California Bills

The Budget Act of 2022, the Budget Act of 2023, and the Budget Act of 2024 made appropriations for the support of state government for the 2022–23, 2023–24, and 2024–25 fiscal years, respectively. This bill would amend those budget acts by amending, adding, and repealing items of appropriation and making other changes. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.

(1) Existing state sales and use tax laws impose a tax on retailers measured by the gross receipts from the sale of tangible personal property sold at retail in this state or on the storage, use, or other consumption in this state of tangible personal property purchased from a retailer for storage, use, or other consumption in this state. The Sales and Use Tax Law generally provides that the taxes are due and payable to the California Department of Tax and Fee Administration (CDTFA) quarterly on or before the last day of the month next succeeding each quarterly period and requires, for purposes of sales tax, a return to be filed by a seller that contains, among other information, the gross receipts of the seller during the preceding reporting period. The Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law authorizes counties and cities to impose local sales and use taxes in conformity with the Sales and Use Tax Law, and existing laws authorize districts, as specified, to impose transactions and use taxes in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, which generally conforms to the Sales and Use Tax Law. Amendments to the Sales and Use Tax Law are automatically incorporated into the local tax laws. Existing law, with respect to specified vehicles sold at retail on and after January 1, 2021, by a licensed dealer, except a new motor vehicle dealer, requires the dealer to pay the applicable sales tax, or use tax pursuant to the Transactions and Use Tax Law, to the Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) acting for and on behalf of CDTFA within 30 days from the date of the sale. That law does not relieve the dealer of the obligation to file a return with CDTFA. This bill, for reporting periods beginning on or after January 1, 2021, would instead require an application filed with DMV to be deemed a filed return with CDTFA, as provided. The bill would also authorize CDTFA to exempt a licensed dealer from the requirement to pay the applicable taxes to DMV if the dealer sold 1,000 or more vehicles at retail in the current or preceding calendar year and the dealer's account is in good standing, as defined, with CDTFA. (2) Existing law, the Marketplace Facilitator Act, administered by the CDTFA, provides that a marketplace facilitator, as defined, is considered the seller, retailer, and dealer for each sale facilitated through its marketplace, as defined, for purposes of determining whether that marketplace facilitator is required to register with the department under the Sales and Use Tax Law. That act provides, among other things, that any marketplace facilitator that is registered or required to register with the department under the Sales and Use Tax Law and who facilitates a retail sale of tangible personal property by a marketplace seller, as defined, is the retailer selling or making the sale of the tangible personal property sold through its marketplace for purposes of paying or collecting specified taxes and fees, including a fee administered pursuant to the Fee Collection Procedures Law, defined to include a covered electronic waste recycling fee pursuant to the Electronic Waste Recycling Act of 2003, as specified. This bill would expand the application the Marketplace Facilitator Act to instead include any fee imposed pursuant to the Electronic Waste Recycling Act of 2003, as specified. (3) Existing law authorizes cities and counties, subject to certain limitations and approval requirements, to levy a transactions and use tax for general or specific purposes, in accordance with the procedures and requirements set forth in the Transactions and Use Tax Law, including a requirement that the combined rate of all taxes that may be imposed in accordance with that law in the county not exceed 2%. Existing law authorizes the County of Sonoma or any city within the County of Sonoma to impose a transactions and use tax for general or specific purposes, and authorizes the Sonoma County Transportation Authority to impose a transactions and use tax for specific purposes, at a rate of no more than 1% that, in combination with other transactions and use taxes, would exceed the above-described combined rate limit of 2%, if certain requirements are met. Existing law conditionally repeals the additional authorization for the County of Sonoma, any city within that county, and the Sonoma County Transportation Authority, on January 1, 2026, if an ordinance proposing the tax has not been approved by that date. This bill would recast and restate the authority granted to the County of Sonoma, any city within that county, or the Sonoma County Transportation Authority to clarify that the authority for each of those public entities is determined separately. The bill would state that this change is not a change in, but is declaratory of, existing law. This bill would repeal the provision that conditionally repeals the authority granted to the County of Sonoma, any city within that county, or the Sonoma County Transportation Authority. The bill would instead require that any ordinance exercising this authority be approved by the voters voting on the ordinance before January 1, 2026. (4) The Personal Income Tax Law, in conformity with federal income tax laws, defines "gross income" as income from whatever source derived, except as specifically excluded, and provides various exclusions from gross income. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2030, would exclude from gross income retirement pay received by a qualified taxpayer, as defined, during the taxable year, not to exceed $20,000, from the federal government for service performed in the uniformed services, as defined. The bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2030, would also exclude from gross income annuity payments received by a qualified taxpayer, as defined, during the taxable year, not to exceed $20,000, pursuant to a United States Department of Defense Survivor Benefit Plan. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2021, and before January 1, 2030, would provide an exclusion from gross income for any qualified taxpayer, as defined, for amounts received in settlement in connection with a wildfire in the state, as provided. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2024, and before January 1, 2029, would provide an exclusion from gross income for amounts received, on or after March 1, 2024, as compensation for specified costs and losses related to the Chiquita Canyon elevated temperature landfill event in the County of Los Angeles, as provided. (5) Existing law establishes various means-tested public social services programs administered by counties to provide eligible recipients with certain benefits, including, but not limited to, cash assistance under the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program, nutrition assistance under the CalFresh program, and health care services under the Medi-Cal program. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services, subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act, to administer the California Guaranteed Income Pilot Program to provide grants to eligible entities for the purpose of administering pilot programs and projects that provide a guaranteed income to participants. Existing law defines an eligible entity, for purposes of the program, as a nonprofit organization, as specified, or a city, county, or city and county. This bill, to the extent permitted by federal law, would prohibit any Chiquita Canyon elevated temperature landfill event payment, as defined, received by a taxpayer from being considered income or resources when determining eligibility or benefit amounts for any means-tested program or guaranteed income payments, as defined. To the extent that the bill would expand eligibility for programs administered by counties, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (6) The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law, in modified conformity with federal income tax law, allow a credit against the taxes imposed by those laws, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2021, and before January 1, 2027, a credit for rehabilitation of certified historic structures, as defined, and, under the Personal Income Tax Law, for a qualified residence, as defined. Existing law limits the amount of rehabilitation tax credits that may be allocated to $50,000,000 per calendar year in the aggregate, plus any amount of unallocated tax credits from the prior calendar year. Existing law requires that $2,000,000 of that amount be set aside in each calendar year for taxpayers with qualified rehabilitation expenditures, as defined, for a certified historic structure that is a qualified residence. Existing law further requires that $8,000,000 of the total amount of credits be set aside for taxpayers with qualified rehabilitation expenditures of less than $1,000,000 for any other certified historic building that is not a qualified residence. Existing law requires that any amount of the $2,000,000 or $8,000,000 set aside, as described, that is not allocated during that calendar year becomes available for allocation in the next calendar year, as provided. This bill would, beginning July 1, 2025, instead require that any amount of the $2,000,000 or $8,000,000 set aside, as described above, not allocated during the calendar year be made available within 90 days to taxpayers with qualified rehabilitation expenditures of $1,000,000 or more for affordable housing projects that were eligible for, but did not receive, an allocation, as provided. The bill would also provide that awards shall be made until the tax credits are depleted. (7) The Personal Income Tax Law and the Corporation Tax Law allow numerous motion picture credits. Existing law, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, allows a motion picture credit (motion picture credit 4.0) to be allocated by the California Film Commission on or after July 1, 2025, and before July 1, 2030, in an amount equal to 20% or 25% of qualified expenditures for the production of a qualified motion picture in this state, and limits the aggregate amount of the credit that may be allocated for a fiscal year to $330,000,000, as specified. Existing law allows a qualified taxpayer to elect to be paid a refund if the amount allowable as a credit under the motion picture credit 4.0 exceeds the qualified taxpayer's tax liability for the taxable year, and allows the excess to be carried over, as specified. This bill, for the above-described motion picture credit, would increase the aggregate amount of the credit that may be allocated for a fiscal year to $750,000,000, as specified, and would correct erroneous cross-references in those provisions. By requiring additional moneys to be paid from the Tax Relief and Refund Account, a continuously appropriated fund, the bill would make an appropriation. (8) The Personal Income Tax Law also imposes an annual tax on every limited partnership, limited liability partnership, and limited liability company doing business in this state, as specified, in an amount equal to the minimum franchise tax. The Corporation Tax Law imposes an annual tax on "S" corporations at a rate of 1.5% of its net income, or if greater, the minimum franchise tax, as specified. Existing law, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2021, and before January 1, 2026, authorizes a partnership or "S" corporation that meets certain other requirements, including a requirement that the entity make a payment of a specified amount on or before June 15 of the year of the election, to elect to pay an elective tax at a rate based on its net income, as specified, for the taxable year. That law, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2021, and before January 1, 2026, allows a credit against the personal income tax to a taxpayer, other than a partnership, that is a partner, shareholder, or member of an entity that elects to pay the elective tax, in an amount equal to a specified percentage of the partner's, shareholder's, or member's pro rata share or distributive share, as applicable, of income subject to the elective tax paid by the entity. This bill would allow the above-referenced credit in the qualified taxpayer's taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2027, if the qualified taxpayer is a partner, shareholder, or member of an entity that elects to pay the elective tax for their taxable year beginning on or after January 1, 2025, and before January 1, 2026, and files its return on a fiscal year basis, as provided. This bill would also extend the operation of both the elective tax and the credit described above for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, and before January 1, 2031. The bill would remove the requirement that the electing entity make the specified payment by June 15. The bill would also reduce the credit allowed to a taxpayer against personal income tax if the electing entity does not make a payment by June 15, or makes a payment that is less than the required amount, as specified. This bill would make additional conforming changes. (9) The Corporation Tax Law imposes taxes measured by income and, in the case of a business with business income derived from or attributable to sources both within and without this state, apportions the business income between this state and other states and foreign countries in accordance with a sales factor, as specified, except that in the case of an apportioning trade or business that derives more than 50% of its gross business receipts from conducting one or more qualified business activities, business income is apportioned in accordance with a specified 3-factor formula. Existing law defines qualified business activities for this purpose to include, among other things, banking and financial business activities, as defined. This bill, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, would remove banking and financial business activities from the definition of qualified business activities for purposes of apportionment. (10) Existing law authorizes a juvenile or superior court, county, the state, or the State Bar to refer any fine, monetary sanction, state or local penalty, bail, forfeiture, restitution fine, restitution order, or any other amount to the Franchise Tax Board for collection under guidelines prescribed by the Franchise Tax Board, as specified. Existing law requires amounts collected pursuant to the above-described provisions, except as specified, to be transmitted to the Treasurer and deposited in the State Treasury to the credit of the Court Collection Account in the General Fund. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that costs to the Franchise Tax Board to administer the above-described provisions for the 1997–98 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter not exceed 15% of the amount it collects, as provided. This bill would instead state the intent of the Legislature that costs to the Franchise Tax Board to administer the above-described provisions for the 2025–26 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter not exceed 20% of the amount it collects, as provided. (11) The California Department of Tax and Fee Administration administers various taxes, fees, and surcharges, including, among others, an excise tax on the retail sale in this state of any firearm, firearm precursor part, or ammunition. Existing law requires collection of the excise tax pursuant to the Fee Collections Procedures Law, the violation of which is a crime. This bill would name the provisions governing the above-described excise tax the "California Firearm Excise Tax Law." The bill would deem, for purposes of the California Firearm Excise Tax Law, a licensed firearms dealer, firearms manufacturer, or ammunition vendor in this state who transfers physical possession of any firearm, firearm precursor part, or ammunition to a purchaser in this state on behalf of an out-of-state retailer engaging in business in this state the retailer, as specified. By expanding the scope of an existing crime, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (12) Existing law requires any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure to contain, among other things, specific goals that the tax expenditure will achieve, detailed performance indicators, and data collection requirements. This bill would provide that additional information for the above-described exclusions from the Personal Income Tax Law and would provide that the provisions requiring additional information for any bill authorizing a new tax expenditure do not apply to the other provisions of this measure, except as specified. (13) This bill would include a change in state statute that would result in a taxpayer paying a higher tax within the meaning of Section 3 of Article XIIIA of the California Constitution, and thus would require for passage the approval of 23 of the membership of each house of the Legislature. (14) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. (15) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.

