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Education-Related Legislation

Each year, the California legislature considers thousands of new bills. To assist our community in staying informed about education-related bills currently under discussion in either the Senate or the Assembly, we provide a summary below. These are just a few of the more than 2,300 bills introduced in the 2025 legislative calendar. 

Clovis Unified School District's 2024 Legislative Platform

The Clovis Unified School District works with the Governor’s administration, state agencies, and its legislative representatives to support policies and legislative action that supports the district’s commitment to providing every student a world-class education. The district believes legislative decisions should honor a continued focus on local control, where educators, parents, and community members are fully engaged in setting priorities for educational programs and services, as well as maintaining the health and safety of students and staff.

 

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Legislative Calendar

2025 Legislative Calendar Milestones for New Legislation
February 21—Bill introduction deadline
May 2—Policy committee deadline for fiscal bills introduced in their house
May 9 – Policy committee deadline for non-fiscal bills introduced in their house
June 6—Deadline for each house to pass bills introduced in that house to the other house
July 18—Policy committee deadline
July 18- August 18 – Summer Recess (begins after adjournment and so long as Budget Bill has been passed)
September 12—Last day for each house to send bills to the Governor
October 12—Last day for Governor to sign or veto bills

The district’s highest legislative priorities for the 2025-26 fiscal year, include:

  • The Clovis Unified School District strongly supports the protection of local control for public schools in California. Locally elected school boards and the district’s governance team are charged with implementing an educational program that serves the unique interests and priorities of the community while abiding by the basic standards that are part of current law. We oppose legislative efforts that erode local control and interfere with the rights of the community and parents to be fully engaged in the policy and fiscal decision-making process at the school district level. In our school district, we firmly believe that decision-making at the level closest to those served by the government is not just important, but critical to ensuring effective and responsive education policies. Fiscal, instructional and operational issues related to local public schools and the interest of our public school students ought to be subject to the governance of local school boards and family-based values should not be compromised.

  • Average Daily Attendance (ADA) Loss Protections

    The Governor and Legislature have demonstrated an ongoing commitment to base funding for education, particularly in light of the extraordinary efforts made to fund the full COLA for PK-12 education the last several years. Beyond just an inflation allowance, the base of LCFF and other PK-12 programs essentially stand still without allocations above that basic level.  Over the past several years, the Governor and Legislature have acknowledged this by ensuring that funding was provided to base funding beyond COLA but is is critical to address the formula as every time the base increases so does the supplemental and concentration dollars that are allocated. The LCFF formula and the annual allocations for TK-12 schools have become increasingly restrictive given that increased dollars continue to be funded for categorical purposes replete with restrictions, reporting requirements and strings attached. Clovis Unified is alternatively interested in supporting funding   that builds the base of local school district funding, maximizing local discretion and helping build long-term fiscal stability.

    Local educational programs that are comprehensive and equitable cannot exist without the ongoing support of adequate state funds. The school district projects a fiscal cliff in the coming years as State and Federal one-time funds become exhausted and we continue to have challenges with the fiscal impacts due to fluctuations of student enrollment and rapidly growing costs (e.g., pensions, healthcare, special education, transportation, and unemployment insurance). Looking for ways to increase LCFF base funding beyond the COLA augmentation will be essential to sustaining programs that are critical to student success and well-being.

    As policy makers consider potential reforms to the LCFF formula, it is important to note an inherent flaw in that the formula that uses student demographic characteristics at a district-wide level rather than school-site level. By modifying the funding formula to look at each school site’s unduplicated percentage of English learners, poverty level, and foster youth student count, the formula will allow funding to be more targeted and provide for equitable distribution of resources. Different schools often have unique needs, and site-level funding ensures that funds are allocated based on those specific requirements. This approach can help address achievement gaps and provide extra support to schools that serve disadvantaged students.

    The current year budget clearly had revenue challenges and despite those challenges, the Legislature and Governor respected the Proposition 98 minimum guarantee for schools.  Among the serious fiscal difficulties that remain unaddressed is the importance of revisiting the impacts of ADA loss and declining enrollment. While the assistance with ADA loss and changes to declining enrollment funding were adjusted in the aftermath of the COVID crisis, ADA loss and especially declining enrollment have become serious threats to the fiscal stability of local school districts. Clovis Unified School District supports additional state level ADA loss protection.

    During the past legislative session, enrollment-based funding has been considered in legislation by the state legislature as an alternative to ADA-based funding.  The Clovis Unified School District has not supported this legislation and continues to oppose enrollment-based funding which amounts to simply shifting resources from some districts to others.  Our district continues to support the Average Daily Attendance Method as districts have a responsibility to promote positive attendance to ensure the opportunities to educate our students.

    Increase Base Funding for Education

    The Governor and Legislature have demonstrated an ongoing commitment to base funding for education, particularly in light of the extraordinary efforts made to fund the full COLA for PK-12 education the last several years. Beyond just an inflation allowance, the base of LCFF and other PK-12 programs essentially stand still without allocations above that basic level.  Over the past several years, the Governor and Legislature have acknowledged this by ensuring that funding was provided to base funding beyond COLA but is is critical to address the formula as every time the base increases so does the supplemental and concentration dollars that are allocated. The LCFF formula and the annual allocations for TK-12 schools have become increasingly restrictive given that increased dollars continue to be funded for categorical purposes replete with restrictions, reporting requirements and strings attached. Clovis Unified is alternatively interested in supporting funding   that builds the base of local school district funding, maximizing local discretion and helping build long-term fiscal stability.

    Local educational programs that are comprehensive and equitable cannot exist without the ongoing support of adequate state funds. The school district projects a fiscal cliff in the coming years as State and Federal one-time funds become exhausted and we continue to have challenges with the fiscal impacts due to fluctuations of student enrollment and rapidly growing costs (e.g., pensions, healthcare, special education, transportation, and unemployment insurance). Looking for ways to increase LCFF base funding beyond the COLA augmentation will be essential to sustaining programs that are critical to student success and well-being.

    As policy makers consider potential reforms to the LCFF formula, it is important to note an inherent flaw in that the formula that uses student demographic characteristics at a district-wide level rather than school-site level. By modifying the funding formula to look at each school site’s unduplicated percentage of English learners, poverty level, and foster youth student count, the formula will allow funding to be more targeted and provide for equitable distribution of resources. Different schools often have unique needs, and site-level funding ensures that funds are allocated based on those specific requirements. This approach can help address achievement gaps and provide extra support to schools that serve disadvantaged students.

     

  • The huge unfunded mandates in special education, primarily from the Federal government but also state requirements are a serious ongoing issue for Clovis Unified School District. Clovis Unified School District is committed to protecting the civil rights and educational opportunities of students with disabilities, but continued efforts to seek funding support from the state is vitally important. Clovis Unified School District supports full funding of special education programs through state and federal resources, given that local districts currently carry the majority of the costs to ensure all students with disabilities have access to the educational services and opportunities they deserve. The district urges the state to make continued investments in special education.

  • We recognize the pivotal role that school facilities play in shaping the educational experiences of our students. We firmly believe that every child deserves access to a safe, modern, and inspiring learning environment that fosters growth, innovation, and academic excellence. We know that investing in school facilities is an investment in the future of our community and our nation. We commit to securing equitable funding for school facilities across Clovis Unified. Regardless of a student's background or circumstances, they should have the same access to state-of-the-art facilities that enhance their learning journey. We support robust and sustainable funding mechanisms that ensure our schools have the resources they need to create environments conducive to learning. Recognizing the rising costs associated with school construction and modernization, we advocate for a forward-thinking funding formula. This formula should accurately address the increasing expenses and complexities of maintaining, renovating, and building new school facilities. By acknowledging the cost escalation, we can allocate funds more effectively and ensure that every dollar invested yields the greatest impact on student learning and development.

  • The district supports the long-overdue funding for school transportation programs and advocates for progress in raising the percentage of covered costs from 60 percent to 100 percent phased in over a multi-year period.

    Clovis Unified supports funding for cleaner, fuel-efficient buses that are not restricted to electric bus technology. The broad investments in electric school bus technology benefits only some school districts where route distance and topography are a unique fit. The limitations on driving distance on a single charge and the overall technology of electric school buses have not yet achieved a capacity to serve all districts including Clovis Unified. Funding for school bus infrastructure that is increasingly environmentally friendly should not be limited to electric buses.

