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Committee backs codifying immigration legal fellowship to expand counsel in underserved regions
Senate Human Services Committee · April 20, 2026
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Summary
SB 1194 would codify an Immigration Legal Fellowship that has placed fellows in underserved counties and provided thousands of removal-defense services; the committee passed the bill to Appropriations with a recorded 3-1 vote.
Senator Caballero presented SB 1194 to codify the Immigration Legal Fellowship, a pilot project begun in 2019 that places attorneys in underserved parts of California to expand removal-defense capacity. The author…
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