Existing law establishes the Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program and requires the Public Utilities Commission to administer a surcharge to collect revenues of up to $100,000,000 per year until January 1, 2025, subject to an annual appropriation of moneys by the Legislature, to allow providers of equipment and service pursuant to the Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program to recover their costs as they are incurred. Existing law establishes the Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program Administrative Committee Fund for the program described above. This bill would extend the requirement on the commission to collect the surcharge described above until December 31, 2034, subject to annual appropriation of moneys by the Legislature, and would require the commission to transfer moneys it collects from the surcharge to the Controller for deposit into the Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program Administrative Committee Fund. Existing law requires the commission to annually review the surcharge level and the balances in the fund identified above. Existing law authorized, until January 1, 2025, the commission to make necessary adjustments to the surcharge to ensure that the programs supported by the surcharge are adequately funded and that the fund balances are not excessive, as defined. This bill would repeal that requirement and, instead, would authorize the commission to make recommendations to the Legislature regarding appropriations under the Deaf and Disabled Telecommunications Program. Under existing law, a violation of an order, decision, rule, direction, demand, or requirement of the commission is a crime. Because a violation of a commission action implementing this bill's requirements would be a crime, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

(1) Existing law establishes the Natural Resources Agency, composed of departments, boards, conservancies, and commissions responsible for the restoration, protection, and management of the state's natural and cultural resources. Existing law establishes within the Natural Resources Agency the Sixth District Agricultural Association, known as Exposition Park. Existing law establishes the Department of General Services in the Government Operations Agency for purposes of providing centralized services of state government, including, among other things, planning, acquiring, constructing, and maintaining state buildings and property. This bill would authorize the Natural Resources Agency to enter into a noncompetitive grant with a nonprofit organization, as specified. The bill would authorize the nonprofit organization, in consultation with the Natural Resources Agency and the Department of General Services, to plan, construct, and maintain a memorial to the victims and survivors of the Holocaust at Exposition Park, as specified. The bill would require the Department of General Services, in consultation with the nonprofit organization and the agency, to, among other things, review the preliminary design plans to identify potential maintenance concerns. The bill would require the nonprofit organization, in consultation with Exposition Park and with the approval of the Natural Resources Agency and the Department of General Services, to prepare certain items, including an agreement for the long-term maintenance and security of the memorial. (2) Existing law sets forth a comprehensive plan for the conservation of the waters of the San Francisco Bay and the development of its shoreline and delegates to the San Francisco Bay Conservation and Development Commission authority to implement the plan. Existing law establishes in the State Treasury a Bay Fill Clean-Up and Abatement Fund and requires moneys from specified sources to be paid into the fund, including all moneys collected civilly under specified proceedings. Existing law makes the moneys in the fund available for expenditure by the commission or the executive director, when appropriated by the Legislature, for specified purposes, including resource enhancement and remedial cleanup or abatement actions. This bill would additionally make the moneys in the fund available for enforcement activities and for technology, services, programs, and personnel that directly support those enforcement activities or that directly support any of the other specified purposes of the fund. (3) Existing law provides for the regulation of underground storage tanks, as defined, by the State Water Resources Control Board. Existing law, until January 1, 2036, requires the board to conduct a loan and grant program to assist small businesses in upgrading, replacing, or removing project tanks to comply with underground storage tank and gasoline vapor control requirements. Existing law makes funds available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, from the Petroleum Underground Storage Tank Financing Account available for the loan and grant program. Existing law defines "project tanks" to mean tanks that would be upgraded, replaced, or removed with loan or grant funds, including tanks that are upgraded to comply with the Enhanced Vapor Recovery Phase II regulations. Existing law authorizes grant funds to be used to reimburse up to 100% of costs incurred to comply with the Enhanced Vapor Recovery Phase II regulations, if the grant application was received by April 1, 2009. This bill would instead define "project tanks" to mean tanks that would be upgraded, replaced, or removed with loan or grant funds to comply with underground storage tank and gasoline vapor control requirements, including tanks that are required to be permanently closed on or before December 31, 2025. The bill would eliminate the authority to use the grant funds to reimburse costs incurred to comply with the Enhanced Vapor Recovery Phase II regulations. The bill would authorize loan and grant funds to be used to reimburse up to 100% of the costs to remove or replace a project tank if the board receives the loan application before June 30, 2025, and the costs are incurred between specified dates. (4) The Professional Foresters Law provides for the regulation of persons who practice the profession of forestry and whose activities have an impact upon the ecology of forested landscapes and the quality of the forest environment. Under existing law, fees received pursuant to the Professional Foresters Law are required to be deposited in the Professional Forester Registration Fund, to be available, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the administration of these provisions. Existing law authorizes, in specified circumstances, the Director of Finance to authorize an emergency expenditure from the fund in an amount determined by the director, as provided. Existing law requires the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection to establish by regulation the amount of fees, for, among other things, application for registry and a penalty fee for failure to apply for a renewal, within specified ranges and based on a determination by the state board of the amount of revenues reasonably necessary to carry out the regulation of these provisions. This bill would increase the specified ranges for the above-described fees. By increasing the range for these specified fees that are deposited into a fund that is continuously appropriated under specified circumstances, this bill would make an appropriation. (5) Existing law establishes in the Natural Resources Agency the Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (CAL-FIRE) under the control of an executive officer known as the Director of Forestry and Fire Protection. Existing law requires CAL-FIRE, in accordance with a plan approved by the State Board of Forestry and Fire Protection, to, among other things, provide fire prevention and firefighting implements, organize crews and patrols, and employ people to effect the plan. This bill would require CAL-FIRE, subject to an appropriation of funds, to begin to employ sufficient permanent firefighting personnel to increase the base period hand crew staffing levels. Under the bill, CAL-FIRE would maintain the ability to hire seasonal, temporary firefighters as needed to allow for surge hiring capacity for confronting emergency fire conditions or other personnel shortages as determined by the director. (6) Existing law requires the annual Budget Bill submitted by the Governor to include an amount not to exceed $3,400,000 to be appropriated by the Legislature from the Highway Users Tax Account in the Transportation Tax Fund to the State Parks and Recreation Fund. Existing law requires those funds to be appropriated to the Department of Parks and Recreation for state park highway purposes. This bill would instead require the Governor's annual Budget Bill to include an amount not to exceed $12,000,000 for those purposes. (7) Existing law establishes the Department of Water Resources within the Natural Resources Agency and vests it with various powers and duties related to water, including, among other things, the authority to acquire by eminent domain any property necessary for state water and dam purposes and to award and enter into construction contracts that require expenditures in excess of funds presently available, as specified. Existing law requires workers employed on public works to be paid not less than the general prevailing rate of per diem wages for work of a similar character in the locality that the public work is performed, as prescribed, unless an exception applies. This bill would authorize the Department of Water Resources to enter into contracts for habitat restoration projects, as specified. The bill would provide that these contracts may include the physical restoration of any state or privately owned real property, and any incidental or necessary services to accomplish that purpose. The bill would require the Department of Water Resources to prepare a request for proposals, as specified, for solicitations by the department for these contracts. The bill would require contracts entered into by the Department of Water Resources to provide compensation, including through progress payments, based upon measurable environmental outcomes and performance targets. The bill would require contracts entered into by the Department of Water Resources that include work considered to be a public work, as defined, to be subject to the public works provisions of the Labor Code. The bill would require the Department of Water Resources to classify the nature of the services to be provided when establishing the terms and conditions applicable for each contracted-for project. (8) Existing law requires the Department of Water Resources, in conjunction with other public agencies, to conduct an investigation of the state's groundwater basins and to report its findings to the Governor and the Legislature in years ending in 5 and 0. This bill would require the Department of Water Resources to report its findings, as described above, to the Governor and the Legislature only in years ending in 5. (9) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.

(1) 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. Under the act, families that meet specified requirements are eligible for federal and state subsidized childcare and development services, and a family that establishes initial eligibility or ongoing eligibility for these services is considered to meet all eligibility and need requirements for those services for not less than 24 months, except as specified. Existing federal regulations require a minimum of 12 months of eligibility for these services before a redetermination of eligibility is made. This bill would, if a family already receiving childcare services adds an additional child and requests services for that child during the current eligibility period, extend the family's eligibility period, as necessary, to ensure that the additional child receives at least 12 months of eligibility for services before a redetermination of eligibility, as specified. (2) Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to annually report to the Department of Finance and the Legislature a statewide summary identifying the estimated funding used in general childcare and development programs for infants and toddlers, and the number of preschool age children receiving part-day preschool and wraparound childcare services. This bill would delete the requirement for that report to identify the number of preschool age children receiving part-day preschool and wraparound childcare services. (3) Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services to contract with local contracting agencies for alternative payment programs for childcare services to be provided throughout the state. Existing law requires an alternative payment program to reimburse a licensed childcare provider in accordance with a biennial market rate survey, as specified, at a rate not to exceed the regional market rate ceiling, as prescribed. Under existing law, reimbursements to childcare providers based upon a daily rate may only be allowed under certain circumstances, including that a family has an unscheduled but documented need of 6 hours or more per occurrence that exceeds the certified need for childcare or a family has a documented need of 6 hours or more per day that exceeds no more than 14 days per month. This bill would reduce the documented need for reimbursements to childcare providers based upon a daily rate from 6 hours or more to 5 hours or more, as described. (4) Existing law allocates certain appropriated funds to the State Department of Social Services and State Department of Education to provide specified family childcare providers and childcare centers with a monthly cost of care plus rate commencing January 1, 2024, and through June 30, 2026. The monthly cost of care plus rate is a supplemental monthly payment to those providers and centers. This bill would extend the payment of the monthly cost of care plus rate to June 30, 2026, and would allocate additional funds to the State Department of Social Services and State Department of Education from the Budget Act of 2025 to provide a once-per-month cost of care plus rate for each child served who is enrolled in subsidized childcare, therefore making an appropriation. From July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026, inclusive, the bill would require that monthly rate to be equal to the existing rate increased by a percentage calculated by the Department of Finance based on a specified formula. (5) Existing law provides for a specified annual funding increase for special education and childcare and development programs if an inflation or cost-of-living adjustment is not otherwise provided for those programs. Existing law suspends the annual cost-of-living adjustment for childcare and development programs for the 2012–13, 2013–14, 2014–15, and 2020–21 fiscal years. This bill would additionally suspend the annual cost-of-living adjustment for childcare and development programs for the 2025–26 fiscal year. (6) Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services, in collaboration with the State Department of Education, to implement a reimbursement system plan that establishes reasonable standards and assigned reimbursement rates for state-subsidized childcare and development services. Existing law also requires the department, in collaboration with the State Department of Education, to develop and conduct an alternative methodology, as specified, to set reimbursement rates for state-subsidized childcare and development services. Existing law requires the department, from October 1, 2024, to January 1, 2026, inclusive, to provide the Assembly Committee on Budget, the Senate Committee on Budget and Fiscal Review, and the Legislative Analyst's Office with quarterly updates on the implementation of the new reimbursement rates set under the alternative methodology. If a market rate survey is used to set reimbursement rates, existing law requires the department to contract to conduct a regional market rate survey no more than once every 2 years, as specified. This bill would extend the timeframe during which the above-described quarterly update is required to July 1, 2027, and require the department to include additional specified information commencing with the quarterly update due October 1, 2025. The bill would, commencing July 1, 2026, increase rates for specified programs by the cost-of-living adjustment granted by the Legislature annually, as specified. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to cease using a regional market rate survey and to instead use an alternative methodology to inform the setting of future childcare rates, and to set reimbursement rates that are informed by the alternative methodology by statute. The bill would further express the intent of the Legislature that specified programs be reimbursed under a unified structure that takes into account a common set of rate elements, that base rates be administered as a per-child amount, and that rate levels be informed by, and rates vary based on, specified criteria. (7) Existing law also requires, for California state preschool programs and childcare and development programs, the State Department of Education and the State Department of Social Services to collaborate to implement a reimbursement system plan that establishes reasonable standards and assigned reimbursement rates. Existing law requires the reimbursement rate to be increased by the above-described cost-of-living adjustment, except for specified fiscal years, including the 2024–25 fiscal year. This bill would, commencing July 1, 2026, require the cost-of-living adjustment for state preschool programs to be consistent with the adjustment granted by the Legislature annually, as specified. The bill would additionally suspend the annual cost-of-living adjustment for the 2025–26 fiscal year. (8) Existing law requires, commencing January 1, 2022, those California state preschool program contractors and childcare and development program contractors who, as of December 31, 2021, received the established standard reimbursement rate to be reimbursed at the greater of the 75th percentile of the 2018 regional market rate survey or the contract per-child reimbursement amount as of December 31, 2021, as increased by a specified cost-of-living adjustment. This bill would instead require, commencing July 1, 2025, and through June 30, 2026, if the program is open and operating in accordance with its approved program calendar and remains open and providing services to certified children throughout the program year, the contract reimbursement to be based on the lesser of the maximum reimbursable amount stated in the contract and the net reimbursable program costs. The bill would also require, commencing July 1, 2026, the contract reimbursement to be based on the lesser of the maximum reimbursable amount stated in the contract, the net reimbursable program costs, or the product of the adjusted child days of enrollment for certified children times the contract rate set forth in the above-described provisions. (9) Existing law also requires the State Department of Social Services, in the administration of childcare and development programs, to contract with local contracting agencies for a variety of alternative payment programs for childcare services to be provided throughout the state. Existing law requires alternative payment programs to reimburse childcare providers based upon actual days and hours of attendance. This bill would, beginning July 1, 2025, and through June 30, 2026, instead require those programs to reimburse childcare providers based on families' certified need, as specified, and would appropriate $88,550,000 from the General Fund for this purpose. (10) Existing law authorizes family childcare providers to form, join, and participate in the activities of provider organizations and to seek the certification of a provider organization to act as the representative for family childcare providers on matters related to childcare subsidy programs pursuant to a petition and election process overseen by the Public Employment Relations Board or a neutral third party designated by the board. Existing law requires the Governor and a certified provider organization to jointly prepare a memorandum of understanding if an agreement is reached, which is required to be presented to the Legislature for determination, and which would be binding on all state departments and agencies, and their contractors and subcontractors, and any political subdivision of the state, that are involved in the administration of state-funded early care and education programs. If the above-described reimbursement rate provisions are in conflict with a memorandum of understanding between the Governor and a certified provider organization, the bill would require the memorandum of understanding to be controlling without further legislative action, except as specified. (11) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.

(1) Existing federal law provides for the federal Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) , known in California as CalFresh, under which supplemental nutrition assistance benefits allocated to the state by the federal government are distributed to eligible individuals by each county. Existing law establishes a statewide electronic benefits transfer (EBT) system, administered by the State Department of Social Services, for the purpose of providing financial and food assistance benefits, including CalFresh benefits. Existing law establishes the California Fruit and Vegetable EBT Pilot Project and requires the department, in consultation with specified entities, to include within the EBT system a supplemental benefits mechanism that allows an authorized retailer to deliver and redeem supplemental benefits and to provide grants for pilot projects to implement and test the mechanism in existing retail settings. Existing law requires the department to evaluate the pilot projects and make recommendations to further refine and expand the supplemental benefits mechanism, as specified. This bill would require the department to evaluate the pilot projects that operated pursuant to the above-described provisions between February 1, 2023, and January 31, 2025, as specified. Existing federal law, through Disaster SNAP, provides for short-term food assistance benefits to families suffering in the wake of a major disaster. Existing law requires the State Department of Social Services and the county human services agency, if the President of the United States issues a major disaster declaration for individual assistance, to request to operate a federal Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP) for the regions affected by the major disaster. Existing uncodified law, in the event of a declaration by the Governor or the President of the United States of a major disaster, continuously appropriates to the department from the General Fund an amount necessary to cover specified costs relating to the administration of disaster assistance services, but not to exceed $300,000 per disaster declaration. This bill would codify that funding provision. (2) Existing law requires each county to provide cash assistance and other social services for needy families through the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids (CalWORKs) program using federal Temporary Assistance to Needy Families (TANF) block grant program, state, and county funds. Under existing law, a county is required to annually redetermine eligibility for CalWORKs benefits and, at the time of redetermination, require the family to complete a certificate of eligibility. Existing law additionally requires the county to redetermine recipient eligibility and grant amounts on a semiannual basis and requires the recipient to submit a semiannual report form during the first semiannual reporting period following the application or annual redetermination of eligibility. Existing law requires, to the extent permitted by federal law, the State Department of Social Services to implement the semiannual reporting system, including the use of the semiannual report form, in the CalFresh program. Existing law requires the department to work with specified entities to develop and implement system changes that would prepopulate the semiannual report. Existing law requires counties to provide recipients with a prepopulated semiannual report form instead of a blank form. This bill would instead, to the extent permitted by federal law, require counties to provide recipients with a prepopulated semiannual report, either via mail or electronically, at the election of the recipient, instead of a blank form. The bill would require the department to complete final policy guidance for changes to the prepopulated semiannual report by August 15, 2025. To the extent that this bill would expand county responsibilities under the CalWORKs program, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (3) Existing federal law, the Community First Choice Option (CFCO) program, authorizes states to provide home- and community-based attendant services and supports to eligible Medicaid enrollees, as specified. Existing federal law provides federal financial participation for a state that provides services under the CFCO program. Existing state law establishes the In-Home Supportive Services (IHSS) program, administered by the State Department of Social Services and counties, under which qualified aged, blind, and disabled persons are provided with services in order to permit them to remain in their own homes. Existing law requires the state and counties to share the annual cost of providing IHSS pursuant to a specified cost ratio. Existing law requires all counties to have a rebased County IHSS Maintenance of Effort (MOE) and requires the rebased MOE to be adjusted for the annualized cost of increases in provider wages, health benefits, or other benefits, as prescribed. If the state ceases to receive federal financial participation for the provision of services, existing law requires the rebased County IHSS MOE to be adjusted to require a county to pay a 35% share of the enhanced federal financial participation that would have been received. This bill would, commencing July 1, 2026, require a county to pay, separate from the rebased County IHSS MOE payment, a 100% share of the enhanced federal financial participation that would have been received if the state ceases to receive that funding for the provision of services due to noncompliance of timely case reassessment for the federal CFCO program. The bill would, for the 2025–26 fiscal year, require the state and county to each pay 50% of the amount of that lost enhanced federal financial participation. The bill would require the department to develop guidance to implement these provisions. (4) Existing law requires the state, through the State Department of Social Services and county welfare departments, to establish and support a public system of statewide child welfare services to be developed as rapidly as possible and to be available in each county of the state. Existing law requires family maintenance services to be provided or arranged for by county welfare department staff, in order to maintain a child in their own home. Existing law identifies the categories of families to which these services are available. Existing law defines a "child and family team" as a group of individuals who are convened by the placing agency and who are engaged through a variety of team-based processes to identify the strengths and needs of the child or youth and their family, and to help achieve positive outcomes for safety, permanency, and well-being. Existing law defines a "child and family team meeting" as a convening of all or some members of the child and family team that may be requested by any member of the child and family team. This bill would require, beginning July 1, 2025, all county child welfare agencies to convene child and family team meetings for children and youth receiving family maintenance services. By increasing the duties of county child welfare agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law establishes the Adoption Assistance Program (AAP) , administered by the State Department of Social Services, to benefit children residing in foster homes by providing the stability and security of permanent homes. Existing law requires the department or the county, whichever is responsible for determining the child's AAP eligibility, to assess the needs of the child and the circumstances of the family, with the amount of a cash benefit being determined based on those factors. Existing law authorizes payment to be made on behalf of an otherwise eligible child in a state-approved group home, short-term residential therapeutic program, or residential care treatment facility if the department or county responsible for determining payment has confirmed that the placement is necessary, and, if the placement is out-of-state, requires the facility to be eligible for Title IV-E funded placements in the state in which it is situated. This bill would authorize AAP payments for placement in an out-of-state residential treatment facility, as defined, if one or more of the adoptive parents reside in the state in which the residential treatment facility is located and the responsible public agency, as defined, has confirmed that placement is necessary. The bill would require counties, commencing September 1, 2025, and annually thereafter, to provide specified information to the department regarding out-of-state residential treatment facilities and the children placed in those facilities, and would require the department to provide guidance to counties regarding steps necessary to document the requirements of these provisions. By imposing duties on counties, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law prohibits the AAP rate paid on behalf of the child for these placements from exceeding the rate paid for a short-term residential therapeutic program. Existing law establishes a Tiered Rate Structure, as specified, upon which the per child per month rate for every child in foster care is based, which includes 3 components, including an amount paid to the foster care provider for care and supervision of the child, a strengths building allocation to provide for a child's strengths building objectives, and an immediate needs allocation to provide for the child's immediate needs, and establishes payment tiers, as specified. Existing law requires the 3 components of the Tiered Rate Structure to become operative on July 1, 2027, or the date that the department notifies the Legislature that the California Statewide Automated Welfare System can perform the necessary automation to implement the Tiered Rate Structure, whichever is later. The bill would prohibit the AAP rate for an out-of-state residential treatment facility from exceeding the lesser of the rate paid for a foster care placement in a short-term residential therapeutic program or the rate determined by the ratesetting authority in the state in which the out-of-state residential treatment facility is located. Upon the 3 components of the Tiered Rate Structure becoming operative, this bill would instead prohibit the AAP payment rate from exceeding the lesser of the sum of the 3 components of the Tiered Rate Structure or the rate determined by the ratesetting authority in the state in which the out-of-state residential treatment facility is located. (5) Existing law establishes the Juvenile Justice Realignment Block Grant program to provide county-based custody, care, and supervision of youth who are realigned from the Division of Juvenile Justice or who would have otherwise been eligible for commitment to the division. Existing law appropriates moneys from the General Fund for the 2021–22, 2022–23, 2023–24, 2024–25, and 2025–26 fiscal years in specified amounts for these purposes, and specifies how those funds are to be allocated to counties based on specified criteria. Existing law requires the Governor and the Legislature to work with stakeholders to establish a distribution methodology. This bill would make an appropriation for the 2025–26, 2026–27, 2027–28, and 2028–29 fiscal years from the General Fund in the amount of $208,800,000 each year and specify the by-county distribution methodology for each fiscal year, as specified. The bill would require, by January 10, 2030, the Office of Youth and Community Restoration to review the formula within these provisions and report to the Legislature with an assessment of the formula's efficacy in meeting the Legislature's intent to implement public health approaches to support positive youth development and outcomes, build the capacity of a continuum of community-based approaches, and reduce recidivism. In order to be eligible for funding under the Juvenile Justice Realignment Block Grant program, existing law requires a county to create a subcommittee of the multiagency juvenile justice coordinating council, as specified, to develop a plan describing facilities, programs, placements, services, supervision and reentry strategies needed to provide appropriate rehabilitation and supervision services for youth who were eligible for commitment to the division. Under existing law, the plan is required to include specified information, including a detailed facility plan. This bill would additionally require the plan to include a description of less restrictive programs used by the county and an accounting of all expenditures for funding during the prior fiscal year, as specified. Existing law establishes the Board of State and Community Corrections, with the mission of providing statewide leadership, coordination, and technical assistance to promote effective state and local efforts and partnerships in California's adult and juvenile criminal justice system. Existing law requires the judge of the juvenile court of a county to inspect any jail, juvenile hall, lockup, special purpose juvenile hall, camp, ranch, or secure youth treatment facility that was used for the confinement of a juvenile for more than 24 hours in the preceding calendar year, as specified. Existing law requires the court to notify the operator of the facility of any observed noncompliance, and make a finding of suitability of the facility for the confinement of juveniles. Existing law requires the board to conduct a biennial inspection of each jail, juvenile hall, lockup, special purpose juvenile hall, camp, ranch, or secure youth treatment facility, as specified, and notify the operator of the facility of any noncompliance. This bill would prohibit a county board of supervisors from allocating funding pursuant to the Juvenile Justice Realignment Block Grant to any juvenile hall, camp, ranch, or secure youth treatment facility that is, or at any time during the prior fiscal year was, unsuitable and used for the confinement of youth on any day when the facility was prohibited by law from being used for the confinement of youth. The bill would authorize the county board of supervisors to withhold funding from any entity that is, or at any time during the prior fiscal year was, operating an unsuitable juvenile hall, camp, ranch, or secure youth treatment facility and is confining or did confine one or more youth in the unsuitable facility on any day when the facility was prohibited by law from being used for confinement of youth, as specified. (6) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. (7) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.