  • Only in recent years has California begun to reverse the nearly decade-long disinvestment in CTE. Clovis Unified School District is implementing ambitious and successful CTE programs but needs the state to increase its commitment to these educational programs that are directly linked to job creation and our regional economic future. Clovis Unified School District supports actions to provide ongoing increased support to career technical education programs.

  • The state’s effort to bring solvency to the two large public employee pension systems; the California Public Employees Retirement System and the California Teachers Retirement System placed a huge financial costs on local districts that by itself, outstrips any gains made from the annual inflation adjustments made by the state for schools. Recognizing this unfair burden, the Governor and Legislature allocated funding to assist districts in three consecutive years. Since that time, there has not been any dedicated source of assistance from the State to help school districts shoulder the unfunded burden of pension cost increases. Clovis Unified School District supports protecting the retirement benefits of its employees, past and present, by addressing the unfunded obligation that is generating volatility and strain for the budgets of local educational agencies around the state.

    Increasing CalSTRS and CalPERS state mandated pension costs divert resources away from instruction and student supports. Clovis Unified School District supports the state providing additional funding to both pension systems on behalf of school employers to mitigate growing obligations. The district urges the Governor and Legislature to allocate State General Fund resources to mitigate the increased costs of PERS and STRS on public school districts.  Clovis Unified believes the rapid debt paydown on pensions should be adjusted before any future reductions to services are considered.

  • The Governor and state lawmakers made significant changes to the way independent study is implemented in schools as a result of utilizing the approach as the exclusive method of engaging students in distance learning during the COVID pandemic. The new statutes have extensive requirements and involve different types of obligations for short-term independent study and long-term independent study. Given that impacts to overall student attendance in school has been affected in ways that appear to be ongoing, the use of independent study can be an important method of addressing challenges with serving students who are absent. That said, the changes in statute that happened as a result of COVID are complicated and have additionally had less focus on the original purpose and function of independent study. The Clovis Unified School District supports the greatest possible flexibility to local school agencies in implementing both short-term and long-term independent study in order to maximize services to students and address the impacts to ADA loss that these programs can mitigate.

  • Even today, post-pandemic challenges in staffing continue to have long-lasting negative impacts to the certificated and classified staffing of the district. Identifying opportunities to hire highly qualified teachers and classified staff is of the highest importance as it fundamentally impacts the quality of education for students. Clovis Unified School District supports policies that maximize the authority and flexibility of school boards to attract and retain highly qualified staff. The district also supports restoring flexibility in credentialing requirements for the hiring of new teachers and options to retain teaching talent longer, even after retirement, as tools to confront the teacher shortage.

Summary of Bills

Proposed bills are loosely categorized by topic and include the bill number, the last name of the member authoring the bill, and a short summary of the bill.

  • AB 1360 Arambula English learners: reclassification: English language proficiency assessment. Existing law requires each school district that has one or more pupils who are English learners, and, to the extent required by federal law, each county office of education and each charter school, to assess the English language development of each pupil in order to determine the pupil’s level of proficiency, as specified. Existing law requires the State Department of Education, with the approval of the State Board of Education, to establish procedures for conducting the assessment and for the reclassification of a pupil from English learner to English proficient. Existing law requires those reclassification procedures to use multiple criteria in determining whether to reclassify a pupil as proficient in English, including, among other things, an assessment of language proficiency using the English language development test that is developed or acquired by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, as provided. This bill would, commencing July 1, 2026, require the reclassification procedures developed by the department to authorize an English learner to be reclassified if the English learner achieves an English Learner Progress Indicator score of 3H or above on the English Language Proficiency Assessments for California and the English learner also satisfies the other multiple measures criteria developed by the department, as specified. To the extent this bill would impose additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
    AB 862 Castillo California School Dashboard: local control and accountability plans: college and career pathway data. Current law requires the State Department of Education, in collaboration with, and subject to the approval of, the executive director of the State Board of Education, to develop and maintain the California School Dashboard, a web-based system for publicly reporting performance data on the state and local indicators included in the evaluation rubrics. The department, pursuant to the requirement of developing the California School Dashboard, has included as one of several state indicators, the College/Career Indicator (CCI), which represents the percentage of high school graduates who are prepared for college or a career. This bill would require the state board to, on or before July 1, 2027, include for purposes of the percentage of pupils who intend to enroll in college and the percentage of pupils who intend to enter or be employed through a registered apprenticeship program, skilled trade, or industry-aligned career pathway, as provided.
    AB 908 Solache Local control and accountability plans: state priorities: LGBTQ+ pupil education and well-being. Current law requires the governing board of each school district and county board of education to adopt a local control and accountability plan (LCAP) and to update its LCAP before July 1 of each year. Current law requires an LCAP to include, among other things, a description of the annual goals to be achieved for each state priority, as specified, for all pupils and certain subgroups of pupils. This bill would add, as an additional state priority for purposes of the local control and accountability plan, the implementation of supportive policies and initiatives to address LGBTQ+ pupil education and well-being, as provided.
    SB 721 Dahle Pupil attendance: excused absences: career technical education. Existing law, notwithstanding the requirement that each person between 6 and 18 years of age who is not otherwise exempted is subject to compulsory full-time education, requires a pupil to be excused from school for specified types of absences, including, among others, if the absence was due to the pupil’s illness. This bill would include as another type of required excused absence an absence that is for the purpose of a middle school or high school pupil participating in career technical education enhancement, as defined, provided that the pupil notifies the school ahead of the absence. The bill would require a middle school or high school pupil who is absent from school to engage in career technical education enhancement to be excused for only one schoolday-long absence per school year. The bill would also authorize a middle school or high school pupil who is absent from school to engage in career technical education enhancement to be permitted additional excused absences in the discretion of a school administrator, as provided. To the extent that this bill would impose additional duties on local educational entities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
    SB 745 Ochoa Bogh High school graduation requirements: American government and civics: curriculum guide: State Seal of Civic Engagement. High School graduation requirements include, among others, the completion of 3 courses in social studies, including a one-semester course in American government and civics. This bill would require, commencing with pupils graduating in the 2032–33 school year, the course in American government and civics to instead be a one-year course unless the governing board or body of a school district, county office of education, or charter school, as applicable, through a formal action at a publicly noticed meeting, elects to require only a one-semester course in American government and civics. To the extent the bill would impose additional duties on local educational agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

