AB-1471 • 2026

Resource and referral agencies.

Budget Children

Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor: Soria
Last action: 2026-02-02
Official status: From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary does not provide specific details on how roles and responsibilities during disasters are defined or what actions must be taken by agencies in non-disaster situations.

Resource and Referral Agencies

This law requires local childcare resource and referral agencies to assist childcare providers during disasters, including implementing roles and responsibilities outlined in disaster plans, upon appropriation by the Legislature.

What This Bill Does

Repeals existing provisions that required federal funds for local childcare resource and referral agencies to support their role in COVID-19 relief and recovery efforts.
Requires local childcare resource and referral agencies to assist childcare providers during disasters, including implementing roles and responsibilities outlined in disaster plans, upon appropriation by the Legislature.
Makes the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network responsible for implementing its own set of roles and responsibilities during disasters, upon appropriation by the Legislature.
The State Department of Social Services must work with these agencies to create rules about collecting data on disaster preparedness.

Who It Names or Affects

Local childcare resource and referral agencies
Childcare providers in California

Terms To Know

disaster plans: Plans that outline what to do during emergencies or disasters, like earthquakes or fires.
data collection and reporting requirements: Rules about gathering information and sharing it with the government about how well childcare providers are prepared for disasters.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill needs funding from the Legislature to be fully implemented.
It does not specify what happens if there is no disaster, only that agencies must prepare for them.

Bill History

2026-02-02 California Legislative Information
From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.
2026-01-31 California Legislative Information
Died pursuant to Art. IV, Sec. 10(c) of the Constitution.
2025-05-23 California Legislative Information
In committee: Held under submission.
2025-05-07 California Legislative Information
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
2025-04-30 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-04-01 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.
2025-03-28 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended.
2025-03-28 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on HUM. S.
2025-02-24 California Legislative Information
Read first time.
2025-02-22 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
2025-02-21 California Legislative Information
Introduced. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 1471, as amended, Soria.
Childcare providers.
Resource and referral agencies.
Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, establishes a system of childcare and development services for children up to 13 years of age. Existing law establishes childcare resource and referral programs to serve a defined geographic area and provide prescribed services. Among the services provided by these programs is the establishment of a referral process that responds to parental need for information and that makes referrals to licensed child daycare facilities, as specified.
Existing law requires federal funds allocated to local childcare resource and referral agencies to support their continued participation in COVID-19 relief and recovery to be used to strengthen their role in serving as intermediaries to develop new, and
support existing, childcare facilities and capacity and to streamline and improve data collection processes, as specified.
This bill would make technical, nonsubstantive changes to this provision.
This bill would repeal that provision and instead require, upon appropriation by Legislature, local childcare resource and referral agencies to take specified actions relating to assisting childcare providers during a disaster, including, among others, implementing certain roles and responsibilities assigned to them in specified disaster plans. The bill would also require, upon appropriation by the Legislature, the California Child Care Resource and Referral Network to implement the roles and
responsibilities assigned to it in those disaster plans. The bill would require the department, in consultation with local childcare resource and referral agencies, to establish data collection and reporting requirements relating to disasters and disaster preparedness for childcare providers.

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