(1) Existing law establishes the Higher Education Student Housing Grant Program to provide one-time grants for the construction of student housing, or for the acquisition and renovation of commercial properties into student housing for the purpose of providing affordable, low-cost housing options for students enrolled in public postsecondary education in the state. Existing law requires the University of California to fund project grants using revenue bond funding issued by the University of California for certain projects. This bill would require the University of California to fund construction grants for 2 specified student housing projects using revenue bond funding issued by the University of California. (2) Existing law establishes the California Kids Investment and Development Savings (KIDS) Program, under the administration of the Scholarshare Investment Board, for the purposes of expanding access to higher education through savings, as provided. Existing law requires the governing body of a school district, county office of education, or charter school to confirm that a grade 12 pupil who has not opted out, as specified, completes and submits a Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or, if the pupil is exempt from paying nonresident tuition under existing law, completes and submits a form for purposes of the California Dream Act, as provided. Commencing with the 2025–26 school year, this bill would require the governing body of a local educational agency to provide each pupil and the pupil's parent or legal guardian with information about the KIDS Program and the pupil's potential eligibility for that benefit, as provided. By imposing new duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Existing law, for the 2023–24 and 2024–25 fiscal years, requires the Scholarshare Investment Board to partner with the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Riverside County Office of Education to explore ways to increase participation in the KIDS Program. Existing law requires the board, on or before September 30, 2025, and in collaboration with those local educational agencies, to report certain information to the Department of Finance and the Legislature related to those partnerships. This bill, for the 2025–26 to 2029–30 fiscal years, inclusive, would require the board to partner with the Riverside County Office of Education and the San Diego Unified School District to explore ways to increase participation in the KIDS Program. The bill would require the board, on or before September 30, 2029, in collaboration with those local educational agencies, to submit an additional report with the same information related to those partnerships to the Department of Finance and the Legislature. (3) Existing law requires the California State University, and requests the University of California, to establish a model uniform set of academic standards for high school courses for admission recognition, as specified, and to develop and implement, by January 1, 2006, a process for high schools to obtain approval of their courses meeting California State University and University of California admissions requirements, as provided. This bill would instead require the California State University, and request the University of California, to begin working on establishing the above-described model uniform set of academic standards on or after October 1, 2025, and would require the model uniform set of academic standards to also be established for college-level coursework taken for credit at a California public college or university by a pupil simultaneously enrolled in high school, as provided. The bill would require the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to post on its internet website the model uniform set of academic standards for college-level coursework taken for credit at a California public college or university, as provided. (4) The Ortiz-Pacheco-Poochigian-Vasconcellos Cal Grant Program establishes the Cal Grant A and B Entitlement Awards, the California Community College Expanded Entitlement Awards, the California Community College Transfer Entitlement Awards, the Competitive Cal Grant A and B Awards, the Cal Grant C Awards, and the Cal Grant T Awards under the administration of the Student Aid Commission, and establishes eligibility requirements for awards under these programs for participating students attending qualifying institutions. Under existing law, an otherwise qualifying institution with a 3-year cohort default rate that is equal to or greater than 15.5% is ineligible for initial and renewal Cal Grant awards at the institution, as specified, with certain exceptions. Existing law requires the commission to certify by November 1 of each year a qualifying institution's latest 3-year cohort default rate and graduation rate as most recently reported by the United States Department of Education, except for the 2024–25 academic year existing law requires the commission to use the 3-year cohort default rate certified in 2020 for an otherwise qualifying institution. This bill would require the commission to also use the 3-year cohort default rate certified in 2020 to certify an otherwise qualifying institution for the 2025–26 and 2026–27 academic years. Existing law requires each participating institution, as a condition for its voluntary participation in the Cal Grant Program, to annually report to the commission specified information regarding its undergraduate programs. Existing law requires the commission to provide on its internet website the information submitted by a Cal Grant participating institution pursuant to the reporting requirement described above and other information and links that are useful to students and parents who are in the process of selecting a college or university. This bill would authorize the systemwide central office of a public postsecondary educational institution acting on behalf of the participating institution to annually report to the commission the information regarding the institution's undergraduate programs, as provided. The bill would modify the data required to be reported to the commission, establish an alternative method for reporting that data, and require the data reported to the commission to be reported in a manner that complies with applicable federal and state laws to protect individual privacy, as specified. (5) Existing law establishes the Golden State Teacher Grant Program under the administration of the Student Aid Commission. For applications received under the program on July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025, inclusive, existing law requires the commission to provide one-time grants of up to $10,000 to each student enrolled in a professional preparation program leading to a preliminary teaching credential or a pupil personnel services credential if the student commits to working at a priority school or a California preschool program for 2 years within 4 years following the date the student completes the professional preparation program, as specified. The bill would extend the availability of those grant program funds to applications received under the program on July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2026, inclusive. By expanding the time in which applications can be received under the program, which is funded by an existing appropriation, the bill would make an appropriation. (6) Existing law establishes the Hire UP Pilot Program and authorizes, subject to an appropriation, the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to enter into agreements with up to 10 community college districts to provide funding for stipends to formerly incarcerated individuals, CalWORKs recipients, and former foster youth. Existing law requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to submit an annual report on or before March 1 to the Legislature on the pilot program's implementation, as provided. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2029. This bill would instead make these provisions inoperative on March 15, 2029, and repeal them on January 1, 2030. The bill would require the chancellor to submit an additional report on the pilot program's implementation on March 1, 2029. Existing law establishes the Native American Student Support and Success Program under the administration of the chancellor's office to provide various services for Native American students. Existing law authorizes the chancellor's office to enter into agreements with up to 20 community colleges to provide grants to those participating colleges for the purpose of developing local Native American student support and success programs and delivering matriculation services for Native American students, as provided. Existing law requires the chancellor's office to develop and submit an annual report on before September 1 to the Governor and the Legislature based on certain data and information relating to grants provided under the program, as reported by participating community colleges, and information on the use of program funds. This bill would instead require the chancellor's office to develop and submit those reports triennially until September 1, 2030, as specified. (7) Existing law requires the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges to adopt regulations providing for the payment of apportionments to community college districts on a specified schedule. This bill, notwithstanding the provision referenced above, would adjust the payment of apportionments to community college districts for the 2025–26 fiscal year to defer $408,363,000 of those payments to the 2026–27 fiscal year in accordance with a designated schedule. The bill would appropriate that amount to the board of governors for apportionments to community college districts for expenditure in the 2026–27 fiscal year, as specified. (8) Existing law authorizes the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to establish the Rising Scholars Network to enter into agreements with up to 65 community colleges to provide additional funds for services in support of postsecondary education for justice-involved students, as defined. This bill would authorize the chancellor's office to enter into agreements with all community colleges, rather than up to 65 community colleges. (9) Existing law requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to establish, by March 31, 2019, an initiative to expand the use of course credit at the California Community Colleges for students with prior learning. Existing law required the chancellor to submit, by January 1, 2020, a report on the initiative to the Legislature. Existing law establishes the California Cradle-to-Career Data System to be a source for actionable data and research on education, economic, and health outcomes for individuals, families, and communities, and to provide for expanded access to tools and services that support the navigation of the education-to-employment pipeline. Existing law establishes a governing board to govern the data system and the Office of Cradle-to-Career Data as the managing entity required to implement and manage the data system. This bill would establish the California Career Passport Program to be administered by the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, in partnership with the Office of Cradle-to-Career Data and the Labor and Workforce Development Agency, for the purpose of developing a Career Passport that provides individuals with a secure digital tool that displays their preparation for employment, academic records, and credit for prior learning, as specified. The bill would require the program to accomplish specified goals, including providing individuals access to their aggregated information for use in applying for employment and in training at no or low cost to them, as specified. The bill would require the chancellor's office to convene agency and employer representatives to identify technical and policy considerations for building the secure digital tool, and to engage with business and industry leaders collaboratively to ensure Career Passports are useful to, and used by, California's employers, as specified. This bill would appropriate $25,000,000 from the General Fund to the board of governors to support the development of the program, as specified. The bill would require the chancellor's office to develop and report to the Department of Finance and the fiscal committees of the Legislature a timeline establishing target dates for key deliverables for the program, as specified. The bill would require the chancellor's office to collect data on development metrics for the Career Passport, and submit a preliminary report on that data and a final report on student and employer use data to the Department of Finance and all relevant fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature, as specified. (10) The California Private Postsecondary Education Act of 2009 provides for student protections and regulatory oversight of private postsecondary institutions in the state. The act is administered by the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education within the Department of Consumer Affairs. The act establishes the Student Tuition Recovery Fund as a continuously appropriated fund to relieve or mitigate economic loss suffered by a student while enrolled in an institution who, at the time of the student's enrollment, was a California resident or was enrolled in a California residency program, prepaid tuition, and suffered economic loss, as defined. The act establishes the Office of Student Assistance and Relief within the bureau to, among other things, assist students with submitting Student Tuition Recovery Fund claims to the bureau. This bill would authorize the bureau to use moneys in the Student Tuition Recovery Fund to cover the costs of Student Tuition Recovery Fund claim administration and positions of the Office of Student Assistance and Relief. By expanding the purposes for which moneys from a continuously appropriated fund may be expended, the bill would make an appropriation. (11) Existing law imposes a filing fee of $605 to file a notice of appeal in a civil case. Existing law, until January 1, 2025, required that $65 of this fee be deposited into the former California State Law Library Special Account for the support of the California State Law Library. This bill would reestablish the California State Law Library Special Account and would require, until July 1, 2030, $65 of each notice of appeal fee to be deposited into the California State Law Library Special Account for the support of the California State Law Library upon appropriation. The bill would specify that this requirement is intended to apply retroactively to January 1, 2025. (12) The Budget Act of 2023 made appropriations for local assistance to the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges for the 2023–24 fiscal year, including $3,037,990,000 for apportionments. This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2023 by reducing the appropriation made to the board of governors for apportionments by $67,001,000. (13) The Budget Act of 2024 made appropriations for local assistance to the board of governors for the 2024–25 fiscal year, including $3,904,892,000 for apportionments. This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2024 by increasing the appropriation made to the board of governors for apportionments by $10,822,000. (14) The Budget Act of 2024, among other things, reappropriates $12,000,000 to the board of governors to support the development of e-Transcript California, as provided. This bill would appropriate $6,558,000 from the General Fund to the board of governors to support the development of e-Transcript California pursuant to that provision. (15) This bill would appropriate $5,100,000 from the General Fund to the board of governors to provide grants through a community college district to California community-based organizations for financial aid outreach and application assistance supporting current and prospective community college students, as provided. (16) This bill would appropriate $20,000,000 from the General Fund to the board of governors to support emergency financial assistance grants to students attending a community college, as specified. (17) Existing law requires the California Community Colleges to designate on each of its campuses a Dreamer Resource Liaison to assist students in meeting certain requirements to be exempt from paying nonresident tuition by streamlining access to all available financial aid and academic opportunities for those students. This bill would appropriate $15,000,000 from the General Fund to the board of governors to support Dreamer Resource Liaisons in assisting students, as described above. (18) The Budget Act of 2022, among other things, appropriates $10,000,000 to the board of governors to support the California Healthy School Food Pathway program, as provided. This bill would appropriate $10,000,000 from the General Fund to the board of Governors to support the California Healthy School Food Pathway program. (19) This bill would appropriate $10,000,000 from the General Fund to the board of governors for transfer to a community college for allocation to the California Firefighter Joint Apprenticeship Council to conduct Emergency Medical Technician and Paramedic Preapprenticeship Training Academies. (20) This bill would appropriate $125,000 from the General Fund to the board of governors for allocation on a one-time basis to Santa Rosa Junior College for the construction of a fire academy tower. (21) Existing law requires the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to establish, by March 31, 2019, an initiative to expand the use of course credit at the California Community Colleges for students with prior learning. Existing law required the chancellor to submit, by January 1, 2020, a report on the initiative to the Legislature. This bill would appropriate up to $15,000,000 from the General Fund to the board of governors to support the Credit for Prior Learning Initiative, a systemwide initiative to award degree-applicable or certificate-applicable credit for prior learning opportunities at each campus, as provided. (22) This bill would appropriate $60,000,000 from the General Fund to the board of governors to establish the Student Support Block Grant. The bill would require the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges to allocate the funds to community colleges pursuant to a specified formula. The bill would authorize community college districts to use the allocated funds for certain purposes, including, among other purposes, for assistance to students with food, housing, transportation, and other basic needs. (23) This bill would appropriate $5,000,000 from the General Fund to the board of governors for allocation to community colleges that are members of the Los Angeles Regional Consortium to assist with workforce recovery efforts and career technical education workforce development associated with the Los Angeles regions' recovery from the Palisades and Eaton fires. (24) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. (25) The funds appropriated by this bill would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution, as specified. (26) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.

