AB 2500 California Assembly · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Immigration services: immigration bonds.

Summary

Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services, subject to an appropriation, to provide grants to qualified nonprofit organizations through contracts, in order to provide persons with certain immigration-related legal services, including, among other things, services to obtain other immigration remedies and benefits. Existing law defines immigration benefits as including advanced parole, employment authorization documents, and lawful Permanent Resident Card renewal. This bill would expand the meaning of immigration benefits for these purposes to also include assistance with immigration bonds.

Issues: ✓ Immigration

Bill status in committee 1 of 4 stages cleared

Introduction

Feb 2026

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Feb 20, 2026 Last action Apr 14, 2026

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What changed between versions

02/20/26 - Introduced → AB2500 · 2 edits

MINOR

The bill text content is substantively identical between the two versions. The changes are entirely technical and presentational: the first version uses a traditional legislative document format with line numbers and page markers, while the second version is a reformatted web-based presentation that includes website navigation elements (links to home, FAQ, search, etc.) and removes the line-number annotations.

TECHNICAL

The bill was reformatted from a traditional legislative document layout (with line numbers, page markers, and centered headers) to a web-based presentation format that includes site navigation elements such as 'skip to content,' 'home,' 'accessibility,' 'FAQ,' 'feedback,' 'sitemap,' 'login,' and search fields.

The session header was changed from lowercase 'california legislature-2025-26 regular session' to uppercase 'CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE- 2025-2026 REGULAR SESSION' with expanded year notation.

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Committee

Apr 14, 2026

Lower · Passed

In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

lower

Mar 23, 2026

Committee

Referred to Coms. on HUM. S. and JUD.

lower

Feb 21, 2026

Lower · Passed

From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

lower

1 primary · 0 co-sponsors