SearchFriday, June 6, 2025, marked the deadline for bills to pass out of their house of origin, meaning bills introduced in the Senate must pass off the Senate floor to move to the Assembly and Assembly bills must pass the Assembly floor to move to the Senate. This is a major deadline that determines which bills continue to move through the legislative process. Bills that failed the deadline are now two-year bills and can be considered in January 2026.
Of the 1,533 bills introduced in the Assembly, 934 have passed off the floor. In the Senate, 864 bills were introduced with 600 having passed off the floor. These remaining bills will now be vetted in the opposite house before the end of the legislative session in September.
CASBO Position Bills
For a full list of current CASBO Position Bills, please find them on our website here.
Support
The bills below are supported by CASBO and have advanced off the floor to their second house.
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.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Senate Education Committee
AB 361 (Schultz) Best value procurement: school districts and county offices od education. This bill would expand the best value procurement method for bid evaluation and selection on school construction projects above $1 million to all school districts in California.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Senate Education Committee
AB 503 (Gonzalez, M.) School facilities: Civic Center Act: direct costs. This bill would reinstate the authority of school districts to collect fees for the repair, refurbishment and restoration of their facilities from outside groups who use them pursuant to the Civic Center Act.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Senate Education Committee
AB-606 (Quirk-Silva) Certificated employees: professional services credential: out-of-state applicants. This bill would create reciprocity for qualified out-of-state applicants to receive a professional services credential with a specialization in pupil personnel services
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Senate Appropriations Committee
AB 699 (Stefani) Elections: local tax measures.This bill would expand transparency for local bonds and tax measures while addressing problematic ballot label requirements.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Senate Rules Committee
AB 948 (Flora) School facilities: task-order procurement contracting. This bill allows smaller school districts (ADA of 2,500 or less) and county superintendents of schools to use task-order procurement contracts for services, repairs, and construction projects funded by various sources until January 1, 2031.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Senate Rules Committee
AB 962 (Hoover) Pupil safety: comprehensive school safety plans: use of smartphones. This bill would clarify that any elements of a school safety plan that addresses smart phone use cannot prohibit a student from having a cellphone for the allowable reasons in statute – emergencies, part of an IEP, or prescribed by a doctor.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Senate Education Committee
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 Rules Committee
AB 1111 (Soria) Pupil transportation: schoolbuses: zero-emission vehicles: extensions: scrapping. This bill expands eligibility for a potential ten-year extension of the state’s 2035 zero emission school bus target to include small school districts and adds a lack of charging infrastructure or required maintenance availability as qualifying constraints for an extension.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Senate Rules Committee
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 Education 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 Education Committee
Oppose
The bills below are opposed by CASBO and have advanced off the floor to their second house.
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 or classified employees who are out for pregnancy-related conditions.
CASBO Position: Oppose
Location: Senate Education Committee
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 Rules Committee
AB 374 (Nguyen) K–14 classified employees: payment of wages: itemized statements. This bill would require classified public school employees and classified community college district school employees to be provided with the same information guaranteed to private sector employees on their paychecks.
CASBO Position: Oppose
Location: Senate Appropriations Committee
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 Rules Committee
AB 942 (Calderon) Net energy metering: eligible customer-generators: tariffs. Modifies the terms applicable to customer-generators participating in the Net Energy Metering program (NEM) in two ways: first, requires new property owners inheriting solar systems to take service under the current, not the inherited, NEM tariff; and, secondly, ends the Climate Credit allocations to NEM customers starting on January 1, 2026.
CASBO Position: Oppose
Location: Senate Rules Committee
Note: The bill amendments now exempt public schools or agricultural customers and further conversations are taking place to include property owned or operated by a local education agency.
AB 1109 (Kalra) Evidentiary privileges: union agent-represented worker privilege. This bill would establish that communication between a union representative and an employee has the same protection has attorney-client privilege.
CASBO Position: Oppose
Location: Senate Judiciary Committee
SB 494 (Cortese) Classified school and community college employees: disciplinary hearings: appeals: contracted administrative law judges. This bill would require an impartial third-party hearing officer to hear disciplinary appeals of permanent classified personnel at school or community college non-merit districts. This bill also requires the district to pay for the third-party hearing officer, and for the third-party hearing officer to be jointly selected by the district and the classified employee from a list of arbitrators, unless the parties agree otherwise.
CASBO Position: Oppose
Location: Assembly Public Employment & Retirement Committee