(1) Existing law establishes the Office of the Inspector General, which is responsible for, among other things, contemporaneous public oversight of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation investigations and staff grievance inquiries conducted by the department's Office of Internal Affairs. Existing law establishes within the office the California Rehabilitation Oversight Board, which consists of 11 members. Existing law requires the board, among other things, to regularly examine the various mental health, substance abuse, educational, and employment programs for incarcerated persons and parolees operated by the department. This bill would repeal the provisions establishing the board and its responsibilities. Existing law also requires the Inspector General to conduct an oversight and inspection program to periodically review delivery of the reforms identified in a specified document released by the department in 2012. This bill would remove the requirement that the Inspector General conduct that oversight and inspection program. The bill would also make conforming changes. Existing law requires the department to establish the California Reentry and Enrichment (CARE) Grant program to provide grants to community-based organizations that provide rehabilitative services to incarcerated individuals. Existing law requires the department to establish a CARE Grant program steering committee, which establishes grant criteria, select grant recipients, and determine grant amounts and the number of grants. Existing law requires the members of the committee to include, among others, a member from the Office of the Inspector General who is familiar with the work and objectives of the California Rehabilitation Oversight Board. This bill would delete the provisions requiring a member from the Office of the Inspector General. (2) Existing law establishes the Council on Criminal Justice and Behavioral Health within the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation for the investigation and promotion of cost-effective approaches to meeting the long-term needs of adults and juveniles with behavioral health disorders who are likely to become offenders or who have a history of offending. Existing law supports county activities that will divert individuals with serious mental illnesses away from the criminal justice system, as specified, and requires the State Department of State Hospitals to, among other things, consult with the council to evaluate county proposals to help fund the development or expansion of mental health diversion, as specified. This bill would repeal the provisions that establish the council and make other conforming changes, including deleting the above-described requirement that the State Department of State Hospitals consult with the council to evaluate county proposals relating to mental health diversion. (3) Existing law creates the Recidivism Reduction Fund in the State Treasury, to be available upon appropriation by the Legislature, for activities designed to reduce the state's prison population, including, but not limited to, reducing recidivism. Existing law requires funds in the Recidivism Reduction Fund that were not encumbered by June 30, 2016, to revert to the General Fund and abolishes the fund when all encumbered funds are liquidated. Existing law requires, upon agreement to accept funding from the Recidivism Reduction Fund, a county board of supervisors, in collaboration with the county's Community Corrections Partnership, to develop, administer, collect, and submit data to the Board of State and Community Corrections regarding a competitive grant program intended to fund community recidivism and crime reduction services, including, but not limited to, delinquency prevention, homelessness prevention, and reentry services. Under existing law, commencing with specified fiscal years, the funding was allocated to counties based on a specified schedule. This bill would repeal the provisions mentioned above. (4) Existing law establishes the Board of State and Community Corrections and sets forth its powers and duties, including, among other things, collecting and maintaining available information and data about state and community correctional policies, practices, capacities, and needs. Existing law, commencing January 1, 2013, and annually thereafter, requires the board to collect and analyze available data regarding the implementation of local plans relating to the 2011 Public Safety Realignment and other outcome-based measures, as specified. Existing law, by July 1, 2013, and annually thereafter, requires the board to provide a report on the implementation of those plans to the Governor and the Legislature. This bill would delete the provisions requiring the board to collect and analyze data regarding the implementation of local plans, as specified, and to provide a report on the implementation of those plans to the Governor and the Legislature. Existing law requires the Board of State and Community Corrections to conduct a biennial inspection of each jail, juvenile hall, lockup, special purpose juvenile hall, camp, ranch, or secure youth treatment facility, as specified. Existing law specifies that a juvenile facility is unsuitable for the confinement of juveniles if the facility is not in compliance with one or more of the minimum standards for juvenile facilities adopted by the board and the facility has failed to file an approved corrective action plan with the board. Existing law requires, if a juvenile facility does not resolve the noncompliance issues outlined in its corrective plan, the board to make a determination of suitability at its next scheduled meeting. Existing law prohibits the facility from being used to confine juveniles if it is not being operated and maintained as a suitable place for the confinement of juveniles. This bill would authorize the board to delegate authority to approve or disapprove a corrective action plan to the board's executive director or a deputy director. The bill would, if that authority is delegated, require the delegee to approve or disapprove the corrective action plan in accordance with criteria and considerations established by the board and require the board to subsequently ratify or overrule the corrective action plan. The bill would also authorize the board to bring a civil action to enforce compliance with minimum standards for juvenile facilities or closure in the superior court in the county in which a facility is located. (5) Existing law requires the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to implement literacy programs in the state prison. Existing law requires the department to make college programs available for the benefit of inmates with a general education development certificate or equivalent or a high school diploma and requires those college programs to only be provided by the California Community Colleges, the California State University, the University of California, or other regionally accredited, nonprofit colleges or universities. This bill would authorize those college programs to be provided by accredited public or nonprofit colleges or universities outside of the state, as specified. Existing law requires an inmate who is enrolled, pursuant to these provisions, in a full-time college program consisting of 12 semester units, or the academic quarter equivalent, of credit-bearing courses leading to an associate degree or a bachelor's degree to be deemed by the department to be assigned to a full-time work or training assignment. This bill would instead require an inmate enrolled in a degree-granting college or university program, as specified, to receive the same privileges as an inmate with a full-time work or training assignment. (6) Existing law requires any person employed or under contract to provide mental health diagnostic, treatment, or other mental health services in the state correctional system to be a physician and surgeon, psychologist, or other health professional, licensed to practice in this state, except as specified. Existing law authorizes the Secretary of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to waive that requirement for persons in the professions of psychology or social work who are gaining qualifying experience for licensure in that profession in this state. For persons employed less than full time as psychologists or clinical social workers, existing law authorizes an extension of a waiver to be granted for additional years proportional to the extent of part-time employment, as provided, but prohibits the waiver from exceeding 6 years in the case of clinical social workers or 5 years in the case of psychologists. This bill would additionally allow mental health professionals to be employed or under contract to provide mental health diagnostic, treatment, or other mental health services in the state correctional system. The bill would authorize the secretary to additionally waive that requirement for persons in the professions of marriage and family therapy or professional clinical counseling who are gaining qualifying experience for licensure in those professions. The bill would additionally authorize an extension of a waiver to persons employed less than full time as marriage and family therapists or professional clinical counselors and prohibit the waiver from exceeding 6 years for those professions. (7) Existing law generally provides for the control and prevention of tuberculosis. Existing law requires various state entities, including the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, to meet and confer with recognized employee organizations, as specified, to develop rules regarding the mandatory examination or testing for tuberculosis of the staff of those entities. Existing law prohibits a person from being employed by the department unless that person, after an offer of employment, completes an examination, test, or medical evaluation and is found to be free of tuberculosis prior to assuming work duties. As a condition of continued employment with the department, existing law requires employees who are skin-test negative to receive an examination or test at least once a year, or more often if directed by the department, for as long as the employee remains skin-test negative. Existing law defines various terms for purposes of these provisions. This bill would revise and recast the above-described provisions to require the department to develop rules regarding the mandatory examination or testing for tuberculosis of its staff, as specified. The bill would require a person who is employed by the department and whose primary job functions require them to work inside an institution to complete baseline TB screening and testing and provide a certificate to the department within seven days of appointment to their position showing they are free of active tuberculosis. The bill would require specified employees to receive annual TB screening and ensure that certificates are submitted and accepted by the department, as specified. The bill would authorize the department to require more frequent TB screening or testing, as specified, if there is a known exposure or ongoing transmission within an institution. The bill would delete obsolete definitions, update other definitions, and define additional terms, including "annual TB screening" and "baseline TB screening and testing." Existing law requires volunteers of the department, prior to assuming their duties and annually thereafter, to furnish the department with a certificate showing that they have been examined and found to be free of tuberculosis. Existing law requires employees from other state agencies who are assigned to work in an institution to comply with prescribed requirements for tuberculosis control and requires the department to offer examinations, tests, or medical evaluations to those employees. Existing law prohibits the department from discriminating against an employee because the employee tested positive for tuberculosis. Existing law requires specified state entities, including the department, to report to the State Department of Health Care Services the results of these tuberculosis examinations. This bill would delete those provisions. (8) Existing law defines those persons who are peace officers in the state, grants certain authority to those individuals and their employing entities, and places certain requirements on those individuals and their employing entities. Existing law also grants specified limited arrest authority to certain other persons, including federal criminal investigators and park rangers and peace officers from adjoining jurisdictions. Existing federal law authorizes tribal governments to employ tribal police for the enforcement of tribal law on tribal lands. Existing federal law requires the State of California to exercise criminal jurisdiction on Indian lands. Existing state law deems a tribal police officer who has been deputized or appointed by a county sheriff as a reserve or auxiliary deputy to be a peace officer in the State of California. This bill would, from July 1, 2026, until July 1, 2029, establish a pilot program under the Department of Justice and the Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training granting peace officer authority to certain tribal police officers on Indian lands and elsewhere in the state under specified circumstances. The bill would authorize the department to select 3 tribal entities to participate, would set certain minimum qualifications and certification and training requirements for a tribal officer to act pursuant to this authority, and would place certain requirements on the employing tribe, including a limited waiver of sovereign immunity, and the adoption of a tribal law or resolution authorizing that exercise of authority and providing for public access to certain records. The bill would require the Department of Justice to provide ongoing monitoring and evaluation and to prepare and submit reports to the Legislature, as specified. Existing law authorizes a county to establish an interagency domestic violence death review team to assist local agencies in identifying and reviewing domestic violence deaths, including homicides and suicides, and facilitating communication among various agencies involved in domestic violence cases. Under existing law, an oral or written communication or a document provided by a third party to a domestic violence review team is confidential and not subject to disclosure or discovery. This bill would authorize a tribe participating in this pilot program to establish a domestic violence death review team subject to the applicable provisions of this law. This bill would also authorize participating tribes to enter into an agreement to share liability and collaborate on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Persons cases. This bill would create the Tribal Police Pilot Fund in the State Treasury to, upon appropriation by the Legislature, assist program participants with the cost of information technology necessary for complying with reporting requirements for law enforcement agencies. This bill would provide for implementation of all of these provisions only upon an appropriation by the Legislature for these purposes. (9) The bill would appropriate $5,000,000 for the 2025–26 fiscal year from the General Fund to the Department of Justice for purposes of administering the Tribal Police Pilot Program pursuant to Article 2.45 (commencing with Section 11073) of Chapter 1 of Title 1 of Part 4 of the Penal Code, as specified. (10) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.

The Budget Act of 2025 would make appropriations for the support of state government for the 2025–26 fiscal year. This bill would amend the Budget Act of 2025 by amending, adding, and repealing items of appropriation and making other changes. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a Budget Bill.

(1) Existing law, the Lanterman Developmental Disabilities Services Act, requires the State Department of Developmental Services to contract with regional centers for the provision of services and supports for persons with developmental disabilities and their families. Under existing law, the services and supports are contained in an individual program plan (IPP) , as specified. Existing law requires the department to implement a statewide Self-Determination Program, available in every regional center catchment area to provide participants and their families, within an individual budget, with increased flexibility and choice, and greater control over decisions, resources, and needed and desired services and supports to implement their IPP. Existing law prescribes the process for allocating funds to, and within, the participant's individual budget. This bill would make various changes to the Self-Determination Program, including, among others, establishing the participants' individual budget generally based on the services authorized instead of being based on purchase of service expenditures, requiring a regional center to certify that participants' spending plans satisfy certain criteria, and requiring the department to establish statewide standardized processes and procedures for the program, with community input, no later than March 1, 2027. (2) Under existing law, contracts between the department and regional centers require regional centers to maintain specified service coordinator-to-consumer ratios and have expertise in certain topics in order to serve consumers. Existing law requires the department, through contracts, to require regional centers to implement implicit bias training, as specified. Existing law authorizes the training to be procured by the department or by a regional center that has obtained prior approval by the department. This bill would make the departmental training requirements subject to an appropriation by the Legislature for that purpose. The bill would also state the intent of the Legislature that regional centers continue to implement the implicit bias training to the extent they are able to, in the absence of a state appropriation. (3) Existing law required the department, between April 1, 2022, and January 1, 2025, to incrementally implement rate reform to increase rates paid to developmental service providers. Existing law requires, in conjunction with the rate reform, the department to implement a quality incentive program that includes the development of a quality incentive payment structure for providers meeting quality measures or benchmarks, or both. This bill would require, beginning in the 2026–27 fiscal year, a provider to be compliant with electronic visit verification, home- and community-based services rules, and applicable annual fiscal reviews and audit requirements as a condition of eligibility for the quality incentive program. Existing law requires the department to implement a hold harmless policy, as specified, for providers whose rates exceed rate model recommendations, to freeze a provider's existing rates until June 30, 2026, and to subsequently adjust the provider's rates to equal the rates for other providers in the provider's service category and region. Existing law requires the department, beginning January 1, 2025, to implement a similar hold harmless policy for providers whose rates in effect on January 1, 2023, exceed 90% of the rate model. This bill would shift the expiration date of the rate freezes to February 28, 2026. Existing law requires that regional centers receive specialized funding allocations to facilitate applications for payments authorized to protect the health and safety of consumers, as specified, for non-English-speaking individuals served. This bill would make that requirement subject to an appropriation by the Legislature. (4) Existing law requires the department to assess a monthly fee to parents of children under 18 years of age who are receiving 24-hour out-of-home care services through a regional center or who are residents of a state hospital when the family's gross income is above 200% of the federal poverty level, as specified. This bill would repeal those provisions relating to the monthly parental fee. The bill would also make technical, conforming changes. (5) Existing law requires a regional center consumer to be referred to a provider of habilitation services if they are determined to be in need of habilitation services, among other factors. Existing law authorizes a regional center to vendor a new work activity or supported employment program after determining the capacity of the program to deliver effective services and assessing the ability of the program to comply with the requirements of CARF, the Rehabilitation Accreditation Commission, as defined. Existing law also defines additional terms relating to habilitation services, including group services to mean job coaching in a group supported employment placement at a job coach-to-consumer ratio of not less than 1 to 3 nor more than 1 to 8 where services to a minimum of 3 consumers are funded by specified entities. This bill would update the definition of CARF to mean the Commission on Accreditation of Rehabilitation Facilities. The bill would also update the definition of group service to include a coach-to-consumer ratio of not less than 1 to 2 instead of 1 to 3 and would also instead require a minimum of 2 consumers to be funded by specified entities. Existing law authorizes regional centers to purchase habilitation services only from providers who are accredited community nonprofit agencies that provide work activity services or supported employment services, or both, and that have been vendored according to the provisions listed above. This bill would remove the requirement that the providers be accredited community nonprofit agencies that provide work activity services or supported employment services, or both. Existing law sets the hourly rate for supported employment services provided to consumers receiving individualized services and for group services at $36.57 and requires job coaching hours for group services to be allocated on a prorated basis between a regional center and the Department of Rehabilitation when consumers are served in the same group. Existing law also requires that a new work activity program receive the statewide average rate, as determined by the department. This bill would remove the hourly rate for both supported employment services and group services and would instead require the department to set a rate and post the rate to its internet website. The bill would also remove the requirements that job coaching hours for group services be allocated on a prorated basis and that a new work activity program receive the statewide average rate, and would instead require that the program receive the rate posted on the department's internet website. (6) Existing law authorizes a consumer to choose a tailored day service or vouchered community-based training service, in lieu of, or in conjunction with, any other regional center vendored day program, look-alike day program, supported employment program, or work activity program. Existing law requires the hourly rate for the tailored day service option to be calculated in a specified manner. Existing law requires that hourly rate to remain in effect pending the department's review, as specified, and requires the review to be completed by June 30, 2024. This bill would end use of the above-described calculation methodologies on June 30, 2025, and, commencing on July 1, 2025, would require the hourly rate for the tailored day service option for vendored programs to be set by the department and posted on its internet website. (7) Existing law requires the Secretary of California Health and Human Services, in coordination with the department, to lead the development and implementation of the Master Plan for Developmental Services for the state. Existing law requires the secretary to solicit input through the Master Plan for Developmental Services Committee and submit to the Governor and the Legislature an initial report summarizing the recommended components of the master plan, as specified. Existing law requires the secretary and the Director of Developmental Services to work with other state agencies, as necessary, to identify policies, efficiencies, and strategies necessary to implement the master plan. Existing law requires the secretary to annually submit master plan implementation updates to the Governor and the Legislature, as specified. This bill would require the Master Plan for Developmental Services Committee to meet at least 2 times each year, as specified, and would set forth the information to be included in the initial report and recommendation updates, including, among other things, a narrative summary of the master plan committee meetings. (8) This bill would appropriate $2,789,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Developmental Services for project planning activities at regional centers associated with the Life Outcomes Improvement System. Under the bill, these funds would be available for encumbrance or expenditure through June 30, 2026. (9) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.