  • AB 281 Gallagher Comprehensive sexual health education and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention education. Would require a school district, as defined, to allow a pupil’s parent or guardian to inspect any written or audiovisual educational material used in comprehensive sexual health education and HIV prevention education and would authorize a parent or guardian to make copies of any written educational material that will be distributed to pupils, if it is not copyrighted and has been or will be presented by an outside consultant or guest speaker. The bill would authorize a school to charge up to $0.10 per page if a parent or guardian elects to make copies of this written educational material. The bill would also require a school district to inform parents and guardians of their right to make these copies and of the training in comprehensive sexual health education and HIV prevention education of each outside consultant or guest speaker providing this instruction. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
    AB 296 Davies Apprenticeship fairs. Current law provides for the establishment of apprenticeship programs in various trades, to be approved by the Chief of the Division of Apprenticeship Standards within the Department of Industrial Relations in any trade in the state or in a city or trade area whenever the apprentice training needs justify the establishment. Current law requires a school district or school to notify each apprenticeship program in the same county as the school district or school of a career or college fair it is planning to hold, as specified. Current law provides that the Legislature encourages school districts and schools to host apprenticeship fair events, as provided. This bill would delete the above-specified provision regarding the Legislature’s encouragement to school districts and schools and would, instead, require school districts and schools to host at least one apprenticeship fair event during each school year, as specified.
    AB 347 Kalra Pupil instruction: animal dissection. Current law authorizes a pupil with a moral objection to dissecting or otherwise harming or destroying an animal to refrain from participation in an educational project that involves the harmful or destructive use of animals. Current law authorizes, if the pupil chooses to refrain and a teacher believes that an adequate alternative education project is possible, the teacher to work with the pupil to develop and agree upon an alternative education project in order to obtain the knowledge, information, or experience required by the course of study in question. Current law requires each teacher teaching a course that utilizes live or dead animals or animal parts to inform the pupils of their rights pursuant to these provisions. Current law applies these provisions to all levels of instruction in all public schools operating programs in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Current law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and implement a system of complaint processing, known as the Uniform Complaint Procedures, for specified educational programs. This bill, if a pupil chooses to refrain from participation in an assessment, education project, or test involving the dissection of animals, would require a teacher to provide an alternative assessment, education project, or test. The bill would prohibit a pupil’s grades from being impacted as a means of penalizing the pupil for exercising their rights concerning dissection of animals. The bill would require a teacher to provide, at a pupil’s request, any sourcing information provided by the vendor or provider of the animals and information about the chemicals used to preserve the animals for dissection to which the pupil may be exposed. The bill would require a teacher, or a public school on behalf of the teacher, to provide written notice of the pupils’ rights that includes specified information, including, among other things, the above-described rights and the complaint procedures described below. The bill would require, by November 1, 2026, the State Department of Education to develop a template that a teacher, or a public school on behalf of the teacher, would be authorized to use to provide this written notice and to make the template available on its internet website.
    AB 600 Castillo Pupil instruction: transgender concepts: opt out. Current law requires instruction of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and grades 7 to 12, inclusive, in social sciences to include, among other things, the early history of California and a study of the role and contributions of people of all genders, Native Americans, African Americans, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, European Americans, LGBTQ+ Americans, persons with disabilities, and members of other ethnic, cultural, religious, and socioeconomic status groups, to the economic, political, and social development of California and the United States of America, with particular emphasis on portraying the role of these groups in contemporary society. If any part of a school’s instruction in health conflicts with the religious training and beliefs of a parent or guardian of a pupil, current law requires the pupil, upon written request of the parent or guardian, to be excused from the part of the instruction that conflicts with the religious training and beliefs. This bill, notwithstanding any other law and upon the written request of a pupil’s parent or guardian, would require the pupil to be excused from, and would prohibit the pupil from participating in, (1) any part of a public school’s curricula, instructions, lessons, presentations, or assemblies discussing, involving, or referencing transgender concepts, as defined, and (2) any anonymous, voluntary, and confidential tests, questionnaires, or surveys discussing, involving, or referencing transgender concepts. The bill would prohibit a school district, county office of education, or charter school from subjecting a pupil to any disciplinary action, academic penalty, or other sanction for being excused from participation.
    AB 887 Berman Pupil instruction: high schools: computer science courses: implementation guide. Current law requires the adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer courses in specified areas of study, including, among others, science and mathematics. This bill would require the governing board of each school district, and the governing body of each charter school, maintaining any of grades 9 to 12, inclusive, by January 1, 2027, to (A) adopt a plan at a regularly scheduled public meeting to offer at least one course in computer science in each of its high schools in accordance with a specified timeline, (B) post the plan to its internet website, and (C) review, on or before May 31, 2027, and annually thereafter, the plan at a regularly scheduled public meeting and report to the public on the plan’s implementation, as provided. The bill would require school districts and charter schools to describe in the adopted plan their planned efforts to increase the computer science course enrollment of female pupils, pupils with disabilities, pupils who belong to ethnic and racial groups, and pupils eligible for free or reduced-priced meals that are underrepresented in the field of computer science. By imposing additional duties on school districts and charter schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
    SB 438 Cabaldon School attendance: College and Career Access Pathways partnerships. Current law authorizes the governing board of a community college district to enter into a College and Career Access Pathways (CCAP) partnership with the governing board of a school district or a county office of education, or the governing body of a charter school, as provided. Current law provides that the minimum schoolday in any high school is 240 minutes, except as provided, including that a day of attendance for a pupil enrolled in grades 11 and 12 at an early college high school or middle college high school is 180 minutes of attendance if the pupil is also enrolled in a community college, classes of the California State University, or classes of the University of California, as specified. This bill would additionally reduce the 240-minute minimum schoolday to instead be 180 minutes of attendance for a pupil enrolled under a CCAP partnership if the pupil is also enrolled in a community college, as specified.
    SB 510 Richardson Pupil instruction: racial disparities and historical injustices. Current law requires instruction in social sciences to include, among other things, the early history of California and a study of the role and contributions of people of all genders, Native Americans, African Americans, Latino Americans, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, European Americans, LGBTQ+ Americans, persons with disabilities, and members of other ethnic, cultural, religious, and socioeconomic status groups, to the economic, political, and social development of California and the United States of America, with particular emphasis on portraying the role of these groups in contemporary society. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation that would ensure that all public school pupils receive a complete and accurate education regarding racial disparities and historical injustices, as provided.
    SB 531 Rubio  Course of study: mental health education. Current law requires the adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, to include certain areas of study, including, among others, health. Current law requires the adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to offer courses in specified areas of study, including, among others, English, social sciences, and mathematics. This bill, with respect to the adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, would require the health area of study to also include mental health education, as provided. The bill, with respect to the adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, would add mental health education, as provided, to the adopted course of study.
    SB 584 Limón Pupil instruction: civic engagement. Current law requires instruction in social sciences to provide a foundation for understanding, among other things, the history, resources, development, and government of California and the United States of America. This bill, with respect to both of the above-referenced adopted courses of study, would require instruction in social sciences to also include civic engagement experiences with governmental institutions. To the extent that this bill would create new duties for local educational agencies or local officials, it would constitute a state-mandated local program.
    SB 612 Valladares Pupil instruction: high school graduation requirements: career technical education. Existing law requires a pupil to complete designated coursework while in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, in order to receive a diploma of graduation from high school. The coursework requirements include, among others, the completion of one course in visual or performing arts, foreign language, or career technical education. Existing law eliminates the authorization for career technical education to count toward that graduation requirement on July 1, 2027, or upon the occurrence of a specified event relating to career technical education requirements of the University of California and the California State University, whichever occurs earlier, as specified. This bill, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature for this purpose, would delete the above-described authorization and instead would indefinitely require, commencing with pupils graduating in the 2031–32 school year, the completion of a separate, stand-alone one-semester course in career technical education, that is prohibited from being combined with any other course, as a high school graduation requirement. The bill, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature for this purpose, would require school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools with pupil in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, to, commencing with the 2027–28 school year, offer a separate, stand-alone one-semester course in career technical education, that is prohibited from being combined with any other course. To the extent that the bill imposes new duties on school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
    SB 845 Pérez Pupil instruction: career technical education, career education, and apprenticeships. (1)Existing law requires any entity that has a contract with a school district, county office of education, or charter school to ensure that any employee who interacts with pupils, outside of the immediate supervision and control of the pupil’s parent or guardian or a school employee, has a valid criminal records summary, as specified. Existing law exempts an employee of any entity that has a contract with a local educational agency, and that offers work experience opportunities for pupils or workplace placements as part of a pupil’s individualized education program, from the requirement to have a valid criminal records summary if certain requirements are met, including, if the pupil participates in an independent study program provided by the contractor under parental supervision and control, the local educational agency to either verify a criminal records summary of employees of the contractor who interact with the pupil or receive parental consent that acknowledges that the contractor does not have a criminal records summary of the employees. This bill would limit the requirement to obtain a criminal records summary of employees of contractors to those employees who supervise, mentor, or provide direct guidance or instruction to pupils, instead of any employee of a contractor who interacts with pupils, pursuant to the above-described provisions. For purposes of those requirements, the bill would require the state special schools to comply to the same extent as school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
    AB 1428 Muratsuchi California Affordable Childcare Act. Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, establishes a system of childcare and development services for children up to 13 years of age and their parents, including a full range of supervision, health, and support services through full- and part-time programs. Existing law sets forth the purposes of the act, which include, among other things, the provision of a comprehensive, coordinated, and cost-effective system of childcare and development services for children and their parents. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to establish the California Affordable Childcare Act.
    AB 753 Garcia Childcare: facility licensure: teacher requirements. The Child Care and Development Services Act and the Early Education Act authorize a person to serve in an instructional capacity in a childcare and development program or a preschool program if they possess a current credential issued by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing authorizing teaching service in elementary school or a single-subject credential in home economics, and 12 units in early childhood education or child development, or both, or 2 years’ experience in early childhood education or a childcare and development program. This bill would, notwithstanding those provisions, commencing July 1, 2026, require a California state preschool program or a childcare and development program to allow 2 years from an individual’s date of hire as a teacher in one of those programs to pursue necessary credentials or complete additional coursework to meet the requirements of their position if certain conditions are met, including, among others, that no more than one teacher per classroom is allowed to work toward their credential or complete additional coursework pursuant to this provision. The bill would make these provisions inoperative on July 1, 2029.

