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Announcing 2025 Legislative Priorities

  • drjennyespinoza
  • Apr 30
  • 2 min read

Updated: May 3



Back to the Start’s legislative priorities are grounded in upstream investments and policies that ensure all children have the opportunity to reach their full potential. We support evidence-based preventative solutions that promote healthy families and communities, rather costly punitive approaches that perpetuate trauma and harm. After extensive analysis and stakeholder engagement, we will be focusing our legislative advocacy efforts on the following bills for 2025.


Public Safety and Justice

AB 1195 (QUIRK-SILVA): INCARCERATED PARENT/CHILD VISITATION RIGHTS Strengthens visitation rights between children and their incarcerated parents to promote family stability, support, and reunification. County jails must facilitate these visits, and child welfare agencies must track and report visit information to the court.


AB 1376 (BONTA): END ENDLESS JUVENILE PROBATION Mandates that probation conditions must be tailored, developmentally appropriate, and reasonable to each child. Limits the length of juvenile probation to six months or less, with possible 6-month extension if proven to be of the youth’s best interest. 

Education

AB 1230 (BONTA): SCHOOL EXPULSION PLAN REFORM

Strengthens requirements to ensure that expelled students — some of California’s most vulnerable — receive the support they need to successfully return to school. Requires plans to be developed by a team of educators, tailored to the student’s needs, and focused on addressing the behavior that led to expulsion.

SB 48 (GONZALEZ): SAFE ACCESS TO SCHOOLS Provides protections for students and families to attend school safely by restricting local educational agencies from granting immigration enforcement officers access to school grounds if not in possession of a valid judicial warrant.

Health

AB 29 (ARAMBULA): Adverse Childhood Experiences trauma screenings

Expands Medi-Cal reimbursement eligibility for Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) trauma screenings by including community health workers (CHWs) and doulas if they are enrolled Medi-Cal providers. Requires clinical referrals, as appropriate, based on screenings.

SB 411 (PEREZ): STOP CHILD HUNGER ACT OF 2025 Addresses the gaps in school meal access by creating an accessible and secure year-round child nutrition safety net program.


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