(1) Existing law requires the Judicial Council to sponsor a pilot program for 2 fiscal years to study whether increases in juror compensation and mileage reimbursement rates increase juror diversity and participation. Existing law requires the Judicial Council to provide a report to the Legislature describing the findings of the pilot program and providing information for promoting juror diversity by September 1, 2026. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2027. This bill would repeal these provisions. (2) Existing law requires the Administrative Office of the Courts, an obsolete entity, to perform specified functions. Under existing law, any reference to the Administrative Office of the Courts means the Judicial Council. This bill would revise references to the Administrative Office of the Courts to the Judicial Council. (3) Existing law requires the Judicial Council to annually report to the Department of Finance, the Legislature, and the Joint Legislative Budget Committee the total amount of revenue collected in the prior fiscal year, by each court and county, from criminal fines, fees, forfeitures, penalties, restitution fines, and assessments related to infractions, misdemeanors, and felonies, as specified. This bill would require the Judicial Council to annually, on or before February 1, provide a report to the Legislature on the operations of each trial court that includes specified operational and budgetary metrics for the prior fiscal year, including, among others, backlogs and staff vacancies. (4) Existing law requires the Judicial Council to report all approved allocations and reimbursements to trial courts in each fiscal year, as specified, on or before September 30 following the close of each fiscal year. This bill would instead require the report to be submitted on or before February 1 each year. (5) Existing law authorizes the Judicial Council to sell specific courthouses at fair market value and upon the terms and conditions the Judicial Council deems in the best interests of the state. This bill would authorize the Judicial Council to sell additional specified courthouses. (6) Existing law requires the Judicial Council to collect and maintain statistics, and to publish them at least on a yearly basis, about the compliance of the superior court of each county and each branch court with the standards of timely disposition, as specified. Existing law requires, on or before November 1, 2007, the Judicial Council to adopt, and report to the Legislature annually thereafter, judicial administration standards and measures that promote the fair and efficient administration of justice, as specified. Existing law requires the Judicial Council to present an annual report to the Legislature on the use of the State Trial Court Improvement and Modernization Fund, with appropriate recommendations. This bill would delete these requirements for the Judicial Council and make a conforming change. (7) This bill would appropriate $4,690,000 from the General Fund to the State Court Facilities Construction Fund to provide a one-time backfill. (8) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.

(1) Existing law requires a county board of education, on or before July 1 of each fiscal year, to adopt an annual budget for the budget year and file the budget with the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the county board of supervisors, and the county auditor. Existing law requires the Superintendent to examine the budget and, on or before September 15, approve, conditionally approve, or disapprove the budget, as specified. Under existing law, in the event of the conditional approval or disapproval of the budget of a county office of education, the county superintendent of schools and the county board of education are required, on or before October 8, to review and respond to the Superintendent's recommendations, including any revisions to the adopted budget and other proposed actions to be taken, if any, as a result of those recommendations, as provided. This bill would require the Superintendent to, in addition to examining the budget of a county office education, review and consider studies, reports, evaluations, or audits of the county office of education that were commissioned by specified entities that contain evidence that the county office of education is showing fiscal distress according to specified standards and criteria or that contain a finding by an external reviewer that the county office of education is at moderate or high risk of intervention, as provided. The bill would additionally authorize the Superintendent to conditionally approve or disapprove a budget that does not provide adequate assurance that the county office of education will meet its current and future obligations and resolve any problems identified in the studies, reports, evaluations, or audits, as specified. (2) Existing law requires the Superintendent to notify the county board of education and the county superintendent of schools in writing if the Superintendent determines that a county office of education will be unable to meet its financial obligations for the current or subsequent fiscal year, as provided. If the Superintendent makes that determination or if the county office of education has a negative certification, existing law requires the Superintendent to, as necessary to enable the county office of education to meet its financial obligations, take one or more specified actions. Existing law requires a county office of education to pay 75% of fees charged by the Superintendent for administrative expenses incurred for undertaking the required actions or for costs associated with improving the county office of education's financial management practices and requires the other 25% to be covered by the Superintendent. This bill would revise certain provisions related to the above-described requirements, including, among other things, by requiring the Superintendent to additionally notify the president of the State Board of Education, or the president's designee, if the Superintendent determines that a county office of education will be unable to meet its financial obligations, as provided, including if a county office of education experiences a significant fiscal event that is determined by the Superintendent to have an immediate severe fiscal impact that will cause a county office of education to be unable to meet its financial obligations for the current or subsequent fiscal year. The bill would revise and recast the provision related to fees and costs to instead require a county office of education to pay 75% of, and the Superintendent to pay 25% of, specified administrative expenses incurred or costs associated with improving the county office of education's financial management practices. (3) Existing law establishes the California Prekindergarten Planning and Implementation Grant Program as a state early learning initiative with the goal of expanding access to classroom-based prekindergarten programs. Existing law appropriates $300,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education in both the 2021–22 fiscal year and the 2022–23 fiscal year for allocation to local educational agencies as base grants, enrollment grants, and supplemental grants, as specified. Existing law authorizes the department to allocate or prorate unexpended funds returned by or collected from a grant recipient for grants to local educational agencies for costs associated with the educational expenses of current and future California state preschool program, transitional kindergarten, and kindergarten professionals that support their attainment of required credentials, permits, or professional development in early childhood instruction or child development, including developing competencies in serving inclusive classrooms and dual language learners, as provided. This bill would extend the encumbrance, expenditure, and reversion periods for those grant funds, as specified, thereby making an appropriation. (4) The Early Education Act establishes the California Universal Preschool Planning Grant Program with the goal of expanding access universally to preschool programs for 3- and 4-year-old children, as provided. The act requires the Superintendent to develop and administer a grant process and award grant funds to each county that applies for funding, as provided. This bill would extend the expenditure and reversion periods for those grant funds, as specified, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would also extend the deadline by 3 years for a report to be submitted by the Superintendent to the Department of Finance and the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature on the expenditure of funds and relevant outcome data in order to evaluate the impact of the grants awarded under this program. (5) Existing law establishes the Inclusive Early Education Expansion Program for the purpose of increasing access to inclusive early care and education programs. Existing law appropriates $250,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for allocation to local educational agencies for purposes of this program. Existing law authorizes the Superintendent to allocate up to $50,000,000 of the $250,000,000 to address state-level systems building and align local practice with the research and practice-based strategies that best promote pupil outcomes and program quality. This bill would instead reduce the above-described allocation to $10,000,000. (6) Existing law appropriates $2,836,660,000 in the 2021–22 fiscal year from the General Fund to the Superintendent to administer the California Community Schools Partnership Program and requires those funds to be available for encumbrance or expenditure until June 30, 2032. Existing law requires up to 72% of the funds to be available for implementation grants and at least 18% to be available for extending implementation grants, as provided. This bill would authorize funds initially made available for implementation grants that are returned to the State Department of Education to be available for extending implementation grants. By expanding the purposes for which previously appropriated moneys may be expended, the bill would make an appropriation. (7) Existing law requires the Controller to draw warrants on the State Treasury throughout each year in specified amounts for purposes of apportioning funding to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools. Existing law requires warrants in the amount of $245,604,000 scheduled to be drawn in June of the 2024–25 fiscal year to instead be drawn in July of the same calendar year, except as provided. This bill would require the amount of the warrants scheduled to be drawn in June of the 2024–25 fiscal year to instead be $245,604,000, or the total June principal apportionment payment, whichever is less. The bill would require, for the 2025–26 fiscal year, warrants for the principal apportionments for the month of June in the amount of $1,874,781,000, or the total June principal apportionment payment, whichever is less, to instead be drawn in July of the same calendar year, except as provided. (8) Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene State School Building Lease-Purchase Law of 1976, authorizes the State Allocation Board to apportion state funding to applicant school districts for designated school facilities construction purposes. Existing law creates a county school lease-purchase fund in the county treasury within each county for each school district project in the county. Existing law authorizes funds to be expended from the county school lease-purchase fund by the applicant school district only when specifically authorized by the board for either direct project costs or reimbursements, except as provided. Existing law prohibits the board from approving any projects pursuant to the Leroy F. Greene State School Building Lease-Purchase Law of 1976 and requires the board to only approve and fund school facilities construction projects pursuant to the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998, except as provided. This bill would provide that all funds, including any interest earned on funds, in a county school lease-purchase fund for a school district that remain in the fund on and after January 1, 2026, shall not be reported or returned to the state and would authorize the interest to be used by the school district for capital outlay expenditures for school construction. By authorizing those state funds to be expended by a school district, the bill would make an appropriation. (9) The Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 provides for the adoption of rules, regulations, and procedures, under the administration of the Director of General Services, for the allocation of state funds by the State Allocation Board for the construction and modernization of public school facilities. The act, among other things, provides that a school district is eligible for health and safety funding to replace, reconstruct, or construct new classrooms and related facilities if the school district demonstrates there is a threat to the health and safety of pupils, as provided. This bill would separately authorize a school district to apply for hardship assistance in cases of extraordinary circumstances, as specified. (10) Existing law creates the Learning Recovery Emergency Fund in the State Treasury for the purpose of receiving appropriations for school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and community college districts related to the state of emergency declared by the Governor on March 4, 2020, relating to the COVID-19 pandemic. Existing law appropriates $6,345,405,000 from the General Fund to the department for transfer to the Learning Recovery Emergency Fund. Existing law requires the Superintendent to allocate these appropriated funds to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, as provided. This bill would appropriate an additional $378,650,000 from the General Fund to the department for transfer to the Learning Recovery Emergency Fund, to be allocated by the Superintendent to those local educational agencies operating in the 2025–26 fiscal year, as provided. (11) Existing law establishes the department, under the administration of the Superintendent, and assigns to the department numerous duties relating to the financing, governance, and guidance of the public elementary and secondary schools in this state. This bill would require, no later than September 30, 2026, the state board to approve and the department to post on its internet website criteria and guidance for the selection or development of inservice professional development programs for effective means of teaching literacy in transitional kindergarten, kindergarten, or any of grades 1 to 5, inclusive, with a list of inservice professional development programs that have been deemed to meet those criteria. The bill would appropriate $200,000,000 from the General Fund to the department to make available to local educational agencies to expend from the 2026–27 fiscal year to the 2029–30 fiscal year, inclusive, for purposes of training certificated and classified staff who provide literacy instruction, or who support any teacher who provides literacy instruction, using the professional development programs that meet the criteria and guidance, as provided. The bill would require recipient local educational agencies to report specified information to the department, and would require the department to submit a summary of this information to the Legislature and the Department of Finance, as provided. (12) Existing law requires the accounting system used to record the financial affairs of a school district to be in accordance with the definitions, instructions, and procedures published in the California School Accounting Manual, as approved by the state board and furnished by the Superintendent. This bill would require the accounting system used to record the financial affairs of any local educational agency, as defined, to be designed to provide a separate accounting of expenditures related to actual payments of legal settlements, judgments, or special assessments by a joint pooling arrangement, as a result of specified childhood sexual assault claims and a separate accounting of those expenditures as a result of all other civil claims, as provided. To the extent the bill would impose additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (13) Existing law appropriates $50,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to apportion to the Orange County Department of Education to award no less than $30,000,000 as grants to local educational agencies for the purpose of funding schoolwide and districtwide implementation of services or practices aligned to the Multi-Tiered Systems of Support framework. Existing law requires the grants to be awarded on or before December 15, 2021, and any funds not awarded on or before December 15, 2021, to be available for the Orange County Department of Education, in consultation with the Superintendent and the executive director of the state board, to award as grants to local educational agencies on or before December 15, 2022. This bill would require funds not awarded on or before December 15, 2022, to be available for the Orange County Department of Education to provide support to local educational agencies impacted by the fire-related state of emergency proclaimed by the Governor in January 2025, as provided. The bill would authorize the Orange County Department of Education to expend up to 15% of those funds for administrative costs. By expanding the purposes of a previous appropriation, the bill would make an appropriation. To the extent the bill would impose additional duties on the Orange County Department of Education, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (14) Existing law requires, not later than May 1 of each fiscal year, the governing board of each local educational agency to provide for an audit of the books and accounts of the local educational agency, including an audit of income and expenditures by source of funds, or make arrangements with the county superintendent of schools having jurisdiction over the local educational agency to provide for that auditing. If the governing board of a school district has entered into a contract for an independent audit of its financial statements and the statements have not been filed according to specified due dates, existing law authorizes the county superintendent of schools to investigate the causes for the delay and initiate a specified action that will provide the required audited financial statements in the most effective manner, including, among other actions, granting an appropriate extension for the completion of the audit and the filing of the audited statements, as provided. This bill would require an extension granted by a county superintendent of schools to be the shortest amount of time reasonable, be in increments of no longer than 45 calendar days, and, collectively, not exceed a total of 90 calendar days from the due date established, as provided. (15) For the 1990–91 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, existing law requires that moneys to be applied by the state for the support of school districts, community college districts, and direct elementary and secondary level instructional services provided by the state be distributed in accordance with certain calculations governing the proration of those moneys among the 3 segments of public education. Existing law makes that provision inapplicable to the 1992–93 to 2024–25 fiscal years, inclusive. This bill would also make that provision inapplicable to the 2025–26 fiscal year. (16) Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to report to the Superintendent during each fiscal year the average daily attendance of the school district for all full school months, as provided. Existing law requires the average daily attendance to be determined by dividing the total number of days of attendance allowed in all full school months by the number of days the schools are actually taught in all full school months, excluding Saturdays or Sundays and excluding weekend makeup classes. Existing law also excludes from those calculations attendance generated through an attendance recovery program. This bill, relative to attendance recovery programs, would instead exclude from those calculations only those weekend and intersession days that generated attendance for an attendance recovery program. (17) Existing law prohibits the Superintendent from making an apportionment for the current fiscal year of state or federal moneys for a county office of education that neglects or refuses to make a county office of education budget or neglects to file specified interim reports, as provided. This bill would additionally prohibit the Superintendent from making an apportionment for a county office of education if the county board of education or county superintendent of schools neglects or refuses to adopt a local control and accountability plan (LCAP) or an annual update to an LCAP, except as provided. (18) Existing law requires the Superintendent to examine a revised budget, as specified, and, not later than November 8, approve or disapprove the revised budget. If the Superintendent disapproves the revised budget, existing law requires the Superintendent to call for the formation of a budget review committee, and requires the budget review committee, on or before November 30, to review the proposed budget, as specified. If a county superintendent of schools disapproves the budget of a school district, existing law requires the county superintendent of schools to call for the formation of a budget review committee, and requires the budget review committee, on or before November 30, to review the proposed budget, as specified. Existing law requires the members of the budget review committee to be reimbursed for their services and associated expenses while on official business, at rates established by the state board. This bill would revise and recast the provision requiring members of the budget committee to be reimbursed to instead require the reimbursement rates to be established by the Superintendent, subject to the approval of the director of the state board, and would prohibit employees of the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team from being eligible for reimbursement. (19) Existing law requires the county superintendent of schools to notify various entities, in writing, if the county superintendent of schools determines that a school district will be unable to meet its financial obligations for the current or subsequent year, as provided. This bill would require the county superintendent of schools to also provide the above-described notification if a school district experiences a significant fiscal event that the county superintendent of schools determines will have an immediate severe fiscal impact that will cause a school district to be unable to meet its financial obligations for the current or subsequent fiscal year. To the extent that this bill would impose additional duties on local officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (20) Existing law prohibits a county superintendent of schools from making an apportionment for the current school year of