  • AB 1454 Rivas School facilities: heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning systems. Existing law requires a covered school, defined as a school district, a county office of education, a charter school, a private school, the California Community Colleges, or the California State University, and requests the University of California, to ensure that facilities have heating, ventilation, and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems that meet specified minimum ventilation rate requirements, unless the existing HVAC system is not capable of safely and efficiently providing the minimum ventilation rate, in which case its HVAC system meets the minimum ventilation rates in effect at the time the building permit for installation of that HVAC system was issued. Existing law also requires a covered school, and requests the University of California, to install filtration that achieves specified minimum efficiency reporting values (MERV) levels, determined by the school to be feasible with the existing HVAC system, as provided. This bill would require each school district, county office of education, and charter school to submit an annual inventory of their HVAC systems to the State Department of Education, including a description of any modifications made pursuant to the above-described provisions. By imposing new duties on local educational agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

  • AB 1084 Zbur Change of name and gender and sex identifier. Existing law establishes procedures for an adult petitioner to obtain a court order for a change of name to conform to the petitioner’s gender identity. Existing law requires the court to make an order to show cause with regard to the petition and a process for persons interested to make known any objection to the change of name by filing a written objection within six weeks of the making of the order. Existing law requires, in the case of a conforming name change petition for a minor that does not include the signatures of both living parents, the petition and the order to show cause to be served as prescribed on the nonsigning parent within 30 days of the order. This bill would eliminate the mechanism to file an objection to an adult petitioner’s change of name to conform to the petitioner’s name to the petitioner’s gender identity. The bill would require the court to enter an order granting the petition without a hearing within two weeks of the petition’s filing, as specified. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
    AB 1147 Hoover School districts: reorganization: State Department of Education approval process. Current law provides that an action to reorganize school districts means either an action to form a new school district, as provided, or an action to transfer territory, including the transfer of all or part of an existing school district to another school district. Existing law requires an action to reorganize one or more school districts to be initiated upon the filing of a petition, signed by any of 4 specified groups, with the county superintendent of schools. Current law requires the county superintendent of schools, within 30 days, to examine the petition and, if they find it to be sufficient and signed as required by law, to transmit the petition simultaneously to the county committee on school district organization and to the State Board of Education. Current law requires the county committee, within 60 days, to hold one or more public hearings, as specified, and within 120 days of the first public hearing, to approve or disapprove the petition for the transfer of territory, as provided. If the county committee approves the petition, existing law requires the county commission to notify the county superintendent of schools and current law requires the county superintendent of schools to call an election in the territory of the affected districts, except, in certain circumstances, the petition takes effect upon notification to the board of supervisors of the county without an election, as provided. Current law requires the state board to establish minimum standards for it to apply in approving or disapproving petitions and proposals for the formation or reorganization of school districts, and authorizes the state board to approve a reorganization proposal if the state board has determined, with respect to the proposal and the resulting school districts, that specified conditions are substantially met. Current law requires the secretary of the state board to give notice of the approval to the appropriate county superintendent of schools, and requires the county superintendent of schools, within 35 days, to call an election, as specified. This bill, separate from the reorganization provisions described above, would authorize the State Department of Education to transfer territory from one school district to another school district if (1) at least 95% of a city is contained within the boundaries of a single school district, (2) there are no school facilities located within the territory being transferred, and (3) the city council has voted by a majority vote to petition the department have all of the territory within its city boundaries to be contained within a single school district.
    AB 1230 Bonta Pupil discipline: expulsions: procedures. Current law authorizes the governing board of a school district to order a pupil expelled upon finding that the pupil committed one or more of a specified act, as provided. Existing law requires an expulsion order to remain in effect until the governing board orders the readmission of a pupil and requires the governing board to recommend a plan of rehabilitation for the pupil at the time of the expulsion order that may include recommendations for, among other things, improved academic performance, tutoring, or counseling. Current law requires the governing board of each school district to adopt rules and regulations establishing a procedure for the filing and processing of requests for readmission and the process for the required review of all expelled pupils for readmission. Current law requires the governing board, upon completion of the readmission process, to readmit the pupil unless the governing board makes a finding that the pupil has not met the conditions of the rehabilitation plan or continues to pose a danger to campus safety or to other pupils or employees of the school district. Current law requires each county superintendent of schools in counties that operate community schools, in conjunction with superintendents of school districts within the county, to develop a plan for providing education services to all expelled pupils in that county, as provided. Current law requires the plan to enumerate existing educational alternatives for expelled pupils, identify gaps in educational services to expelled pupils, and strategies for filling those service gaps. Current law requires each school district to maintain specified data related to pupil expulsions, including, among other things, the number of pupils recommended for expulsion. This bill would require a plan of rehabilitation to be developed by a team of specified educators, be tailored to the individual pupil’s needs, and address the pupil’s behavior that led to the expulsion. The bill would require the governing board of a school district to (1) assist the pupil in locating opportunities accessible to the pupil that are necessary to complete the requirements of a plan for rehabilitation, as provided, and (2) as part of the process for a required review, indicate whether or not the pupil had access to the necessary resources to complete their rehabilitation plan. The bill would prohibit the governing board from requiring the pupil or the pupil’s parent or guardian to pay for any costs necessary to complete a plan of rehabilitation and would prohibit an expelled pupil from being denied readmission due to financial or transportation barriers or a lack of viable opportunities to complete a term of the rehabilitation plan.
    AB 1369 Ramos Pupil rights: school graduation ceremonies and related events: adornments. Existing law authorizes a pupil to wear traditional tribal regalia or recognized objects of religious or cultural significance as an adornment, as defined, at school graduation ceremonies. Existing law prohibits that authorization from limiting a local educational agency’s discretion and authority to prohibit an item that is likely to cause a substantial disruption of, or material interference with, the ceremony. This bill would extend a pupil’s authorization to wear an adornment to school events that are related to graduation. The bill would clarify that what constitutes traditional regalia or recognized objects of religious or cultural significance is to be determined by the pupil and the pupil’s family. The bill would prohibit a local educational agency from requiring (1) a preapproval process for a pupil to exercise their rights to wear an adornment and (2) a pupil to wear a cap if the cap is incompatible with the adornment.
    AB 1401 Patterson Pupil records: parental access. Existing law provides that parents and guardians of children enrolled in public schools have the right and should have the opportunity, as mutually supportive and respectful partners in the education of their children within the public schools, to be informed by the school, and to participate in the education of their children, as specified, to include, among other things, having access to the school records of their child. This bill would expressly provide in that latter provision that school records include both official and unofficial school records. The bill also would delete an obsolete reference.
    AB 259 Rubio, Blanca Open meetings: local agencies: teleconferences The Ralph M. Brown Act authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use teleconferencing, as specified, and requires a legislative body of a local agency that elects to use teleconferencing to comply with specified requirements, including that the local agency post agendas at all teleconference locations, identify each teleconference location in the notice and agenda of the meeting or proceeding, and have each teleconference location be accessible to the public. Current law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes the legislative body of a local agency to use alternative teleconferencing if, during the teleconference meeting, at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body participates in person from a singular physical location clearly identified on the agenda that is open to the public and situated within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction, and the legislative body complies with prescribed requirements. Current law requires a member to satisfy specified requirements to participate in a meeting remotely pursuant to these alternative teleconferencing provisions, including that specified circumstances apply. Current law establishes limits on the number of meetings a member may participate in solely by teleconference from a remote location pursuant to these alternative teleconferencing provisions, including prohibiting such participation for more than 2 meetings per year if the legislative body regularly meets once per month or less. This bill would remove the January 1, 2026, date from those provisions, thereby extending the alternative teleconferencing procedures indefinitely.
    AB 640 Muratsuchi Local educational agencies: governance training. Current law requires all local agency officials to receive training in ethics, at specified intervals, if the local agency provides certain monetary payments to a member of a legislative body, as provided. Current law requires a local agency to provide information on available ethics training to its officials and authorizes a local agency or an association of local agencies to offer the ethics training, as provided. Current law requires a local agency to maintain specified records related to the ethics training of its officials. Current law defines “local agency” to include, among others, a school district, county office of education, and charter school, and defines “local agency official” to include, among others, a member of the governing board of a school district, a county board of education, or the governing body of a charter school, for these purposes. This bill would require all local educational agency officials, as defined, to include any member of a governing board of a school district, a county board of education, or the governing body of a charter school, to receive training in K–12 public education governance laws, as defined, and would prescribe the timelines within which the training is required to be completed.
    AB 772 Lowenthal Suspensions and expulsions: off-campus acts: model policy. Current law prohibits a pupil from being suspended from school or recommended for expulsion, unless the superintendent of the school district or the principal of the school in which the pupil is enrolled determines that the pupil has committed an act from a list of specified acts. Current law authorizes suspension or expulsion for one of those acts if the act is related to a school activity or school attendance occurring at any time, including, but not limited to, while going to and coming from school. This bill would require the State Department of Education, on or before June 30, 2026, and in consultation with relevant stakeholders, to develop, post on its internet website, and distribute to each local educational agency, as defined, a model policy on how to address certain acts of bullying, cyberbullying, harassment, sexual harassment, or intimidation occurring outside of school hours and outside of the campus, as specified. The bill would require each local educational agency, on or before July 1, 2027, to adopt the model policy developed by the department, and would require each local educational agency to provide a copy of the adopted model policy to each of its credentialed employees, enrolled pupils, and the parents or guardians of its enrolled pupils.
    AB 989 Ramos State holidays: Native American Day. Current law includes the 4th Friday in September, known as “Native American Day,” as a state holiday. This bill would provide that the 4th Friday in September, known as “Native American Day,” is a paid holiday for state employees, as specified.
    SB 239 Arreguín Open meetings: teleconferencing: subsidiary body. The Ralph M. Brown Act requires, with specified exceptions, that all meetings of a legislative body, as defined, of a local agency be open and public and that all persons be permitted to attend and participate. The act generally requires for teleconferencing that the legislative body of a local agency that elects to use teleconferencing post agendas at all teleconference locations, identify each teleconference location in the notice and agenda of the meeting or proceeding, and have each teleconference location be accessible to the public. Current law also requires that, during the teleconference, at least a quorum of the members of the legislative body participate from locations within the boundaries of the territory over which the local agency exercises jurisdiction, except as specified. Current law, until January 1, 2026, authorizes specified neighborhood city councils to use alternate teleconferencing provisions related to notice, agenda, and public participation, as prescribed, if, among other requirements, the city council has adopted an authorizing resolution and 2/3 of the neighborhood city council votes to use alternate teleconference provisions, as specified. This bill would authorize a subsidiary body, as defined, to use alternative teleconferencing provisions and would impose requirements for notice, agenda, and public participation, as prescribed. The bill would require the subsidiary body to post the agenda at the primary physical meeting location. The bill would require the members of the subsidiary body to visibly appear on camera during the open portion of a meeting that is publicly accessible via the internet or other online platform, as specified.
    SB 59 Wiener Change of gender and sex identifier. Current law authorizes a person to file a petition with the superior court seeking a judgment recognizing their change of gender to female, male, or nonbinary, including a person who is under 18 years of age. Current law authorizes a person to file a single petition to simultaneously change the petitioner’s name and recognize the change to the petitioner’s gender and sex identifier, as specified. Current law requires a petition for a change of gender and sex identifier or a petition for a change of gender, sex identifier, and name filed by a person under 18 years of age, and any papers associated with the proceeding, to be kept confidential by the court. Current law requires the court to limit access to these records to specified individuals, including, among others, the minor, the minor’s parents, and their attorneys. This bill would expand that confidentiality provision to apply to all filed petitions for a change of gender and sex identifier or filed petitions for a change of gender, sex identifier, and name, and any papers associated with the proceeding, regardless of the age of the person who filed the petition. The bill would require the court to limit access to court records in those proceedings, as specified. This bill would make this provision retroactive and require the Judicial Council to ensure that all courts have implemented a method to ensure the court maintains the confidentiality of those petitions and associated papers that were filed prior to the effective date of this act.
    SB 771 Stern Pupils: use of social media. Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district, a county board of education, or the governing body of a charter school to adopt a policy to limit or prohibit the use by its pupils of social media, as defined, while the pupils are at a schoolsite or while the pupils are under the supervision and control of an employee or employees of that school district, county office of education, or charter school, as provided. This bill would require, instead of authorize, the adoption of a policy to limit or prohibit the use by its pupils of social media, as provided. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

