California Teleconnect Fund Administrative Committee Fund program.

Removed Senate amendment date headers (August 21 and June 30, 2026) and the original introduction date (March 16, 2026).

Added legislative process language: 'Passed the Assembly August 26, 2026' and 'Passed the Senate August 25, 2026.'

Added signature blocks for Chief Clerk of the Assembly, Secretary of the Senate, Private Secretary of the Governor, and a line for the Governor's approval date.

Removed line numbers from the statutory text and reformatted page headers/footers to match enrolled bill formatting.

Community college districts are added as eligible entities for discounted telecommunications rates in Section 280(a), both as direct qualifying entities and as operators of noninstructional facilities. Previously only 'community colleges' were listed, which could have excluded the district-level governing bodies.

Section 884.5(b) now states that the service provider shall first apply an E-rate discount 'as determined by the commission,' clarifying that the PUC (not the service provider or the customer) determines the applicable E-rate discount amount when applying it before the Teleconnect discount.

A blank Section 4 was removed from the end of the bill, which appears to be a leftover placeholder with no substantive effect.

Removed the provision allowing up to $1,500,000 from the Teleconnect Fund for 2-1-1 disaster preparedness service gaps in counties without existing 2-1-1 centers. This provision had already become inoperative on January 1, 2023.

Removed all provisions related to moneys loaned from the California Teleconnect Fund Administrative Committee Fund in the Budget Act of 2003, including conditions that restricted rate increases while loans were outstanding and the notification requirements to the Director of Finance and Joint Legislative Budget Committee.

Simplified the eligibility language in Section 280(a) by removing 'maintaining kindergarten' as a separate qualifier for schools. The bill now simply lists 'qualifying schools, school districts, and county offices of education serving preschools, transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, or any of grades 1 to 12' without the redundant intermediate phrase.

Expanded the description of the California Teleconnect Fund Administrative Committee's advisory role in Section 280(b) to explicitly include noninstructional facilities operated or contracted by qualifying schools, school districts, county offices of education, community colleges, public libraries, and public library systems as entities for which the committee advises on discounted rates.

Changed Section 884.5(b) from 'The commission service provider shall first apply an E-rate discount' to 'The service provider shall first apply an E-rate discount,' clarifying that it is the telecommunications service provider (not the Public Utilities Commission) who must apply the E-rate discount before the teleconnect discount.