CDF-CA CO-SPONSORED LEGISLATION

Comprehensive school safety plans: adult role on campus guidelines - Requires school districts to define the roles of adults on campus and encourages districts that apply for additional campus safety funds to explore alternative strategies to school safety. Learn more and take action»

CalWORKs Truency Double Penalty - Ends the truancy double penalty for poor school children and their families that are receiving CalWORKs benefits. Learn more and take action»

JUVENILE JUSTICE

Youth Community Incentives Act - Directs 75 percent of the future savings from the state's shrinking youth correctional facilities directly to counties  for the purposes of serving high-needs youth offenders locally, using best practices. 

Gangs: Statewide Database - Requires that a notification be sent to parents or guardians when a youth is enrolled into a statewide gang database.

Juveniles: Solitary Confinement - Prohibits incarcerated from being subject to solitary confinement unless the youth possess a substantial risk to the safety of fellow inmates and staff, and until all less restrictive methods have been exhausted.

Sentencing - Requires a sentencing court to review and reconsider the sentence of a person who has served 10 years and who was originally  sentenced to adult prision while under the age of 18.

SCHOOL DISCIPLINE

Public School Health Centers - Establishes the PROMISE program to provide resources to fund activities and services to directly address the mental health and related needs of students impacted by trauma.

AB 420
(Dickinson) 

Disruption and Defiance: Reducing Grounds for Harsh Discipline  - Restricts the use of suspension and expulsion for acts of disruption and defiance and encourages the use of other means of correction.

SB 744
(Lara) 

Involuntary Transfers - Revises the list of students eligible to be involuntarily transferred to community day schools and authorises a student to challenge the decision in juvenile court.

Student and Youth Bill of Rights - Declares that the Legislature recognizes the importance of engaging with young people to influence decisions that affect their quality of life and well-being, and serves as a framework to guide and inform the youth of the state in organizing and advocating policy issues on their own behalf.

CHILDREN'S HEALTH

SBX1 1
(Hernandez)
ABX1 1
(Perez)

Medi-Cal Expansion and Simplification - Expands Medi-Cal eligibility to low-income, childless adults and simplifies Medi-Cal eligibility rules as required by the Affordable Care Act.

SBX1 2
(Hernandez)
ABX1 2
(Pan) 

Health Individual Market Reform - Provides new consumer protections to prevent denials due to pre-existing conditions and charging a sick child higher premiums, and provide other crucial insurer oversight, as provided for in the federal Affordable Care Act.

HUMAN SERVICES

CalWORKS Eligibility Asset Limits - Excludes the value of one vehicle in the determination of eligibility for CalWORKs program.

CalWORKs Maximun Family Grant - Provide for the basic needs of infants born into low-income families by repealing the Maximum Family Grant (MFG) rule in the CalWORKS program

Young Parents in Foster Care - Ensures access to health care by prioritizing foster youth who are parents for subsidized child care, and directs the Department of Social Services to collect data and parenting and pregnant youth.

CHILD POVERTY

California Home and Jobs Act of 2013 - Impose a fee on the recording of every real estate instrument, paper, or notice to be used to fund affordable housing and administering housing programs.