  • AB 1217 Fong Public postsecondary education: admissions standards and criteria. Current law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to assist all school districts to ensure that all public high school pupils have access to a core curriculum that meets the admission requirements of the University of California and the California State University. Current law requests the University of California to assist school districts in developing, submitting, and maintaining courses certified by the University of California as meeting admission requirement criteria, as provided. This bill would request the University of California to align that assistance with the content standards and frameworks adopted by the State Board of Education for the applicable subject area, as provided. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
    AB 7 Bryan Postsecondary education: admissions preference: descendants of slavery. Would state that the California State University, the University of California, independent institutions of higher education, and private postsecondary educational institutions may consider providing a preference in admissions to an applicant who is a descendant of slavery, as defined, to the extent it does not conflict with federal law.
    SB 33 Cortese Homeless pupils: California Success, Opportunity, and Academic Resilience (SOAR) Guaranteed Income Program. Current law establishes various programs to provide assistance to homeless youth, including, among others, homeless youth emergency service pilot projects and the Runaway Youth and Families in Crisis Project. This bill, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature for this purpose, would require the State Department of Social Services to establish the California Success, Opportunity, and Academic Resilience (SOAR) Guaranteed Income Program. The program would award public school pupils who are in grade 12 and are homeless children or youths, as defined, a guaranteed income of $1,000 each month for 4 months from May 1, 2026, to August 1, 2026, inclusive, as provided.
    SB 640 Cabaldon Public postsecondary education: admission, transfer, and enrollment. (1)Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, and the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, as 2 of the segments of postsecondary education in the state. This bill would establish the Automatic Admission Program under which a pupil graduating from a high school of a participating local educational agency, a student awarded an associate degree for transfer (ADT) from a participating community college district, or a student who completes certain transfer core curriculum courses at a participating community college district is deemed eligible for enrollment into a designated California State University campus. To be eligible for enrollment, the bill would require the pupil or student to complete the required courses with a grade of “C” or better. The bill would require a participating local educational agency or community college district to identify each pupil or student who is eligible under the program, notify each pupil or student of their eligibility, and submit a list of the eligible pupils or students to the California State University. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.

  • AB 1067 Quirk-Silva Public employees’ retirement: felony convictions. Existing law, the California Public Employees’ Pension Reform Act of 2013, requires a public employee who is convicted of any state or federal felony for conduct arising out of, or in the performance of, the public employee’s official duties in pursuit of the office or appointment, or in connection with obtaining salary, disability retirement, service retirement, or other benefits, to forfeit all accrued rights and benefits in any public retirement system from the earliest date of the commission of the felony to the date of conviction, and prohibits the public employee from accruing further benefits in that public retirement system. This bill would require a public employer that is investigating a public employee for misconduct arising out of the actions described above, to continue the investigation even if the public employee retires while under investigation. The bill would require a public employer, if the investigation indicates that the public employee may have committed a crime, to refer the matter to the appropriate law enforcement agency. Under the bill, if a felony conviction results arising out of any conduct described above, the public employee would forfeit all accrued rights and benefits in any public retirement system pursuant to the provisions described above. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
    AB 579 Castillo Yaeli’s Law. The Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act establishes procedures for the reporting and investigation of suspected child abuse or neglect. The act requires certain professionals, including specified health practitioners and social workers, known as “mandated reporters,” to report known or reasonably suspected child abuse or neglect to a local law enforcement agency or a county welfare or probation department, as specified. Failure by a mandated reporter to report an incident of known or reasonably suspected child abuse or neglect is a misdemeanor. Current law defines “neglect” for these purposes as the negligent treatment or the maltreatment of a child by a person responsible for the child’s welfare under circumstances indicating harm or threatened harm to the child’s welfare. Current law defines “severe neglect” for these purposes as the negligent failure of a person having the care or custody of a child to protect the child from severe malnutrition or medically diagnosed nonorganic failure to thrive. Current law also defines “severe neglect” to mean those situations of neglect where a person having the care of custody of a child willfully permits the person or health of the child to be placed in a situation such that their person or health is endangered, as defined. This bill, Yaeli’s Law, would clarify that certain actions, including, among other things, using a child’s legal name, referring to a child by a pronoun consistent with their sex as recorded at birth, or refusing to consent to, or provide, gender-affirming health care or gender-affirming mental health care, are not child abuse or neglect, do not constitute unjustifiable physical pain, mental suffering, or endangerment of health, and do not constitute serious emotional damage or a substantial risk factor of suffering serious emotional damage.
    AB 857 Gipson School employees: cultural competency training. Would require the State Department of Education to, on or before July 1, 2027, develop an online cultural competency training delivery platform and online cultural competency training curriculum for school employees to support pupils of color. The bill would, commencing with the 2027–28 school year, require a school district, county office of education, or charter school serving pupils in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to provide that training to all school employees, as provided. The bill would also require local educational agencies to provide a proof of completion to school employees that complete the training and to ensure that all school employees complete the required training on paid time during the employees’ regular work hours or designated professional development hours, as provided. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

