Gov. Gavin Newsom signed five bills at Miguel Contreras Elementary School in Los Angeles that officials said are intended to limit immigration enforcement near schools, hospitals and other community sites and to require identifying information from federal agents.

Lawmakers and state officials at the event described the bills as a coordinated response to recent enforcement actions and said four take effect immediately while an anti-masking provision will go into effect in January 2026.

The package includes AB 49, described by Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi as the California Safe Haven Schools Act to keep immigration enforcement off school campuses and to prohibit sharing student data with federal immigration authorities. “Keep ICE out of our schools,” Muratsuchi said. Officials also identified SB 98 as a notification measure to inform families when immigration enforcement is in the area; SB 81 as protections for health-care provider settings; SB 805 as a prohibition on vigilante or nonidentified enforcement activity; and SB 627 as an anti-masking law that requires enforcement agents to identify themselves when conducting immigration operations, the governor said.

State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Thurmond said AB 49 will also bar sharing student data with federal immigration authorities and that the package includes a bill to notify families when immigration enforcement is operating nearby. Thurmond thanked authors and listed AB 49 and SB 98 among the measures he sponsored or supported.

Assemblymember Al Muratsuchi, who said he introduced AB 49, framed the measure as protecting students’ constitutional right to public education. Muratsuchi said that for “more than 40 years” federal practice kept schools off limits from immigration enforcement and added, “Keep ICE out of our schools.”

Senate Majority Leader Lena Gonzalez and other lawmakers credited collaboration across the Latino, AAPI and diversity caucuses in advancing the package. Mayor Karen Bass called the bills “legislative resistance” and said local and state actions were necessary to protect diverse communities; Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis cited local incidents and economic effects and said the county has worked on protocols to avoid violating patient privacy and HIPAA.

Newsom said four bills take effect immediately upon signature and that the anti-masking law will take effect in January 2026. He framed the package as an exercise of both legal and moral authority and said the state expects the measures to be tested in court. “We are pushing back,” he said, adding his office will use both formal authority and moral authority to defend the laws.

Officials described incidents that helped prompt the measures, including accounts that federal agents operated in unmarked vehicles and some agents masked their faces during enforcement activity, and cited instances in which students or community members were detained. Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis said that “over 4,004 immigrants in the Greater Los Angeles area” had been detained by ICE, a figure she gave at the event.

Legal and implementation questions remain. Newsom acknowledged the supremacy clause and said the laws contain an exemption for judicial orders or warrants; he also said the state expects federal litigation and will defend the measures in court. Officials declined to provide court- or case-level detail at the event.

What happened next: Newsom signed AB 49, SB 81, SB 98, SB 805 and SB 627 at the event; after the signatures officials took questions from the media about legal defensibility and coordination with other states.

Context: Speakers repeatedly framed the legislation as response to a change in federal enforcement priorities and as protection for mixed‑status families and immigrant students. State officials highlighted that an estimated one in five California students lives in a family with at least one undocumented parent and that roughly 11,000,000 immigrants live in California, figures cited at the event.

The governor and legislative leaders said they expect other states and jurisdictions to watch California’s approach. Newsom said the state will “test” these laws in the courts if necessary and emphasized the legislation’s immediate implementation for most measures.