Second House Policy Committee Deadline
Friday, July 18th marked the deadline for policy committees to hear bills in the second house.
CASBO Position Bills
List of current CASBO Position Bills
Support
The bills below are supported by CASBO and are still moving through the legislative process.
AB 1224 (Valencia) Teacher credentialing: substitute teachers: days of service.
This bill would extend the period in which a substitute teacher can serve in a single classroom for up to 60 days until July 1st, 2029.
CASBO Position: Support and Co-Sponsor
Location: Senate Appropriations Committee
AB 361 (Schultz) Best value procurement: school districts.
This bill establishes a pilot program allowing the use of best value procurement method for public works projects over $1 million through December 31, 2030, while granting Los Angeles Unified School District permanent status.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Senate Floor
AB 503 (Gonzalez, M.) School facilities: Civic Center Act: direct costs.
This bill would permanently restore provisions of the Civic Center Act, allowing school districts to continue recovering direct costs for the use of non-classroom school facilities and grounds by community organizations.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Senate Floor
AB 606 (Quirk-Silva) Certificated employees: professional services credential: out-of-state applicants.
This bill requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC) to issue a preliminary professional services credential with a specialization in pupil personnel services to an out-of-state eligible applicant.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Senate Appropriations Committee- Suspense File
AB 699 (Stefani) Elections: local tax measures.
This bill would allow a statement about the tax rate, duration of the tax, and amount of revenue raised to appear either on the ballot or in the voter information guide for local tax and bond measures.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Senate Appropriations Committee
AB 962 (Hoover) Pupil safety: comprehensive school safety plans: use of smartphones.
This bill clarifies prohibition on smartphone use of a student in the case of emergency or in response to a perceived threat of danger, if that circumstance is explicitly noted in a comprehensive school safety plan.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Senate Floor
AB 998 (Hadwick) Household hazardous waste: vape pens.
This bill states that vape pens confiscated by schools are treated as household hazardous waste, maintaining this status when properly disposed of at designated collection facilities.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Senate Appropriations Committee
AB 1111 (Soria) Pupil transportation: schoolbuses: zero-emission vehicles: extensions: scrapping.
This bill would exclude a school bus from the scrapping requirement if it is 25 years old or newer at the time of delivery of a replacement vehicle and its ownership be transferred to a frontier LEA or a small school district.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Senate Appropriations Committee
Note: The bill was amended from its original form through policy committees*
SB 374 (Archuleta) Local educational agencies: annual reporting requirements: IDEA Addendum.
This bill deletes the IDEA Addendum to the LCAP, which is now duplicative of the recent changes to the LCAP.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SB 848 (Perez) Pupil safety: school employee misconduct: child abuse prevention.
This bill supports the efforts of local educational agencies to foster safe learning environments and would provide additional tools for the prevention of childhood sexual assault and molestation.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Oppose
The bills below are opposed by CASBO and are still moving through the legislative process.
AB 340 (Ahrens) Employer-employee relations: confidential communications.
This bill would prohibit an employer from questioning an employee or employee representative regarding confidential communications between the employee and employee representative.
CASBO Position: Oppose
Location: Senate Appropriations Committee
AB 374 (Nguyen) K–14 classified employees: payment of wages: itemized statements.
This bill would extend existing Labor Code provisions to public school districts and community colleges classified employees, requiring employers to provide employees with accurate itemized wage statements at the time of each payment.
CASBO Position: Oppose
Location: Senate Appropriations Committee -Suspense File
AB 477 (Muratsuchi) Fair Pay for Educators Act: local control funding formula: base grants: funding targets.
This bill establishes new Local Control Funding Formula (LCFF) base grant targets for the 2036–37 fiscal year and declares the Legislature’s intent to fully fund these targets over time to increase schoolsite staff salaries.
CASBO Position: Oppose
Location: Senate Appropriations Committee – Suspense File
AB 942 (Calderon) Electricity: climate credits.
This bill would establish that residential customers can no longer receive a climate credit if they are not enrolled in the California Alternate Rates for Energy or Family Electric Rate Assistance program and their total electricity bills for the previous year were less than $300.
CASBO Position: Neutral
Location: Senate Appropriations Committee
Note: The bill has been amended drastically from its original form resulting in changing our position from oppose to neutral.
AB 1109 (Kalra) Evidentiary privileges: union agent-represented worker privilege.
This bill would establish that communication between a union agent and a represented employee has the same protection as attorney-client privilege.
CASBO Position: Oppose
Location: Senate Appropriations Committee – Suspense File
AB 1331 (Elhawary) Workplace surveillance.
This bill would limit the use of workplace surveillance by employers, and any violations would be a civil penalty of $500 per employee for each violation.
CASBO Position: Oppose
Location: Senate Appropriations Committee
SB 494 (Cortese) Classified school and community college employees: disciplinary hearings: appeals: contracted administrative law judges.
This bill would require an administrative law judge (ALJ) to hear disciplinary appeals of classified personnel at non-merit K-12 school districts or community colleges. This bill would also require the district to pay for the ALJ, who will be jointly selected by the district, the employee, or the employee’s representative.
CASBO Position: Oppose
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
SB 743 (Cortese) Education finance: Education Equalization Act: Equalization Reserve Account.
This bill would establish the Equalization Reserve Account in the General Fund. And require interest earned on funds in the account to be available to increase per-pupil funding in non-basic aid school districts. The bill would require the Controller, in any fiscal year in which there is an increase over the preceding fiscal year in the minimum amount of revenues the state is required to appropriate for the support of school districts and community college districts, to transfer from the General Fund to the Equalization Reserve Account an amount equal to the total amount transferred from the General Fund to the Public School System Stabilization Account in that fiscal year, as provided.
CASBO Position: Oppose
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
Bills that stalled
AB 65 (Aguiar-Curry) School and community college employees: paid disability and parental leave.
This bill would require a public school employer to provide up to 14 weeks of paid leave of absence for certificated and classified employees who are out for pregnancy-related conditions.
CASBO Position: Oppose
Location: Senate Education Committee
Status: Two-Year bill
AB-917 (Avila-Farias) County offices of education: school districts: average daily attendance of less than 250 pupils: permanent status.
This bill would give tenure to teachers in small LEAs and regional occupational centers and programs (ROCP) after two years, undoing a long-standing agreement that teachers in these settings are not eligible for tenure to maintain flexibility for these LEAs and programs.
CASBO Position: Oppose
Location: Senate Education Committee
Status: Dead
AB 948 (Flora) School facilities: task-order procurement contracting.
This bill would authorize a school district with an average daily attendance (ADA) of 2,500 or less or a county superintendent of schools to award multiple task-order procurement contracts for repair and renovation of buildings and grounds, for a project not exceeding $3 million, through a single request for bids.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Senate Education Committee
Status: Two-year bill
What’s Next
- The Legislature is on Summer Recess until August 18th.
- Bills with fiscal impacts will have to make it out of the Appropriations committees by August 29th and the legislature will adjourn for the year on September 12th.
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