  • AB 1348 Bains Average daily attendance: immigration enforcement activity. Current law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Current law requires the local control funding formula, in part, to be based on average daily attendance, as defined. For purposes of state apportionments under the local control funding formula, this bill would, commencing with the 2026–27 fiscal year, require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to, upon receiving documentation from a school district, county office of education, or charter school, as provided, determine the average daily attendance for the period of 30 calendar days immediately following a confirmed immigration enforcement activity, as defined, for all schools within a designated region, as defined, using the highest of (1) the actual attendance recorded during the 30-day period, (2) the average daily attendance recorded during the 30 school days immediately preceding the confirmed immigration enforcement activity, or (3) the attendance recorded for the same 30-day period in the previous calendar year.
    AB 419 Connolly Educational equity: immigration enforcement. Current law requires the governing board or body of a school district, county office of education, or charter school to perform specified actions relating to pupils and immigration status, including, among others, providing information to parents and guardians, as appropriate, regarding their children’s right to a free public education, regardless of immigration status or religious beliefs. This bill would require the governing board or body of a local educational agency to post specified information related to immigration enforcement in the administrative buildings and on the internet websites of the local educational agency and each of its schoolsites, as provided. To the extent the bill imposes additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
    AB 421 Solache Immigration enforcement: prohibitions on access, sharing information, and law enforcement collaboration. The California Values Act generally prohibits California law enforcement agencies from investigating, interrogating, detaining, detecting, or arresting persons for immigration enforcement purposes. Current law provides certain limited exceptions to this prohibition. This bill would prohibit California law enforcement agencies from collaborating with, or providing any information in writing, verbally, on in any other manner to, immigration authorities regarding proposed or currently underway immigration enforcement actions when the actions could be or are taking place within a radius of one mile of any childcare or daycare facility, religious institution, place of worship, hospital, or medical office. To the extent this bill would impose additional duties on local law enforcement agencies or officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
    AB 49 Muratsuchi Schoolsites and day care centers: entry requirements: immigration enforcement. Current law prohibits, except as required by state or federal law or as required to administer a state or federally supported educational program, school officials and employees of a school district, county office of education, or charter school from collecting information or documents regarding citizenship or immigration status of pupils or their family members. Current law requires the superintendent of a school district, the superintendent of a county office of education, and the principal of a charter school, as applicable, to report to the respective governing board or body of the local educational agency in a timely manner any requests for information or access to a schoolsite by an officer or employee of a law enforcement agency for the purpose of enforcing the immigration laws in a manner that ensures the confidentiality and privacy of any potentially identifying information. This bill would prohibit school officials and employees of a local educational agency from allowing an officer or employee of the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to enter a schoolsite for any purpose without providing valid identification, a written statement of purpose, and a valid judicial warrant, and receiving approval from the superintendent of the school district, the superintendent of the county office of education, or the principal of the charter school, or their designee, as applicable. The bill would require the local educational agency, if the officer or employee of ICE meets those requirements, to limit access to facilities where pupils are not present.
    AB 85 Essayli Law enforcement: cooperation with immigration authorities. Under current law, a law enforcement official has limited discretion to cooperate with immigration authorities, and may only provide information regarding a person’s release date or transfer an individual to immigration authorities without a judicial warrant or probable cause determination if the individual has been convicted of specified crimes, including, but not limited to, serious and violent felonies, as specified, and only if doing so would not violate any federal, state, or local law, or local policy. Notwithstanding those provisions, this bill would instead require law enforcement officials to cooperate with immigration authorities by detaining and transferring an individual and providing release information if a person has been convicted of a felony.
    SB 48 Gonzalez Immigration enforcement: schoolsites: prohibitions on access, sharing information, and law enforcement collaboration. Current law prohibits, except as required by state or federal law or as required to administer a state- or federally supported educational program, school officials and employees of a school district, county office of education, or charter school from collecting information or documents regarding citizenship or immigration status of pupils or their family members. This bill would prohibit school districts, county offices of education, or charter schools and their personnel from granting a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, or other federal official engaging in immigration related investigation or enforcement, permission to access a school campus without a judicial warrant. The bill would require a local educational agency and its personnel, to the extent possible, to have the denial of permission for access witnessed and documented. The bill would also prohibit a local educational agency and its personnel from disclosing or providing, in writing, verbally, or in any other manner, the education records of or any information about a pupil, pupil’s family and household, school employee, or teacher to a United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, or any other federal official engaging in immigration related investigation or enforcement, without a judicial warrant, and regarding a pupil’s educational records or personal information, without the written consent of the pupil’s parent or legal guardian.
    SB 98 Pérez Elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education: immigration enforcement: notification. Current law requires the Attorney General, by April 1, 2018, in consultation with the appropriate stakeholders, to publish model policies limiting assistance with immigration enforcement at public schools, to the fullest extent possible consistent with federal and state law, and ensuring that public schools remain safe and accessible to all California residents, regardless of immigration status, and requires the Attorney General, at a minimum, to consider certain issues when developing the model policies, including, among others, procedures for local educational agency employees to notify the specified officials if an individual requests or gains access to school grounds for purposes related to immigration enforcement. This bill would require each school district, county office of education, and charter school to immediately notify all pupils, parents, faculty, staff, and other school community members of the presence of immigration officers, as defined, on the schoolsite. To the extent that the bill would impose new duties on school districts, county office of education, or charter schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

  • AB 1204 Alvarez Local control funding formula: targets. Current law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation relating to the local control funding formula to, among other things, fully fund a revised local control funding formula by the 2034–35 fiscal year to implement certain changes.
    AB 19 DeMaio Education expenses: education savings accounts. Current law establishes a system of elementary and secondary education in this state. This system consists of the public and private schools that provide instruction in kindergarten and in grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Current law establishes a system of higher education in this state, consisting of 4 segments: the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California; the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University; the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges; and independent institutions of higher education. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation, to be known as the Education Choice and Parental Empowerment Act of 2025, to empower parents to send their children to better performing schools by providing them with education savings accounts.
    AB 477 Muratsuchi Local control funding formula: funding targets: schoolsite employee salaries. Current law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact subsequent legislation that would increase schoolsite employee salaries by establishing new local control funding formula funding targets.
    SB 64 Grove Education expenses: School Choice Flex Account Act of 2025. Current law establishes a system of elementary and secondary education in this state. This system consists of the public and private schools that provide instruction in kindergarten and in grades 1 to 12, inclusive. This bill would enact the School Choice Flex Account Act of 2025 and establish the School Choice Flex Account (SCFA) Trust, to be known as the SCFA Trust, as a fund within the State Treasury to be administered by the SCFA Trust Board. For the 2027–28 to 2030–31, inclusive, school years, the bill would authorize certain children eligible to be enrolled in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to establish an SCFA or Special Education Flex Account (SEFA), based on parent or guardian income. The bill would, beginning with the 2031–32 school year, authorize every child eligible to be enrolled in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to establish an SCFA or SEFA. The bill would credit a deposit amount to the account of every eligible student enrolled in an eligible school for tuition and certain school expenses. The bill would specify the deposit amounts for the 2027–28 school year, and require the Department of Finance, beginning on July 1, 2028, to determine the SCFA and SEFA deposit amounts annually for the upcoming school year, as provided. The bill would require the Controller to transfer an amount of money from the General Fund to the SCFA Trust in those amounts. The bill would require any unused funds remaining in an SCFA or SEFA account on June 30 of each school year to be returned to the state for the benefit of elementary and secondary education, upon appropriation by the Legislature.
    SCA 1 Grove Educational expenses: school choice flex accounts and special education flex accounts. The California Constitution requires the Legislature to provide for a system of common schools by which a free school is kept up and supported in each district at least 6 months in every year. The California Constitution prohibits public money from being appropriated for the support of any sectarian or denominational school or any school not under the exclusive control of the officers of the public schools. This measure, notwithstanding the constitutional provisions referenced above or any other provision of the California Constitution, would authorize the state, and every agency or political subdivision of the state, to disburse funds pursuant to an agreement between the state and a parent or legal guardian of an eligible child for tuition and education-related expenses associated with attending a private school serving students in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, irrespective of religious affiliation, as provided by statute, and provide tax or other public benefits to private schools serving students in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, irrespective of religious affiliation, to further the promotion of intellectual, scientific, moral, and agricultural improvement.

