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AB-1890 • 2026

County of Napa: farmworker housing: funding.

County of Napa: farmworker housing: funding.

Agriculture Budget Education Housing Labor
Passed Legislature

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

Sponsor
Aguiar-Curry
Last action
2026-03-25
Official status
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source does not provide specific details about what 'certain things' employers do with their workers to be prohibited from receiving funds, so this detail is omitted.

Napa County Farmworker Housing Funding

AB-1890 increases funding from $250,000 to $500,000 annually for housing migrant and non-migrant farmworkers in Napa County through matching funds.

What This Bill Does

  • Increases the amount of money that can be given each year as a match to help build or maintain housing for farmworkers in Napa County from $250,000 to $500,000.
  • Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to give this money only if the local housing authority shows it has enough local funds to support these projects.
  • Adds rules about not giving money to employers who do certain things with their workers.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Farmworkers and housing authorities in Napa County
  • The Department of Housing and Community Development

Terms To Know

Matching funds
Money given by the state to help pay for projects, but only if local groups also put up their own money.
Napa County Housing Authority
The group in charge of providing housing for people who work on farms in Napa County.

Limits and Unknowns

  • It is not clear when the bill will become active because it needs more funding from the state budget.
  • The bill only applies to farmworkers and housing projects in Napa County, not other places.

Bill History

  1. 2026-03-25 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  2. 2026-03-11 California Legislative Information

    Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

  3. 2026-03-10 California Legislative Information

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on H. & C.D. Read second time and amended.

  4. 2026-03-02 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

  5. 2026-02-13 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 15.

  6. 2026-02-12 California Legislative Information

    Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 1890, as amended, Aguiar-Curry.
County of Napa: farmworker housing: funding.
Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development, through its Office of Migrant Services, to assist in the development, construction, reconstruction, rehabilitation, or operation of migrant farm labor centers and authorizes the Director of Housing and Community Development to contract with school districts, housing authorities, health agencies, and other appropriate local public and private nonprofit agencies for the procurement or construction of housing or shelter and to obtain services for migratory agricultural workers.
Existing law establishes the Napa County Farmworker Centers Account to be administered by the department, as specified, to assist in the financing, maintenance, and operation of the Napa County Housing Authority’s Farmworker Centers for year-round use by migrant and nonmigrant farm labor employees.
Existing law requires the department to award, annually, up to $250,000 in matching funds to the Napa County Housing Authority upon demonstration that the Napa County Housing Authority is capable of continuing to effectively serve the housing needs of migrant or other farmworkers in the County of Napa and requires the Napa County Housing Authority, to be eligible for funding, to provide equal or greater funds from local sources. Existing law requires the department to use funds allocated from the Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund, as provided.
This bill would instead require the department to award, annually, up to $500,000 in matching funds to the Napa County Housing Authority upon demonstration that the Napa County Housing Authority is capable of continuing to effectively serve the housing needs of migrant or other farmworkers in the County of Napa.
The bill would require all funds
awarded under its provisions to comply with specified prohibitions against state funding, loans, grants, or other state subsidies for an employer that employs certain workers, as provided, and would require that employer to reimburse the state or state agency that provided the funding, as provided.
The bill would, instead of requiring the department to use specified funds allocated from the Building Homes and Jobs Trust Fund, provide that this bill is not operative until funding is appropriated by the Legislature in the Budget Act or any other measure for the purposes of the bill.
This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Napa.

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