CWA's 2027 Legislative Planning Session
Join fellow workforce board directors to shape CWA’s 2027 legislative agenda. With a new administration and a new legislative session starting in January, this is our chance to agree on what California’s local workforce boards will carry to Sacramento together.
Together we will:
- Review what members shared in the 2027 Legislative Priorities Survey
- Set CWA’s 2027 legislative and budget priorities
- Shape bill proposals for the coming session
- Build a legislative platform your county or city can adopt
- Strengthen how we work with legislators year-round
The session is the day before the Quarterly Board Meeting, so you can make one trip for both.
Please complete the survey by Friday, November 20 so we can bring your board’s priorities into the room.
Agenda
Time | Item | Lead |
8:30 | Arrivals, Breakfast and networking | All |
9:30 | Welcome and goals for the day. What we leave with, and how today feeds the 2027 session | Jaime, Hannah, Adam |
9:45 | Where we are. New administration, new legislators, the January budget, February bill introduction, and the May Revision | Cesar |
10:15 | What you told us. Questionnaire results: top challenges, bill ideas, funding problems, and issues to track | Isis |
10:45 | Break | |
11:00 | Setting 2027 priorities. Group exercise to narrow the list to 2–3 shared priorities | Isis, facilitated |
12:00 | Lunch | |
12:45 | Bill proposals and budget asks. Sort ideas into CWA-led bills, letters of support, and items to monitor; find champions by district and committee. Includes the AB 2300 reintroduction recommendation | Isis, Cesar |
1:45 | Building the 2027 platform. What county and city platforms already say, and draft CWA platform language boards can adopt | Adam |
2:15 | Break | |
2:25 | Continue 2027 platform. | Hannah |
2:50 | Next steps and close. Decisions, owners, and dates through the May Revision | Hannah |
3:00 | Adjourn |
Location
Town And Country 500 Hotel Circle North, San Diego, CA, 92108