  • AB 250 Aguiar-Curry Sexual assault: statute of limitations. Current law revives certain claims seeking to recover damages suffered as a result of a sexual assault that occurred on or after the plaintiff’s 18th birthday when one or more entities are legally responsible for damages and the entity or their agents engaged in a cover up, as defined, that would otherwise be barred prior to January 1, 2023, solely because the applicable statute of limitations has or had expired. Current law authorizes a cause of action for any such claim to proceed if already pending in court on January 1, 2023, or, if not filed by that date, to be commenced between January 1, 2023, and December 31, 2023. Existing law revives such claims brought by a plaintiff who alleges all of the following: (1) the plaintiff was sexually assaulted, (2) one or more entities are legally responsible for damages arising out of the assault, and (3) the entity or entities engaged in a cover up or attempted cover up, as defined, of a previous instance or allegations of sexual assault. This bill would extend the eligibility period for revival of claims of the type described above to include claims that would otherwise be barred prior to January 1, 2026, because the applicable statute of limitations has or had expired. The bill would instead require a revived claim against an entity, as defined, to allege that the plaintiff was sexually assaulted and that (1) one or more entities or persons are legally responsible for damages arising out of sexual assault by an alleged perpetrator against the plaintiff, and (2) an entity or entities, including their specified representatives, engaged in a cover up or attempted a cover up of a previous instance or allegations of sexual assault by an alleged perpetrator.
    AB 327 Ta Crimes: false reporting. Current law makes it a misdemeanor to report an emergency to specified government entities knowing that report to be false. Current law makes it a misdemeanor to initiate communication with the 911 emergency system with the intent to annoy or harass another person. This bill would make a 2nd or subsequent violation of these provisions punishable as a misdemeanor or felony for a person who is 18 years of age or older.
    AB 382 Berman Pedestrian safety: school zones: speed limits. Would establish a prima facie speed limit of 20 miles per hour in a school zone, as defined, subject to specified conditions, including, among others, when a school speed limit sign states “children are present” and children are present, as defined, and when a school speed limit sign states specific hours, as specified. By establishing new prima facie speed limits in school zones that would require changes to local speed limit signs, this bill would create a state-mandated local program.
    AB 601 Jackson Child abuse: reporting. The Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act requires certain professionals, including specified health practitioners and social workers, known as “mandated reporters,” to report known or reasonably suspected child abuse or neglect to a local law enforcement agency or a county welfare or probation department, as specified. Failure by a mandated reporter to report an incident of known or reasonably suspected child abuse or neglect is a misdemeanor. Current law defines “neglect” for these purposes as the negligent treatment or the maltreatment of a child by a person responsible for the child’s welfare under circumstances indicating harm or threatened harm to the child’s welfare. Current law defines “general neglect” as the negligent failure of a person having the care or custody of a child to provide adequate food, clothing, shelter, medical care, or supervision where no physical injury to the child has occurred. This bill would require each child welfare agency to establish an alternative response approach to reports of general neglect that uses county-based and community-based services and supports, as specified. The bill would, with specified exceptions, require a mandated reporter who knows or reasonably suspects that a child has been the victim of general neglect to make a referral to the county child welfare agency, and would require the agency, in that situation, to use the alternative response approach. The bill would require the State Department of Social Services to develop guidelines for this response, as specified.
    AB 68 Essayli School safety: armed school resource officers. Would require a school district or charter school to hire or contract with at least one armed school resource officer, as defined, authorized to carry a loaded firearm to be present at each school of the school district or charter school during regular school hours and any other time when pupils are present on campus, phased in by certain grade spans, as provided. By imposing an additional requirement on school districts and charter schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
    AB 727 González, Mark Pupil and student safety: statewide resources: identification cards. Current law, commencing July 1, 2025, requires a public or private school that serves pupils in any of grades 7 to 12, inclusive, and that issues pupil identification cards to have printed on the identification cards the number for the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. Current law requires a public or private institution of higher education that issues student identification cards to have printed on either side of the student identification cards the telephone number for the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. This bill, commencing July 1, 2026, would require the above-referenced schools and institutions to additionally have printed on the identification cards the telephone number and text line for a specified suicide hotline that is available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, as provided.
    AB 962 Hoover Pupil safety: comprehensive school safety plans: use of smartphones. Current law provides that school districts and county offices of education are responsible for the overall development of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of its schools, as provided. Current law requires a comprehensive school safety plan to, among other things, identify appropriate strategies and programs that will provide or maintain a high level of school safety and address the school’s procedures for complying with existing laws related to school safety. Current law requires the governing body of a school district, a county office of education, or a charter school to, by July 1, 2026, develop and adopt a policy to limit or prohibit the use by its pupils of smartphones while the pupils are at a schoolsite or while the pupils are under the supervision and control of an employee or employees of that school district, county office of education, or charter school. Current law, however, specifies circumstances in which a pupil may not be prohibited from possessing or using a smartphone, including, among others, in the case of an emergency or in response to a perceived threat of danger. This bill would expressly prohibit, if one or more parts of a comprehensive school safety plan address the use of smartphones by pupils, those parts from prohibiting a pupil from possessing or using a smartphone under those specified circumstances.
    SB 19 Rubio Threats: schools and places of worship. Would make a person who willfully threatens to commit a crime which will result in death or great bodily injury to any person who may be on the grounds of a school or place of worship, with specific intent and under certain circumstances, and if the threat causes a person or persons reasonably to be in sustained fear for their own safety or the safety of another person, guilty of a misdemeanor or felony punishable by imprisonment in a county jail for a specified term, except that if the person is under 18 years of age, the bill would make the person guilty of a misdemeanor. By creating a new crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
    SB 432 Seyarto Serious felonies: furnishing fentanyl to a minor. Current law, as added by Proposition 184, approved at the November 8, 1994, statewide general election, and amended by the Three Strikes Reform Act of 2012, approved as Proposition 36 at the November 6, 2012, statewide general election, commonly known as the three strikes law, imposes additional years of imprisonment in the state prison on a person who commits a serious felony and has been convicted of, or who has a prior conviction for, a serious felony. Current law includes furnishing specified controlled substances to a minor as a serious felony for these purposes. The Legislature may directly amend these initiatives by a statute passed in each house by a 2/3 vote, or by a statute that becomes effective only when approved by the voters. This bill would include furnishing fentanyl to a minor within the definition of a serious felony, including for purposes of the three strikes law. By expanding the scope of an enhancement, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
    SR 17 Rubio Relative to Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month. Would resolve that the Senate proclaims the month of February 2025 as Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month, and supports communities to empower teens to develop healthy and violence-free relationships throughout their lives. The Senate calls upon the people of California, including schools, community groups, families, and youth, to observe Teen Dating Violence Awareness and Prevention Month with programs and activities that raise awareness about the dynamics of teen dating violence and that support youth in learning the skills to have safe and healthy relationships.
    AB 767 Alanis Sexually violent predators: schools. Current law provides for the civil commitment of a person who is determined to be a sexually violent predator. Existing law establishes a procedure by which a person committed as a sexually violent predator may petition for conditional release and requires the court, if it makes a specified determination, to place the person on conditional release. Current law generally requires that a person released on conditional release pursuant to these provisions be placed in the person’s county of domicile prior to their incarceration unless extraordinary circumstances exist requiring placement outside the county, as specified. Current law prohibits a person being released under these provisions from being placed within 1/4 mile of any public or private school, as specified, if the person has previously been convicted of specified sexual misconduct of a child or if the court finds that the person has a history of improper sexual conduct with children. This bill would additionally prohibit a person being released under the above-described provisions from being placed within 1/4 mile of a child daycare facility, as defined.

