employees to notify the specified officials if an individual requests or gains access to school grounds for purposes related to immigration enforcement. This bill would require the governing board or body of a local educational agency to notify, as specified, all teachers, staff, other school community members that work on the schoolsite, parents, and guardians when the presence of immigration enforcement, as defined, is confirmed on the schoolsite. To the extent that the bill would impose new duties on school districts, county office of education, or charter schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (Based on 04/02/2025 text) SB 281 (Pérez, D) Pleas: immigration advisement.
Introduced: 02/05/2025
Status: 03/26/2025 - Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Calendar: 05/01/25 #26 S-SENATE BILLS -THIRD READING FILE Location: 03/26/2025 - Senate THIRD READING
Summary: Current law requires the court, prior to the acceptance of a plea of guilty or nolo contendere, to advise the defendant that if they are not a citizen, conviction of the crime charged may result in deportation, exclusion from admission to the United States, or denial of naturalization. After January 1, 1978, if the court fails to advise the defendant, as required, and the defendant shows that conviction of the offense to which the defendant pleaded guilty or nolo contendere may have the consequences for the defendant of deportation, exclusion from admission to the United States, or denial of naturalization pursuant to the laws of the United States, the court, on the defendant’s motion, is required to vacate the judgment and permit the defendant to withdraw the plea of guilty or nolo contendere, and enter a plea of not guilty. This bill would require the court to give the above-described advisement verbatim and would clarify the advisement to state that if the defendant is not a citizen of the United States, conviction may result in the specified immigration consequences. (Based on 02/05/2025 text)
SB 294 (Reyes, D) The Workplace Know Your Rights Act.
Introduced: 02/06/2025
Last Amended: 03/17/2025
Status: 04/23/2025 - From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (April 23). Re- referred to Com. on JUD.
Calendar: 04/29/25 S-JUDICIARY 9:30 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2100 UMBERG, THOMAS, Chair
Location: 04/23/2025 - Senate Judiciary
Summary: Current law establishes the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, headed by the Labor Commissioner, within the Department of Industrial Relations, for the purpose of enforcing labor laws. Current law prescribes the duties and rights of employers and employees relating to specified labor laws, including, among other things, payment of wages, working conditions, paid sick days, workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance, and notice requirements related to inspections conducted by an immigration agency. This bill would establish the Workplace Know Your Rights Act. The bill would require an employer to annually provide a stand-alone written notice to each current employee, and to each new employee upon hire, of workers’ rights under state and federal law. The bill would list the areas of workers’ rights to be covered by the notice, including, among other things, the categories described above, as well as the constitutional rights of employees when interacting with law enforcement at the workplace, as defined by the bill. The bill would also require the notice to contain a list of the state agencies at which an employee may file a labor, fair employment, data privacy, or civil rights claim. This bill would require the Labor Commissioner, on or before July 1, 2026, to develop a template notice and would require an employer to use the template notice to comply with the notice requirement described above. (Based on 03/17/2025 text) SB 635 (Durazo, D) Food vendors and facilities: enforcement activities.
Introduced: 02/20/2025
Last Amended: 04/07/2025
Status: 04/11/2025 - Set for hearing April 29.
Calendar: 04/29/25 S-PUBLIC SAFETY 8:30 a.m. - 1021 O Street, Room 2200 ARREGUÍN, JESSE, Chair Location: 04/03/2025 - Senate Public Safety
Summary: Current law authorizes a local authority, as defined, to adopt a program to regulate sidewalk vendors if the program complies with specified standards. These standards include restricting the local authority from requiring a sidewalk vendor to operate within specific parts of the public right-of-way, except when that restriction is directly related to objective health, safety, or welfare concerns. A violation of these provisions is punishable only by an administrative fine, as specified. This bill would prohibit a local authority, except as otherwise required by federal law, from providing voluntary consent to an immigration enforcement agent to access, review, or obtain any of the local authority’s records that include personally identifiable information of any sidewalk vendors in the jurisdiction without a subpoena or judicial warrant. (Based on 04/07/2025 text)