state or county moneys for a school district if the governing board of the school district neglects or refuses to make a school district budget or neglects to file specified interim reports, as provided. This bill would revise and recast those provisions to, among other things, prohibit a county superintendent of schools from making an apportionment of state, local, or county moneys for a school district if the governing board of the school district or the school district neglects or refuses to adopt an LCAP or an annual update to an LCAP, except as provided. The bill would also apply these provisions to a charter school, as provided. To the extent that this bill would impose additional duties on local officials or local educational entities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (21) Existing law requires school districts and county offices of education to transmit to the State Department of Education, on a timely basis, various reports. If those reports are not submitted to the Superintendent within 14 days after the submission date specified for each report, existing law authorizes the Superintendent to direct the county auditor to withhold payment of any stipend, expenses, or salaries of the district superintendent, county superintendent of schools, or members of the governing board, as appropriate, until the delinquent reports have been submitted, as provided. This bill would additionally require school districts and county offices of education to transmit LCAPs and annual updates to the LCAPs, as provided. The bill would extend those provisions to charter schools. The bill would require schools districts and charter schools to also transmit those reports, plans, and annual updates to the county superintendent of schools on a timely basis, and would authorize the county superintendent of schools to withhold payment of any stipend, expenses, benefits, or salaries and wages of the district superintendent, charter school administrator, or members of the governing board, as appropriate, until the delinquent reports have been submitted, except as provided. To the extent that this bill would impose additional duties on local officials or local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (22) Existing law requires the department, by July 1, 2025, to update a salary and benefit schedule form, as described, to include salary data collection for classified school staff assigned to a schoolsite or sites in the same manner as that data is collected for certificated staff assigned to a schoolsite or sites, and to call this updated form the Salary and Benefit Schedule for the Bargaining Units (Form J–90) . Existing law requires school districts, county offices of education, and direct-funded charter schools, by January 31, 2026, and annually thereafter, to complete the Form J–90 for specified classified and certificated staff assigned to a schoolsite or sites and report the Form J–90 to the department, and authorizes those local educational agencies to complete and report the Form J–90 for prior fiscal years, as provided. Existing law requires the department, by August 31, 2026, and annually thereafter, to report to the Legislature on the progress of school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools in increasing salaries for classified and certificated staff assigned to a schoolsite or sites, as provided. This bill would revise and recast those provisions by instead requiring the department, by July 1, 2026, to create a data collection system for salary and benefits data for represented certificated and classified nonmanagement employees. The bill would require the data collected to include salary, benefits, and full-time equivalent employee counts for certificated employees and for specified classified bargaining unit classifications, which the bill would require to be collected in the same manner as for certificated employees, as determined by the department. The bill would require, by August 31, 2026, and by July 1 annually thereafter, school districts, county offices of education, and direct-funded charter schools to complete the data collection process and to report the data to the department. The bill would require the department, by January 31, 2027, and by November 30 annually thereafter, to report to the Legislature on the progress of school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools in increasing salaries for classified and certificated employees, as provided. By imposing new duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (23) Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for school districts and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law requires funding pursuant to the local control funding formula to include, among other things, a base grant that in each fiscal year is adjusted for inflation by the percentage change in the annual average value of the Implicit Price Deflator for State and Local Government Purchases of Goods and Services for the United States, as specified. Existing law, commencing with the 2022–23 fiscal year, requires the Superintendent to compute an additional add-on for school districts and charter schools of $2,813 for transitional kindergarten, as specified, and requires the add-on to be annually adjusted for inflation commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, as specified. This bill, commencing with the 2025–26 fiscal year, would increase that transitional kindergarten add-on to instead be $5,545, and would require that increased add-on to be annually adjusted for inflation commencing with the 2026–27 fiscal year, as specified. Existing law requires the local control funding formula to include, in addition to the base grant, supplemental and concentration grant add-ons that are based on the percentage of pupils who are unduplicated pupils, as defined to include English learners, pupils eligible for free or reduced-price meals, and foster youth, as specified. Existing law requires school districts and charter schools to annually report their enrollment of unduplicated pupils to the Superintendent, as specified, and requires county superintendents of schools to review and validate that pupil data, as provided. Existing law defines "pupils eligible for free or reduced-price meals" to mean pupils determined to meet federal income eligibility criteria, either through completing an application for the federal National School Lunch Program or through an alternative household income data collection form, or deemed to be categorically eligible for free or reduced-price meals under the federal National School Lunch Program. This bill would revise that definition to also include pupils determined to meet federal income eligibility criteria through a federal Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer for Children (Summer EBT) - compliant Universal Benefit Application. To the extent the bill would impose additional duties on county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools related to reporting unduplicated pupils, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. Notwithstanding any other law, for purposes of the local control funding formula for the 2025–26 and 2026–27 fiscal years only, the bill would require the count of English learner pupils enrolled in transitional kindergarten to be equal to the count of English learner pupils enrolled in kindergarten, as specified. For purposes of state apportionments, if the average daily attendance of a school district, county office of education, or charter school during a fiscal year has been materially decreased during a fiscal year because of an emergency, existing law requires the Superintendent to estimate the average daily attendance in a manner that credits to the school district, county office of education, or charter school the total average daily attendance that would have been credited had the emergency not occurred, as provided. This bill, notwithstanding any other law, for specified charter schools that were damaged, destroyed, or directly impacted as a result of a state of emergency that was declared by the Governor in January 2025, for the 2025–26 fiscal year, would require the Superintendent to calculate the difference between the charter school's certified local control funding formula entitlement in the 2025–26 fiscal year and the 2024–25 fiscal year, as specified, and, if there is a difference, allocate the amount of that difference to the charter school. (24) The Schools and Local Public Safety Protection Act of 2012, an initiative measure approved by the voters at the November 6, 2012, statewide general election, among other things, increased certain tax rates for taxable years beginning on and after January 1, 2012, and before January 1, 2017, and deposited the revenues from those increases in tax into the Education Protection Account. The act provides that all moneys in the Education Protection Account are continuously appropriated for the support of school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and community college districts. These provisions were extended for taxable years before January 1, 2031, by Proposition 55, an initiative measure approved by the voters at the November 8, 2016, statewide general election. This bill would require, in any fiscal year, if a decline in Education Protection Account revenue results in a nontransfer of funds into the Education Protection Account fourth-quarter payment, the Superintendent to recover a local educational agency's overpayment of Education Protection Account funds from the current year's second principal apportionment payment, as provided. (25) Existing law establishes the Public School System Stabilization Account to provide a reserve for public school funding. Existing law requires, pursuant to specified calculations, the Controller to transfer certain moneys from the General Fund into the Public School System Stabilization Account for subsequent allocation to school districts and community college districts, as specified. Existing law requires, in any fiscal year in which the amount required to be applied by the state for the support of school districts and community college districts for that fiscal year is less than the total allocations to school districts and community college districts from General Fund proceeds of taxes appropriated and allocated local proceeds of taxes in the prior fiscal year, as adjusted pursuant to specified calculations, the amount of the deficiency to be appropriated and allocated by the state from the Public School System Stabilization Account for the support of school districts and community college districts. This bill would appropriate, for the 2025–26 fiscal year, $405,291,000 from the Public School System Stabilization Account to the Superintendent for allocation for the local control funding formula, as provided. (26) Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to administer a State Assignment Accountability System to provide local educational agencies with a data system for assignment monitoring. Existing law requires the commission to annually use data it receives from the department to produce an initial data file of vacant positions and assignments that do not have a clear match of credential to assignment. Existing law requires a monitoring authority, as defined, to review and determine any potential misassignments and vacant positions, as defined, reported in and identified through the system for local educational agencies within its authority, as provided. This bill would, among other things, rename the system as the California Statewide Assignment Accountability System and would require the commission to also identify instances of a teacher shortage, as specified, in each instance where, as of Census Day, either (A) a course or class assignment is permanently filled by an employee who is not fully credentialed or who is not appropriately assigned or (B) the local educational agency identifies a vacant position or an unfilled position, as provided. To the extent the bill would impose additional duties on local educational agencies, including in their capacity as monitoring authorities, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (27) Existing law requires the commission to establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law requires the commission to develop, adopt, and administer a reading instruction competence assessment consisting of one or more instruments to measure an individual's knowledge, skill, and ability relative to effective reading instruction, as provided. Under existing law, the passage of one of specified components of the reading instruction competence assessment is a requirement for the issuance of the preliminary multiple subject teaching credential or the preliminary education specialist credential, until the commission ensures that an approved teaching performance assessment assesses candidates for competence in instruction in literacy. Existing law requires the commission to ensure that these teaching performance assessments assess competence in instruction in literacy by July 1, 2025. This bill would additionally authorize the commission to adopt an off-the-shelf assessment that otherwise meets the specified requirements for the reading instruction competence assessment. The bill would authorize credential candidates that are required to pass the reading instruction competence assessment in order to earn the clear credential to take and pass the reading instruction competence assessment on or before October 31, 2025, as provided. Existing law requires the commission to exempt specified preliminary multiple subject credential candidates and preliminary single subject credential candidates who complete specified induction program and service requirements on or before June 30, 2025, from the requirement, and any accompanying regulations, to complete a teaching performance assessment. This bill would require the commission to additionally exempt the above-described credential candidates from the requirement, and any accompanying regulations, to complete a reading instruction competence assessment, as provided. The bill would extend, for purposes of the exemption, the date by which the credential candidates are required to complete the induction program and service requirements by one year. (28) Under existing regulations adopted by the commission, applicants who seek to satisfy a credential, certificate, permit, or waiver requirement by examination are required to meet the passing score requirements established by the commission that were in effect at the time the examination was taken. These regulations also limit the time between the date the score was earned and the issuance date of the applicable credential, certificate, permit, or waiver to 10 years, as provided. This bill would instead establish that an applicant for a preliminary multiple subject teaching credential or a preliminary education specialist instruction credential holds a passing reading instruction competence assessment score prospectively if, within the 10 calendar years following the date the score was earned, the applicant has achieved specified reading instruction competence assessment examination scores, as provided. (29) Existing law establishes the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification Incentive Program under the administration of the State Department of Education to award grants to teachers who have, among other things, attained certification from the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards, as provided. This bill would appropriate, for the 2025–26 fiscal year, $30,000,000 from the General Fund to the department for purposes of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification Incentive Program and for covering National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification fees, as provided. The bill would make those funds available for encumbrance until June 30, 2030, and available for liquidation until June 30, 2034. Existing law appropriates $250,000,000 from the General Fund to the department in the 2021–22 fiscal year for purposes of the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification Incentive Program and for covering National Board for Professional Teaching Standards Certification fees, as provided. Existing law requires those moneys to be available for encumbrance until June 30, 2026, as provided. This bill would instead make those moneys available for encumbrance until June 30, 2030, and available for liquidation until June 30, 2034, thereby making an appropriation. The bill, commencing July 1, 2027, would transfer the administrative duties of the program from the department to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing and would require the department to transfer all unencumbered funds available for the program to the commission to award grants for the program. (30) Existing law requires the commission to adopt standards for the accreditation of postsecondary teacher preparation programs. Existing law prescribes "clinical practice" as one of the commission-adopted standards and requires that teaching credential candidates perform 600 hours of clinical practice throughout the candidate's teacher preparation program, including, as a component of those hours, unpaid student teaching. This bill would establish the Student Teacher Stipend Program under the administration of the commission to support prospective educators, as defined, during their completion 500 or more hours of student teaching, as provided. The bill would require local educational agencies awarded funding pursuant to the program to provide stipends of $10,000 to be paid during the school year in which the credential candidates are completing their student teaching. The bill would require the commission, on or before January 1, 2027, and every year thereafter, to provide a report to the Department of Finance and the appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature regarding the status of the program. The bill would appropriate, for the 2025–26 fiscal year, $300,000,000 from the General Fund to the commission for allocation to support the Student Teacher Stipend Program, and would require $5,000,000 of that amount to be made available to the Kern County Superintendent of Schools for specified purposes, including conducting a related multimedia campaign and the establishment of a grants management system, as specified. Commencing July 1, 2026, to the extent funds are available, the bill would require up to $100,000,000 to be made available annually for the commission to award stipends under the program. (31) Existing law establishes the Teacher Residency Grant Program and appropriates funds from the General Fund to the commission to make one-time grants to develop new, or expand, strengthen, or improve access to existing, teacher residency programs, as provided. This bill would appropriate $70,000,000 from the General Fund to the commission to augment the Teacher Residency Grant Program to support teacher residency programs that recruit and support the preparation of teachers, as provided. (32) Existing law establishes the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program and requires the Superintendent to allocate $2,750 per unit of average daily attendance, as specified, to local educational agencies with a prior fiscal year unduplicated pupil percentage of 75% or more, and requires those local educational agencies, as a condition of receiving that funding, to offer access to expanded learning opportunity programs to all pupils and to provide access to any pupil whose parent or guardian requests their placement in a program. Existing law subjects local educational agencies to an audit, as specified, to determine compliance with those requirements. Existing law prohibits a local educational agency with prior year classroom-based average daily attendance in kindergarten and grades 1 to 6, inclusive, from receiving less than $50,000 under the program in a fiscal year. The bill, commencing with the 2025–26 school year, would (A) lower the unduplicated pupil percentage requirement for funding availability, and its associated funding conditions, from 75% to 55%, (B) revise auditing requirements for certain local educational agencies, as specified, and (C) double the minimum funding for local educational agencies under the program to $100,000 in a fiscal year. The bill would, for the 2025–26 fiscal year only, require the Superintendent to calculate the difference between the prior fiscal year average daily attendance from the first period reported kindergarten and grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and the second period reported kindergarten and grades 1 to 6, inclusive, and, if there is a difference, allocate to the applicable local educational agency the amount of that difference attributable to specified local educational agencies, as provided. (33) Existing law authorizes a school district, county office of education, or charter school, beginning July 1, 2025, to implement attendance recovery programs for pupils to make up lost instructional time and offset absences, as specified. For the purposes of computing average daily attendance for these attendance recovery programs, existing law requires certain minimum daily instructional minute requirements on all local educational agencies, as provided. This bill, for the above-described purpose, would apply different schoolday and instructional minute requirements to county community schools, continuation high schools, juvenile court schools, and community day schools that are applicable to those settings, as provided. (34) 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 assessment for initial identification to be conducted upon the initial enrollment of a pupil, excluding enrollment in a transitional kindergarten program, as provided. Existing law authorizes a school district or charter school to maintain a transitional kindergarten program. This bill would require the Superintendent, by no later than March 31, 2026, to select, subject to the approval of the executive director of the state board, a list of screening instruments that meet specified requirements to support the identification of multilingual learners, as defined, enrolled in transitional kindergarten, as provided. The bill would appropriate $10,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to acquire the selected screening instruments and any training materials, as specified, and to support field tests of the screening instruments. Commencing with the 2027–28 school year, the bill would require a local educational agency that serves pupils in transitional kindergarten to screen those pupils whose primary language is a language other than English, as indicated on a home language survey administered upon the pupil's enrollment, to identify them as multilingual learners using a screening instrument selected by the Superintendent, as provided. (35) Existing law requires a school district or charter school, as a condition of receipt of apportionment for pupils in a transitional kindergarten program, to, among other things, commencing with the 2022–23 school year, maintain an average of at least one adult for every 12 pupils for transitional kindergarten classrooms at each schoolsite and commencing with the 2025–26 school year, maintain