First 5 LA
2015 Legislative Agenda
(updated June 9, 2015)
Bill #
Author
Description
Additional Information
Status
AB 47
McCarty
Requires all eligible children, who do not have access
to transitional kindergarten or the federal Head
Start Program, to have access to the State Preschool
Program the year before they enter kindergarten, if
their parents wish to enroll them, contingent upon
the appropriation of sufficient funding in the annual
Budget Act for that purpose (as amended 7/2/15)
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Potential to advance First 5 LA’s
priorities related to early learning.
Original bill language required CDE to
develop plan for expanding preschool
program. Since then, various
amendments were made related to
appropriating funding for preschool in
the state budget process.
As currently amended, bill requirements
would commence on January 1, 2017.
Supporters include The Advancement
Project, Children Now, Early Edge, L.A.
Chamber of Commerce and LAUP.
No known opposition.
Passed Senate
Education on
7/8 (6-1)
Potential to advance First 5 LA’s
priorities related to home visiting.
Supporters include Children Now,
Parents As Teachers, First 5 Association
and others.
No known opposition
Passed Health
Committee
hearing on 7/8
(vote tally not
available as of
this time).
Potential to advance First 5 LA’s
priorities related to early learning.
Supporters include Advancement Project,
California Alternative Payment Program
Association (CAPPA), California Child
Care Resource and Referral Network,
Child Care Alliance of Los Angeles, First
5 Santa Clara, Special Needs Network.
Passed
Assembly on
6/1. In Senate
Appropriations
on 7/13.
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AB 50
AB 74
Mullins
Calderon
Requires the State Department of Health Care
Services to develop and implement a plan to ensure
that evidence-based home visiting program are
offered and provided to Medi-Cal eligible pregnant
and parenting women. Bill would also require the
DHCS, in developing the plan, to prioritize the
identification of funding sources, other than General
Fund moneys, to fund evidence-based home visiting
program services (as amended 5/21/15)
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Makes a number of facilities, including child day care 
center, and family day care homes, subject to an
annual unannounced visit by the State Department
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of Social Services on and after July 1, 2018.
Bill also requires the department to conduct annual
unannounced visits to no less than 30% of facilities
on or before July 1, 2016, and no less than 40% of
those facilities on or before July 1, 2017 (as amended
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Bill #
Author
Description
Additional Information
Status
6/25/15)
AB 648
Low
Establishes the Virtual Dental Home (VDH) program 
to expand the virtual dental home model of
community-based delivery of dental care to the
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residents of this state who are in greatest need.
Authorizes the program administrator to encourage
development and expansion of the delivery of dental
health services in community clinics and school
programs.
AB
1321
Ting
Establishes the Nutrition Incentive Matching Grant
Program in the Office of Farm to Fork. Creates the
Nutrition Incentive Matching Grant Account in the
Farm to Fork Account to collect matching funds
received from federal grant programs and funds from
other public and private sources to provide grants
under the Nutrition Incentive Matching Grant
Program and to administer the Nutrition Incentive
Matching Grant Program.
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Removes the personal belief exemption from school
immunization law and requires the governing board
of a school district to notify parents or guardians of
school immunization rates.
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SB 277
Pan
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Potential to support one of First 5 LA’s
current investments.
Supporters include: California Dental
Association, The Children’s Partnership,
Children’s Defense Fund, Liberty Dental
Plan, Maternal and Child Health Access.
Passed
Assembly on
6/1. In Senate
Appropriations
on 7/13.
Potential to support one of First 5 LA’s
current investments.
Supporters include: Ecology Center
(sponsor) Roots of Change (sponsor),
California Food Policy Advocates, the
California Partnership, City of Santa
Monica, and others.
Passed Senate
Agriculture on
7/7 (4-1).
Referred to
Appropriations.
Although not directly aligned with the
four-point criteria approved by the
Commission earlier this year, the bill is
relevant to the general health of young
children in ECE settings. According to
CDC, with the growing number of
children in preschool programs,
outbreaks have occurred at earlier ages.
Supporters include: California Medical
Association, Tom Torlakson, American
Academy of Pediatrics, Children Now,
Children’s Defense Fund, First 5
California, and others.
Opposition includes the California Right
To Life Committee, Families For Early
Autism Treatment, National Autism
Signed by
Governor on
6/30
Bill #
Author
Description
Additional Information
Status
Association of California, and others.
ACR 77
Stone
Urges the Legislature to leverage existing efforts and
statutes to ensure an accountable, results-oriented,
and coordinated network of resources to provide
multidisciplinary early identification and
intervention services and supports to infants and
toddlers. Also urges Legislature to support and
promote community-driven efforts to coordinate
referrals and linkages between, and guide families
through the complexities of, the early identification
and intervention systems, through programs and
models such as Help Me Grow California.
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Related to First 5 LA’s priorities relating
to developmental screening.
Supporters include: First 5 Association
and Children Now
Assembly Floor
vote on 7/9 –
(UPDATE: Bill
passed; vote
tally not
available as of
this time)