AB 865 California Assembly · 2025-2026 Regular Session

Dual language immersion programs: instructional materials: grants.

Summary

Existing law appropriates $10,000,000 from the General Fund for the 2021–22 fiscal year to the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer the Dual Language Immersion Grant Program for the purpose of expanding access to quality dual language learning and fostering languages that English learners bring to California's education system. Under that program, the State Department of Education is required to award a minimum of 25 one-time Dual Language Immersion Grants over a period of 3 fiscal years of up to $380,000 per grant to an eligible entity to expand or establish dual language immersion programs. This bill would establish the Dual Language Immersion Education Instructional Materials Grant Program, to be administered by the Superintendent, for purposes of providing one-time grants of $100,000 to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to increase available instructional materials in partner languages for dual language immersion programs at one or more schoolsites, as provided. The bill would require a grant recipient to report to the department, on or before June 29, 2029, on how grant funds were expended, including a list of any materials obtained or developed. The bill would require the department to submit a report to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature, on or before December 31, 2029, that includes the data received from the grant recipients. The bill would make implementation of these provisions contingent upon an appropriation by the Legislature for these purposes in the annual Budget Act or another statute.

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Introduction

Feb 2025

Committee Review

Floor Vote

Governor

Introduced Feb 19, 2025 Last action Feb 2, 2026

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03/28/25 - Amended Assembly → AB865 · 4 edits

MODERATE

The bill removed the direct $5,000,000 appropriation from Section 52101(a) and renumbered all subsequent subsections accordingly. The operative text now references 'funds appropriated for purposes of this article' rather than a specific sum appropriated within the section itself, making funding contingent on a separate legislative action (Budget Act or other statute). Additionally, the grant recipient reporting requirement was expanded to include a list of any materials obtained or developed.

FISCAL

The standalone appropriation provision in Section 52101(a) that directly appropriated $5,000,000 from the General Fund for FY 2026-27 was removed. The bill no longer appropriates funds within its own operative text.

References to 'of the sum appropriated in subdivision (a)' were changed to 'funds appropriated for purposes of this article,' shifting reliance to the intent statement in Section 52102 and the contingency provision in Section 52103, which requires a separate appropriation by the Legislature in the Budget Act or another statute.

REQUIREMENT

The grant recipient reporting requirement was expanded. In addition to providing a physical or digital copy of instructional materials obtained with grant funds, recipients must now also provide 'a list of any materials obtained or developed.'

TECHNICAL

All subsections of Section 52101 were renumbered down by one letter (b became a, c became b, d became c, e became d, f became e) to account for the removal of the former appropriation subsection.

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Amendments

Feb 2, 2026

Lower · Passed

From committee: Filed with the Chief Clerk pursuant to Joint Rule 56.

lower

May 23, 2025

Lower · Passed

In committee: Held under submission.

lower

Apr 23, 2025

Committee

In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.

lower

Apr 1, 2025

Committee

Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

lower

Mar 28, 2025

Lower · Passed

Read second time and amended.

lower

Mar 27, 2025

Introduced

From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 26).

lower

Mar 11, 2025

Committee

Re-referred to Com. on ED.

lower

Mar 10, 2025

Introduced

From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended.

lower

Mar 3, 2025

Committee

Referred to Com. on ED.

lower

Feb 20, 2025

Lower · Passed

From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.

lower

1 primary · 8 co-sponsors