an average of at least one adult for every 10 pupils, as provided. Existing law requires the Superintendent to, commencing with the 2022–23 school year, withhold a portion of a school district's or charter school's local control funding formula entitlement if the school district or charter school fails to comply with maintaining an average of at least one adult for every 12 pupils for transitional kindergarten classrooms at each schoolsite, as provided. This bill would, for the 2025–26 school year, and for each school year thereafter, require the Superintendent to withhold a portion of a school district's or charter school's local control funding formula entitlement if the school district or charter school fails to comply with maintaining an average of at least one adult for every 10 pupils for transitional kindergarten classrooms at each schoolsite, as provided. (36) Existing federal law, the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, provides grants to states to carry out activities relating to the education of homeless children and youths, as defined, including, among others, providing services and activities to improve the identification of homeless children and youths and to enable them to enroll in, attend, and succeed in school. Existing law requires, pursuant to specified funding appropriated in the Budget Act of 2024, the State Department of Education to allocate up to $2,500,000 to up to 3 county offices of education to sustain and enhance the operations of technical assistance centers to foster relationships between community partners and local educational agencies in each region. Existing law requires the technical assistance centers to prioritize providing regional support, resources, and expertise to homeless education liaisons to ensure that local educational agencies meet all requirements under the federal McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act, as provided. Existing law requires the technical assistance centers to be operative only for the duration of the availability of certain federal grant funds. This bill would require, pursuant to specified funding appropriated in the annual Budget Act, commencing in the 2025–26 fiscal year, the department to allocate those funds to the above-described technical assistance centers. The bill would eliminate the requirement that the technical assistance centers be operative only for the duration of the availability of those federal grant funds. (37) 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. These graduation requirements include, among others, the completion of 3 courses in social studies, including a one-semester course in economics. Commencing with pupils graduating in the 2030–31 school year, including for pupils enrolled in a charter school, existing law requires the completion of a separate, stand-alone one-semester course in personal finance, that is prohibited from being combined with any other course. Existing law authorizes a pupil who completes a separate, stand-alone one-semester course in personal finance, that is not combined with any other course, to elect to be exempt from the graduation requirement to complete a one-semester course in economics. This bill instead would authorize a local educational agency to exempt a pupil who completes a separate, stand-alone one-semester course in personal finance, that is not combined with any other course, from the graduation requirement to complete a one-semester course in economics. (38) Existing law establishes the Instructional Quality Commission and requires the commission to, among other things, recommend curriculum frameworks to the state board and consider including, when revising the history-social science curriculum framework, age-appropriate information on financial literacy for kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, including, among other things, identifying means to finance college, workforce education, low-cost community college options, and other career technical educational pathways or apprenticeships. Existing law specifies that the financing options covered may include scholarships, merit aid, and student loans. This bill would additionally include the California Kids Investment and Development Savings Program to the list of covered financing options that may be included. (39) Existing law requires the governing board of each school district and county board of education to adopt an LCAP and to update its LCAP before July 1 of each year. Existing law requires the governing body of a charter school to, on or before July 1 each year, hold a public hearing to adopt an LCAP and to update the goals and annual actions to achieve specified goals, as provided. If a school district, county office of education, or charter school is identified as not having adopted an LCAP or an update to an LCAP by July 1, this bill would require the local educational agency to be assessed a financial penalty equal to 20% of the local educational agency's 2nd principal apportionment local control funding formula entitlement, as specified. The bill would provide that for each additional business day that the local educational agency does not adopt an LCAP or an update to an LCAP, the 20% penalty increases by 1%, except that the penalty may not exceed 80%, as provided. The bill would require a financial penalty applied pursuant to these provisions to be modified, as applicable, if the delay is due to a specified event. (40) Existing law requires the state board to adopt specified evaluation rubrics for local educational agencies, and requires, as part of these evaluation rubrics, the state board to adopt performance criteria for local educational agency assistance and intervention, as provided. Existing law appropriates $400,000 from the General Fund to the state board for the 2021–22 fiscal year to solicit and evaluate proposals and contract for an independent evaluation of technical assistance, including an examination of the state's current accountability structures for technical assistance and intervention, as provided. This bill would require the state board to update the performance criteria, no later than July 15, 2026, taking into consideration the findings and recommendations from the above-described evaluation of the state's technical assistance system and its implementation, and the need to appropriately focus resources and supports where the demonstrated needs are greatest. (41) The Budget Acts of 2023 and 2024 each appropriated $2,000,000 to be allocated to 11 regional county offices of education to provide technical assistance to local educational agencies on federal requirements related to English learners, and recommendations for best practices, instructional strategies, and improvement in English language proficiency and state academic standards, as provided. The Budget Act of 2023 requires the department, in consultation with and subject to the approval of the executive director of the state board, to identify metrics to assess the performance of the regional county offices of education in performing the specified duties. This bill, contingent upon specified federal funding appropriated in the Budget Act of 2025 not being available, for the 2025–26 fiscal year, would appropriate $2,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to award to county offices of education serving as regional English learner lead agencies, as provided. Commencing with the 2026–27 fiscal year, the bill would annually appropriate $2,000,000 from the General Fund each fiscal year to the Superintendent for those same purposes. The bill would require the department, for purposes of the 2025–26 fiscal year appropriation, to allocate the funds to the above-described 11 county offices of education serving as regional county office of education English learner specialists, assess their performance education in performing the duties specified according to the metrics approved by the executive director of the state board, and provide a final report to the Department of Finance and the executive director of the state board, no later than December 30, 2026, on the regional county offices of education's performance on these metrics. The bill would require the State Department of Education, on or before July 1, 2026, to select, in consultation with and subject to approval by the executive director of the state board, county offices of education to serve as regional English learner lead agencies, pursuant to a process that ensures that no fewer than 5 and no more than 7 regional English learner lead agencies are selected in a manner that ensures statewide coverage. The bill would require the regional English learner lead agencies to be selected for a term not to exceed 4 years, and would authorize the department, subject to approval by the executive director of the state board, to either renew the selection of the existing regional English learner lead agency or reopen the selection process, as provided. (42) Existing federal law provides for the permanent and nationwide 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 during summer months for grocery benefits. Existing state law requires the State Department of Education to work with the State Department of Social Services to maximize participation in the federal Summer EBT program, as provided. This bill would require schools that participate in the federal School Breakfast Program or National School Lunch Program to establish a pupil's Summer EBT eligibility status through a specified application, as provided. (43) Existing law requires the Superintendent, for the 2021–22 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, to calculate, and the State Department of Education to apportion, certain amounts of funding generated by foster youth, short-term residential therapeutic program placements, and children and youth residing in specified facilities. This bill would instead require, for the 2024–25 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, the Superintendent to calculate the amount of funding generated by short-term residential therapeutic program placements, as well as community treatment facility placements, as defined, based on the average daily population at both short-term residential therapeutic program placements and community treatment facility placements, as provided. The bill would also make conforming changes. (44) Existing law prohibits the governing board of a school district, a county board of education, or the governing body of a charter school from adopting or approving the use of any textbook, instructional material, supplemental instructional material, or curriculum if its use would subject a pupil to unlawful discrimination, as specified. Existing authorizes any person to file a complaint of an alleged violation with the local educational agency using the uniform complaint process or directly with the Superintendent, as provided. If the Superintendent determines that a local educational agency has violated that prohibition and has not taken corrective action within 60 days, existing law authorizes the department to use any means authorized to effect compliance, and requires the assessment of a specified financial penalty on a local educational agency found by the Superintendent to have violated the prohibition, as provided. This bill would revise the financial penalty calculation, as specified. (45) Existing law establishes the California Center for Inclusive College (the center) and annually appropriates, commencing with the 2024–25 fiscal year, $2,000,000 each fiscal year from the General Fund to the Superintendent to, in consultation with the executive director of the state board, allocate to a county office of education selected to administer the center, working in partnership with specified entities. Existing law requires, for the 2024–25 fiscal year, up to $500,000 to be available for the center to convene an advisory workgroup consisting of representatives from at least 2, but not more than 5, existing inclusive college programs throughout the state to consult with the center, as specified. This bill would instead require the Superintendent to select one or more county offices of education to administer the center. The bill would require the center to instead convene an advisory workgroup consisting of representatives from at least 2, but not more than 6, existing inclusive college programs throughout the state to consult with the center, as specified. To the extent that the bill would create new duties for a county office of education, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (46) Existing law requires certain funds appropriated in the annual Budget Act for reimbursement for the cost of a new program or increased level of service of an existing program mandated by statute or executive order to be available as a block grant to school districts, charter schools, and county offices of education, to support specified state-mandated local programs. Existing law provides that a school district, charter school, or county office of education that submits a letter requesting funding to the Superintendent and receives this block grant funding is not eligible to submit a claim for reimbursement for those specified mandated programs for the fiscal year in which the block grant funding is received. This bill would add to the list of programs that are authorized for block grant funding in lieu of program-specific reimbursement to include requirements relating to ensuring pupil compliance with completing the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) or a form for purposes of the California Dream Act, as provided. (47) Existing law, for designated residential development projects, as defined, prohibits a local agency from requiring payment of fees or charges on the residential development for the construction of public improvements or facilities until the date the first certificate of occupancy or first temporary certificate of occupancy is issued, as specified. Existing law authorizes the local agency to require the payment of those fees or charges at an earlier time if certain conditions are met, including, among other things, that the local agency determines that the fees or charges will be collected for public improvements or facilities including, among other things, the construction and rehabilitation of school facilities, if a school district has a 5-year plan, as specified. This bill would instead require, for the construction and rehabilitation of school facilities, the school district governing board to have approved a 5-year school facilities master plan, as provided. (48) The Budget Act of 2017 appropriates $376,200,000 from the Clean Energy Job Creation Fund for allocation by the Superintendent to school districts, county offices of education, state special schools, and charter schools for specified purposes. The act provides that those funds shall be available for encumbrance or expenditure until June 30, 2019. This bill would extend that deadline to June 30, 2026, if either or both of two specified conditions is met, thereby making an appropriation. (49) The Budget Act of 2021, among other things, appropriates $107,069,000 to the department and provides $160,000 of that amount on a one-time basis for the department to contract with a lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning (LGBTQ+) organization to serve as the lead partner to the department in the development of an online LGBTQ+ cultural competency training platform and $275,000 of that amount on a one-time basis for the Superintendent and the selected lead partner to establish an advisory committee to inform the development and content of the LGBTQ+ cultural competency training curriculum to assure that it is culturally competent, comprehensive, and meets the needs of LGBTQ+ students, families, and teachers, as provided. This bill would extend the period that those latter amounts are available for encumbrance to instead be through June 30, 2025, thereby making an appropriation. (50) The Budget Act of 2021, among other things appropriates $50,000,000 to the Superintendent to allocate to the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence to administer evidence-based professional education for educators that can support learning acceleration for California's diverse pupil population, particularly in mathematics, literacy, and language development, as provided, and authorizes those moneys to be available for specified purposes only through the 2025–26 fiscal year. This bill would extend the time the funds appropriated for the purpose described above, including any interest earned by the administrative agent on those funds, are available to be used to instead be until January 1, 2028, thereby making an appropriation. (51) The Budget Act of 2021, among other things, appropriates $253,000,000 to the Department of General Services, and requires $250,000,000 of that amount to be available for a competitive grant program to support regional K–16 education collaboratives that create streamlined pathways from high school to postsecondary education and into the workforce and makes those funds available for encumbrance or expenditure until June 30, 2026. To qualify to receive a grant under the program, existing law requires a regional K–16 education collaborative to meet specified criteria, including, among others, committing to implement at least 4 of 7 recommendations from the February 2021 Recovery with Equity report to promote student success, and committing to creating occupational pathways, including accelerated degree or credential programs that incorporate work-based learning, in at least 2 of 4 specified sectors, based on regional needs. Existing law specifies a June 30, 2026, deadline for those 2 criteria. This bill would, relative to that latter specific criteria, require a regional K–16 education collaborative to commit instead to creating 2 occupational pathways, including either accelerated degree or credential programs that incorporate work-based learning, based on the identification of primary priority sectors in collaboration with the California Jobs First Council. The bill would also delay the deadline for both criteria by 2 years to instead be June 30, 2028. The bill would extend the period that those moneys are available for encumbrance or expenditure to instead be until June 30, 2030, thereby making an appropriation. (52) Existing law appropriates $15,000,000 to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing for the Reading and Literacy Supplementary Authorization Incentive Grant Program to support the preparation of credentialed teachers to earn a supplementary authorization in reading and literacy, as specified. Existing law requires these funds to be available for encumbrance until June 20, 2027. This bill would revise and recast the program by renaming it as the Mathematics Instructional Added Authorization and Reading and Literacy Supplementary Authorization Incentive Grant Program, including mathematics authorizations in the program, as specified, increasing the award amount a participating teacher is eligible to receive and reducing the local match requirements of the program, as provided, and making conforming changes to reporting requirements related to the program. The bill would extend the date the funds are available for encumbrance to instead be June 30, 2030, thereby making an appropriation. (53) Existing law appropriates $600,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for allocation to certain school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to expend on kitchen infrastructure upgrades that will increase a school's capacity to prepare meals served through a federal school meal program, as defined, including for freshly prepared onsite meals, to serve fresh and nutritious school meals using minimally processed, locally grown, and sustainable food, or for expanding meal options for pupils with restricted diets, as specified. Existing law requires, as a condition of receiving funding, each local educational agency to report to the department, on or before June 30, 2025, on how it used the funding. Existing law makes funds allocated to eligible local educational agencies available for encumbrance until June 30, 2025. This bill would extend the reporting deadline and the time those funds are available for encumbrance by one year, thereby making an appropriation. (54) The Budget Act of 2024, among other things, appropriates $130,339,000 to the State Department of Education and makes $770,000 of that amount available on a one-time basis to support costs associated with developing an online training delivery platform and curriculum to support LGBTQ+ cultural competencies for teachers and other certificated employees in grades 7 through 12 by July 1, 2025. This bill would extend the period that the latter amount is available for encumbrance or expenditure to instead be through June 30, 2030, thereby making an appropriation. (55) The Budget Act of 2022 appropriates $4,000,000,000 for the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program and makes those funds available for encumbrance until June 30, 2023, and for liquidation until June 30, 2025. This bill would instead make those funds available for liquidation until July 31, 2025. By extending the period of time in which funds encumbered under existing appropriations may be liquidated, the bill would make an appropriation. (56) Existing law appropriates $4,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to select a county office of education to research models of hybrid and remote learning at public schools across the state and provide guidance, support, and resources to local educational agencies to build their own hybrid and remote learning programs to support innovative learning opportunities and instructional continuity, as specified. This bill would repeal that appropriation. (57) This bill would require, on or before January 31, 2026, the Superintendent, in consultation with the Chancellor's Office of the California Community Colleges, as applicable, to examine and determine the feasibility of streamlining specified career technical education grant application and reporting processes into a single universal application and collecting program reports and data in a consolidated process, and to provide the chairs of the relevant policy committees and budget subcommittees of the Legislature, the executive director of the state board, and the Director of Finance with information, in writing, relating to that streamlining, as provided. The bill would require the Superintendent and the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, on or before October 15, 2025, to each provide related information, as specified. The bill would require the Chancellor, in consultation with the Superintendent, on or before January 31, 2026, to provide information, in writing, with an update on steps that the Chancellor is taking to better align the timelines, application components, and reporting requirements of the K–12 Strong Workforce Program with the identified streamlined application and reporting processes, as specified. (58) The Classroom Instructional Improvement and Accountability Act, an initiative approved by the voters as Proposition 98 at the November 8, 1988, statewide general election, amended the California Constitution to, among other