  • AB 1412 Gonzalez, Jeff Special education: pupil transfers: residency requirements: records. (1)If an individual with exceptional needs, as defined, transfers from outside the state to a district, as defined, in the state, or transfers from district to district, within the same academic year, existing law requires local educational agencies, as defined, to provide the pupil with a free appropriate public education, including services comparable to those described in the previously approved individualized education program, in consultation with the parents, until the local educational agency conducts a federally required assessment, if determined to be necessary by the local educational agency, and develops a new individualized education program, if appropriate, that is consistent with federal and state law. This bill would require a local educational agency, within 30 days of the above-described transfers, to either adopt and implement the individualized education program previously adopted for the pupil or develop, adopt, and implement a new individualized education program for the pupil that is consistent with federal and state law, if applicable. To the extent the bill would impose additional duties on local education agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill contains other related provisions and other existing laws.
    AB 784 Hoover Special education. Current law requires local educational agencies to identify, locate, and assess individuals with exceptional needs and to provide those individuals with a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment, with special education and related services, as reflected in an individualized education program. Current law defines special education as instruction specially designed for individuals with exceptional needs and instruction in physical education, and includes certain services, training, and education as special education, as specified. This bill would add specialized deaf and hard of hearing services to those services included in special education.
    AB 329 Castillo California Healthy Youth Act: adoption. The California Healthy Youth Act requires school districts, charter schools, county boards of education, county superintendents of schools, the California School for the Deaf, and the California School for the Blind to ensure that all pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, receive comprehensive sexual health education and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) prevention education, as specified. The act requires that instruction to include, among other things, information about the effectiveness and safety of all federal Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved contraceptive methods in preventing pregnancy, including, but not limited to, emergency contraception, and requires instruction on pregnancy to include an objective discussion of all legally available pregnancy outcomes, including, but not limited to, parenting, adoption, and abortion. This bill would require the discussion of adoption to include a comprehensive explanation of, and information on, the types of adoption, the rights of a placing birth parent, and specific local adoption resources and support.

  • AB 437 Lackey Interscholastic athletics: California Interscholastic Federation: sports-related injuries. Current law requires the California Interscholastic Federation, on or before January 1, 2023, and on or before January 1 every 7 years thereafter, to report to the appropriate policy committees of the Legislature and the Governor on its evaluation and accountability activities undertaken, including, among other things, the status of the health and safety of pupils, coaches, officials, and spectators, including racial discrimination, harassment, or hazing. This bill would add sports-related head injuries and other sports-related injuries and medical problems as reportable information regarding the status of the health and safety of pupils, coaches, officials, and spectators.
    AB 675 Aguiar-Curry Office of Farm to Fork: California Farm to School Program.

     

    		 Would establish the California Farm to School Program, under the administration of the Office of Farm to Fork, for purposes of cultivating equity, nurturing students, building climate resilience, and creating scalable and sustainable change in the school food system. The bill would require the program to increase procurement of foods that are grown or produced in California and are whole or minimally processed from food producers in California for school meal programs and to increase hands-on food education opportunities that engage pupils and connect the classroom with the cafeteria. The bill would authorize the office, to the extent that funding is available, to implement initiatives under the program, including, but not limited to, initiatives that advance the California farm to school network and increase the nutritional profile of foods provided in schools. The bill would require the office to administer the California Farm to School Incubator Grant Program under the program. The bill would require the department to adopt regulations necessary to implement and administer the program. The bill would create the Farm to School Account in the Department of Food and Agriculture Fund, consisting of funds from federal, state, industry, philanthropic, and private sources, which the bill would make available to the department upon appropriation by the Legislature for purposes of the program.
    AB 677 Bryan Pupil records: directory information. Current law prohibits the release of directory information of a pupil identified as a homeless child or youth, as defined, unless a parent or eligible pupil has given written consent that the information may be released. This bill, notwithstanding the above provision, would authorize the disclosure of directory information of a pupil identified as a homeless child or youth, as defined, to facilitate an eye examination, as provided, or an oral health assessment, as provided, unless the parent or a pupil who has been accorded parental rights, as provided, has provided written notice to the school that they do not consent to the physical examination, as specified.
    AB 708 Valencia California Youth Football Act: safety equipment. The California Youth Football Act requires a youth sports organization that conducts a tackle football program to comply with certain requirements, including, among other things, not conducting more than 2 full-contact practices per week during the preseason and regular season, not holding a full-contact practice during the off-season, and having each football helmet reconditioned and recertified every other year, as specified. This bill would require a youth tackle football league, youth sports organization that conducts a tackle football program, or coach of a youth sports organization to allow youth tackle football participants to use safety equipment, including soft-shelled add-ons on football helmets.
    AB 932 Irwin Community youth athletics programs: sex or gender discrimination. Current law prohibits a city, county, city and county, or special district from discriminating against any person on the basis of gender in the operation, conduct, or administration of community youth athletics programs, as defined, or in the allocation of school and recreation facilities and resources, as defined, that support or enable these programs. Current law creates an independent right to bring a civil action for a violation of this prohibition for equitable and monetary relief, as specified. This bill would prohibit a school district, county office of education, or charter school from discriminating against a person on the basis of sex or gender in the operation, conduct, or administration of community youth athletics programs or in the allocation or rental to a third-party community youth athletics program of school and recreation facilities and resources that support or enable the program. The bill would create an independent right to bring a civil action for equitable and monetary relief for a violation of this prohibition, as specified. The bill would require the courts to consider, in civil actions brought under these provisions or applicable antidiscrimination laws alleging discrimination in community youth athletics programs, specified factors in determining whether discrimination exists, including whether the selection of community youth athletics programs offered effectively accommodates the athletic interests and abilities of members of both genders.
    SB 411 Pérez Stop Child Hunger Act of 2025. Current federal law establishes the Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer for Children (Summer EBT) program, under which pupils who are eligible for free and reduced-price school meals receive $40 per month, with specified adjustments, during summer months for grocery benefits. Current federal regulations require, by 2025, the designated state agency to make a Summer EBT application available to households whose children are enrolled in schools participating in the National School Lunch Program or the School Breakfast Program and who do not already have an individual eligibility determination. Current state law requires the State Department of Social Services, as the lead agency in partnership with the State Department of Education, to maximize participation in the Summer EBT program. Current law requires the governing board of a school district and the county superintendent of schools to make paper applications for free or reduced-price meals available to pupils at all times during each regular schoolday. Current law authorizes those entities to make an application electronically available online if the online application complies with certain requirements, including, among others, the inclusion of links to certain internet websites providing information on, and applications for, other government programs, such as CalFresh. This bill, the Stop Child Hunger Act of 2025, would require the State Department of Education, with support from the State Department of Social Services, to comply with the above-described federal regulations by developing, and providing families with, a statewide application that is made available through a single statewide internet website that enables families to submit federally required information relating to the Summer EBT program, as specified.
    AB 2 Lowenthal Social media platforms: injuries to children: civil penalties. Would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation that would make a social media platform liable for specified civil penalties in addition to any other remedy provided by law, if the platform fails to exercise ordinary care or skill toward a child.

  • SB 243 Padilla Chatbots: minors. Current law requires a social media platform to take various steps to prevent cyberbullying of minors on the platform, including by requiring the platform to establish a prominent mechanism within its internet-based service that allows any individual, whether or not that individual has a profile on the internet-based service, to report cyberbullying or any content that violates the existing terms of service related to cyberbullying. This bill would, among other things related to making a chatbot platform safer for minor users, require an operator, as defined, of a chatbot platform to take reasonable steps to prevent a chatbot on its chatbot platform from providing rewards to a minor user at unpredictable intervals or after an inconsistent number of actions or from encouraging increased engagement, usage, or response rates.