things, set forth a formula for computing the minimum amount of revenues that the state is required to appropriate for the support of school districts and community college districts in any given fiscal year. This bill would require The Director of Finance, as part of the budget submitted to the Legislature by January 10, 2026, to (A) provide an updated estimate of the Proposition 98 funding requirement for the 2024–25 fiscal year and the sum of all previous appropriations counting toward that requirement, (B) identify the additional amount required to meet the Proposition 98 funding requirement in 2024–25 and propose a plan for appropriating that amount, as specified, and (C) account for that amount that is available to support school programs before making any reduction otherwise allowed by law. (59) This bill would put into statute and extend for the 2025–26 school year, certain provisions of executive orders issued by the Governor as a result of a state of emergency that was declared by the Governor in January 2025, including provisions relating to the use by school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools in the County of Los Angeles of temporary facilities located outside of district boundaries, the collection of average daily attendance for those pupils served outside of district boundaries, the suspension of provisions relating to the leasing of local educational agency property to impacted local educational agencies in the County of Los Angeles, the authorization of a site-based charter school within the County of Los Angeles whose schoolsite was damaged or is inaccessible due to the emergency to establish an alternative site anywhere within the County of Los Angeles, and the suspension of any requirement that a classroom-based charter school that provides independent study programs due to facility inaccessibility, damage, or destruction, or pupil displacement, as a result of the emergency, submit a funding determination, pursuant to specified law, and any requirement to obtain a material revision from the chartering authority of the charter school to offer nonclassroom-based instruction. (60) The Budget Act of 2020, among other things, allocates $350,000 of specified appropriated funds to a county office of education selected by the executive director of the state board for the purpose of convening a workgroup that will design a state standardized individualized education program (IEP) template. The Budget Act of 2022, among other things, allocates $200,000 of specified appropriated funds to be available on a one-time basis for the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence to convene a panel to continue refining the IEP template for usability, as provided. Existing law requires the department, by January 1, 2027, or no later than 18 months after the IEP template is converted to a digital platform, whichever date comes first, to translate the IEP template into the top 10 most commonly spoken languages used across the state other than English and, among other things, to make those templates available on its internet website, as provided. This bill would appropriate, for the 2025–26 fiscal year, $1,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to allocate to the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence for the digitization of the above-described IEP template. The bill would require the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, in consultation with the executive director of the state board, to enter into a contract with a California special education student information system vendor to convert the IEP template into a user-dynamic software platform, develop an interactive digital version of the IEP template that is accessible to the public at no cost, and make those digitized templates available to local educational agencies and to the public, respectively, on or before June 30, 2026. The bill would appropriate, contingent upon federal Individuals with Disabilities Education Act funds appropriated in the Budget Act of 2025 for the translations of the digitized state standardized individualized education program template not being available due to a reduction in California's receipt of federal funds, for the 2025–26 fiscal year, $1,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to allocate up to $1,000,000 to a county office of education, subject to the approval of the executive director of the state board, for the translation of the digitized IEP template into the top 10 most commonly spoken languages in California other than English. (61) This bill would require a basic aid school district, as defined, that experiences a decrease in local property tax revenues as a result of the Eaton and Palisades Fires in the County of Los Angeles in January 2025 to be reimbursed from the General Fund by the Controller for losses experienced in the 2024–25 and 2025–26 fiscal years, as provided, thereby making an appropriation. (62) This bill would appropriate, for the 2025–26 fiscal year, $160,000,000 from the General Fund to the department to establish the Universal School Meals Support Grant, as provided. Of that amount, the bill would require (A) $145,000,000 to be made available to award to local educational agencies to expend for specified purposes for the continued implementation of universal school meals, (B) $10,000,000 to be provided to local educational agencies to support the retention and recruitment of food service workers, as specified, and (C) $5,000,000 to be made available to the department to contract with the Marin County Office of Education for a study of, and report on, particularly harmful ultra-processed foods being offered in school meals in California, as provided. (63) This bill would, on or before June 30, 2026, appropriate an amount to be determined by the Director of Finance from the General Fund to the Superintendent in augmentation of a certain item in the Budget Act of 2025. The bill would make these funds available only to the extent that revenues distributed to local educational agencies for special education programs from successor agencies are less than the estimated amount determined by the Director of Finance. The bill would require, on or before June 30, 2026, the Director of Finance to determine if the revenues distributed to local educational agencies for special education programs from successor agencies exceed the estimated amount reflected in the Budget Act of 2025 and, if so, would require the Director of Finance to reduce the specified appropriation in the Budget Act of 2025 by the amount of that excess. (64) This bill would appropriate $1,696,718,000 from the General Fund to the department to establish the Student Support and Professional Development Discretionary Block Grant, for allocation to county offices of education, school districts, charter schools, and the state special schools for discretionary purposes, including, among other things, providing standards-aligned professional development for teachers on the English Language Arts/English Language Development Framework, the Literacy Roadmap, and the Mathematics Framework for California Public Schools and addressing rising costs, as provided. (65) Existing law establishes the Teacher Residency Grant Program and appropriates funds from the General Fund to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to make one-time grants to develop new, or expand, strengthen, or improve access to existing, teacher residency programs that, among other things, support (A) a list of designated shortage fields, or (B) local efforts to recruit, develop support systems for, provide outreach and communication strategies to, and retain a diverse teacher workforce that reflects a local educational agency community's diversity. For the 2022–23 fiscal year, existing law appropriates $184,000,000 from the General Fund to the commission to augment the Teacher Residency Grant Program to support teacher and school counselor residency programs that recruit and support the preparation of teachers and school counselors, as provided. The Budget Act of 2022 also reappropriates $66,000,000 from the Proposition 98 Reversion Account to the Superintendent for transfer to the commission for these purposes. This bill would extend the period that the latter funds are available for encumbrance to instead be until June 30, 2027, and are available for liquidation to instead be until June 30, 2032, thereby making an appropriation, and, for the 2025–26 fiscal year, would make those funds available in reimbursement authority for the commission to receive that funding to augment the Teacher Residency Grant Program, as provided. (66) This bill would establish the Secondary School Redesign Pilot Program to develop and identify effective models of middle and high school redesign, as provided. The bill would appropriate $10,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for the program for allocation to the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence as the lead agency to administer the program. The bill would specify the duties of the lead agency, including, among others, selecting and managing a network of grantees and submitting an evaluation of the pilot program to the Legislature on or before September 1, 2029. The bill would authorize up to $1,000,000 of the appropriated funds to be used by the lead agency for program administration and evaluation, as provided, and would require up to $300,000 of the appropriated funds to be made available to reimburse the Marin County Office of Education, the administrative agent of the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence, for costs associated with the administration of these provisions. The bill would require participating schools and local educational agencies to participate in the pilot program for 2 years, develop and implement programs to redesign middle and high schools to better serve the needs of all pupils, and collect and report data and resources, as provided. (67) Existing law makes specified funds appropriated in the Budget Act of 2023 for the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program, education for adults in correctional facilities, and special education available for encumbrance until June 30, 2024, and for liquidation until June 30, 2026. This bill would instead make those funds appropriated for those purposes in the Budget Act of 2023 available for liquidation until July 31, 2026. By extending the period of time in which funds encumbered under existing appropriations may be liquidated, the bill would make an appropriation. (68) This bill would appropriate $30,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for allocation to the Riverside County Office of Education for allocation to the Special Olympics of Northern and Southern California for specified purposes, as provided, and would require the Riverside County Office of Education to be the fiscal agent for those funds for the Special Olympics of Northern and Southern California. By imposing additional duties on the Riverside County Office of Education, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (69) This bill would appropriate, for the 2025–26 fiscal year, $1,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for allocation to a county office of education to contract with one or more research or nonprofit organizations to study the processes by which other states develop curriculum guidance and to make recommendations about how to improve and streamline California's processes, as provided. (70) This bill would appropriate, for the 2025–26 fiscal year $40,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for allocation to local educational agencies that administer literacy screenings to pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 and 2 for risk of reading difficulties and would require those local educational agencies to expend those funds for the procurement of screening instruments, screening administration, and training for school employees to administer pupil screenings in kindergarten and grades 1 and 2, but excluding transitional kindergarten, in order to assess for risk of reading difficulties using certain approved screening instruments, as provided. (71) This bill would appropriate, for the 2025–26 fiscal year, $250,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to allocate to the administrative agent for the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence to partner with one or more research organizations, institutions of higher education, or other nonprofit organizations with expertise in evidenced-based literacy instruction to develop guidance for the state board to adopt on or before January 31, 2026, to support the follow-up adoption and subsequent implementation of English Language Arts/English Language Development instructional materials by the Instructional Quality Commission and the state board, as provided. (72) This bill would appropriate, for the 2025–26 fiscal year, $215,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to augment the previously established Literacy Coaches and Reading Specialists Grant Program. Of that amount, the bill would require (A) $200,000,000 to be allocated by the Superintendent to local educational agencies for eligible schoolsites, as defined, to develop school literacy programs, employ and develop literacy coaches and specialists, and develop and implement interventions for pupils in need of targeted literacy support, as provided, (B) $15,000,000 to be available for the Superintendent, subject to the approval of the executive director of the state board, to select a county office of education or a consortium of county offices of education with expertise in both literacy instruction and multilingual education, through a competitive process, to provide training for educators to become literacy coaches and provide credentialing opportunities for educators to become reading and literacy and bilingual specialists, as provided. (73) This bill would appropriate, for the 2025–26 fiscal year, $15,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to allocate to the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence to (A) make $7,500,000 available to convene a Statewide Literacy Network to support statewide implementation of evidence-based practices aligned to the English Language Arts/English Language Development Framework, the English Learner Roadmap, the Literacy Roadmap, and the use of data to support effective instruction, as provided, and (B) make $7,500,000 available to convene a Statewide Mathematics Network to support statewide implementation of evidence-based practices aligned to the Mathematics Framework and the use of data to support effective instruction. (74) This bill would appropriate $10,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent to allocate to the county office of education selected to administer the California Dyslexia Initiative to contract with the University of California, San Francisco Dyslexia Center to continue to expand the capacity of a certain reading difficulties screening tool for California's diverse pupil population and to support its use. The bill would make that funding contingent on the maintenance of a reading difficulties screening tool that remains accessible to local educational agencies at no cost to California public schools to be administered to pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 and 2. The bill would prescribe annual summary reporting requirements for the University of California, San Francisco Dyslexia Center, through the designated county office of education, to submit to the department, the Department of Finance, the state board, and the relevant policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature. (75) This bill would appropriate, for the 2025–26 fiscal year, $150,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education, subject to pending legislation. The bill would require the department, upon the signing of that legislation, to transfer the funds to the administering entity identified in the legislation, if applicable, by no later than May 1, 2026. If that legislation is not enacted by January 1, 2026, the bill would instead require the appropriated funds, on or after January 1, 2026, to be used for the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program, as provided. (76) Existing law appropriates $20,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for allocation, subject to the approval of the executive director of the state board, to one or more county offices of education, or consortia of county offices of education, to partner with the California Mathematics Project and other specified entities to develop and deliver educator training, including the training of mathematics coaches, and provide resources to educators on delivering high-quality mathematics instruction to pupils throughout the state pursuant to the curriculum framework for mathematics adopted by the state board, as specified. This bill would appropriate $30,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent for allocation to the Kern County Superintendent of Schools for the Mathematics Professional Learning Partnership to support educator training, including mathematics coaches, teachers, and school administrators for implementation of the new mathematics curriculum framework in local educational agencies. The bill would require the Mathematics Professional Learning Partnership to, among other things, continue to support the California Mathematics Project along with its other existing partners, as specified. The bill would require the Kern County Superintendent of Schools to submit an expenditure plans on behalf of the Mathematics Professional Learning Partnership for to those to the Department of Finance for approval by January 31, 2026. By imposing additional duties on the Kern County Superintendent of Schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. (77) Existing law establishes the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative, administered by the California Health and Human Services Agency and its departments, with the purpose of transforming the state's behavioral health system into an innovative ecosystem in which all children and youth 25 years of age and younger, regardless of payer, are screened, supported, and served for emerging and existing behavioral health needs. Existing law requires, subject to an appropriation, that the initiative include, among other things, school-linked partnership, capacity, and infrastructure grants to qualified entities to support implementation of the initiative for behavioral health services in schools and school-linked settings, as provided. This bill would appropriate $20,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education to allocate to the Sacramento County Office of Education to, in partnership with the Santa Clara County Office of Education, award competitive grants to local educational agencies participating in specified cohorts of the Children and Youth Behavioral Health Initiative that are determined to be qualified, as provided. The bill would require the Sacramento County Office of Education to, on or before March 1, 2026, and in partnership with the Santa Clara County Office of Education, provide a report to the state board, the Department of Finance, the State Department of Health Care Services, the California Health and Human Services Agency, and the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature that includes specified data, including, among other things, the number and amounts of awards granted, as provided. (78) This bill would appropriate $1,200,000 from the General Fund to the Office of Public School Construction to be available for allocation to the West Side Union Elementary School District for capital improvements at West Side Elementary School in the City of Healdsburg. The bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the West Side Union Elementary School District. (79) Existing law provides for emergency apportionments to school districts subject to specified conditions, including, in certain circumstances, the repayment of an emergency loan over a period of no more than 20 years and the appointment by the county superintendent of schools of an administrator who would exercise the powers and responsibilities of the governing board of the school district, as provided. This bill would express the intent of the Legislature to provide emergency apportionment assistance to the Plumas Unified School District, and would require the Plumas County Superintendent of Schools to assume all the rights, duties, and powers of the governing board of the Plumas Unified School District and to appoint, in concurrence with the Superintendent and the president of the state board or their designee, a state administrator to act on behalf of the county superintendent of schools in exercising their authority over the school district, consistent with existing provisions of law applicable to all emergency apportionments, except as otherwise provided. The bill would continue the authority of the county superintendent of schools and the state administrator over the Plumas Unified School District until certain enumerated conditions are met, including the completion of specified recovery plans for the school district. The bill would require the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team (FCMAT) to, among other things, provide specified assistance relating to the development of a multiyear financial recovery plan, the preparation of budget reports, and the recommendation of activities that could enhance revenue or achieve cost savings. The bill would authorize the Plumas Unified School District, through the Superintendent, to request emergency apportionments in the form of cashflow loans from the General Fund for a total of up to $20,000,000. The bill would require the Controller, upon order of the Director of Finance, to draw warrants against the General Fund to the Plumas Unified School District once a loan is approved by the Director of Finance, thereby making an appropriation. The bill would specify conditions to be followed by the school district in receiving the funds and repaying the loans. The bill would authorize the school district to sell property owned by the school district from September 1, 2025, to June 30, 2028, inclusive, and use the proceeds from the sale to reduce or retire the emergency loan, and would prohibit the school district from being eligible for financial hardship assistance under the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998 from September 1, 2025, to June 30, 2028, inclusive. By imposing additional duties on local agencies and officials, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Plumas Unified School District. (80) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that with regard to certain mandates no reimbursement is required by this act for a specified reason. With regard to any other mandates, this bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs so mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. (81) Certain funds appropriated by this bill would be applied toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution. (82) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as a bill providing for appropriations related to the Budget Bill.