SearchLast Friday, May 24, 2024, 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 marks another deadline to determine which bills continue to move through the legislative process.
Out of the 1,520 bills introduced in the Assembly, 931 have passed off the floor. In the Senate, 639 bills were introduced with 479 having passed off the floor. These remaining bills will be vetted in the opposite house as we close out the second year of the two-year session.
On May 16, 2024, CASBO’s Legislative Committee deliberated on another round of legislative proposals and this report highlights the status of the proposals the committee has taken throughout the year.
Bills that Moved Forward
Career Technical Education/Workforce Development
AB 2019 (Hoover): Dual enrollment. This bill would require an LEA with a middle college high school or program or an early college high school or program, to, beginning on or before August 1, 2026, and each August 1 thereafter, prepare and submit a report to the California Department of Education with specific information.
Note: Recent amendments removed language that would have expanded the definition of early and middle college high schools to include early and middle college programs established within a high school.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Assembly
Curriculum/Instruction/Assessment
AB 1871 (Alanis): Personal financial literacy for grades 7-12. This bill would add personal financial literacy to the adopted course of study within the social sciences for grades 7-12.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Senate Education Committee
AB 2268 (Muratsuchi) English language proficiency assessment. This bill would exempt students in transitional kindergarten from being assessed for English language development using the English Language Proficiency Assessments for California.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Senate Education Committee
Facilities/Contracting
SB 956 (Cortese): Design-build contracts. This bill would reauthorize K-12 districts to use the design-build delivery method when constructing and designing school facilities and removes the sunset altogether.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Assembly
SB 1374 (Becker): Net energy metering. This bill would require, the California Public Utilities Commission, by July 1, 2025, to ensure that any contract or tariff, as part of the Net Energy Metering program for renewable electrical generation facilities constructed to serve either multiple customers with meters on a single property or multiple meters of a single customer on a property or a set of contiguous properties to be eligible to use or collect their electrical load.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Assembly
Governance/Accountability
SB 1315 (Archuleta): Reporting requirements. This bill would require CDE on or before March 1, 2025, and every two years, provide a report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Governor, and the Legislature on the number and types of reports that LEAs are required to annually submit.
CASBO Position: Co-Sponsor
Location: Assembly
SB 1288 (Becker): AI working group. This bill would require the California Department of Education and Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop and or convene a working group to study Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Assembly
AB 2112 (Muratsuchi): Expanded Learning Opportunities Program. This bill would require that the annual ELOP allocation for those LEAs funded under Rate 2 not be less than the 2022-23 rate of $2,054 per pupil.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Senate
Human Resources
AB 1997 (McKinnor) Teachers’ Retirement Law. This bill would redefine “annualized pay rate” to mean the salary, as described, a person could earn during a school term in a position subject to membership if creditable service were performed for that position on a full-time basis, to be determined pursuant to a publicly available pay schedule by a prescribed method.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Senate
AB 2088 (McCarty): Public postings: vacancies. This bill would require an education employer to accept a current part-time classified employee who meets the minimum qualification of a position with the most seniority, regardless of the prior positions held with the employer.
It would also require classified employees who work part-time assignments that equal the number of hours for a full-time assignment to receive the same benefits as employees who work full-time.
Note: Reintroduction of a different version of AB 1699 (2023)
CASBO Position: Oppose
Location: Senate
AB 2245 (Carrillo): Permanent status: RCOPs. This bill deletes, beginning July 1, 2025, the prohibition on counting service as an instructor at regional occupational centers or programs (ROCPs) toward the service required to attain permanent employee status and instead requires service as an instructor to be included in computing the service required to attain permanent employee status at a school district.
CASBO Position: Oppose
Location: Senate
AB 2901 (Aguiar-Curry): Paid leave. This bill would require a public school employer to provide up to 14 weeks of fully paid leave for certificated or classified employees who are absent due to pregnancy-related conditions.
CASBO Position: Oppose
Location: Senate
SB 1116 (Portantino): Unemployment benefits: trade disputes. This bill would restore eligibility for unemployment benefits after the first 2 weeks for an employee who left work because of a trade dispute.
CASBO Position: Oppose
Location: Assembly
Stalled Bills
The following bills have stalled and are considered “Dead” for the remaining part of this legislative session.
AB 1927 (Alanis): Golden state teacher grant program. This bill would have expanded eligibility for the Golden State Teacher Grant Program to prospective instructors who commit to at least 4 years of work as a credentialed CTE instructor.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Held in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
AB 2652 (Muratsuchi): AI working group. This bill would require the California Department of Education and Superintendent of Public Instruction to develop and or convene a working group to study AI in education.
Note: This bill is similar to SB 1282 (Becker), which continues to move through the legislative process.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Held in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
AB 3106 (Schiavo): COVID-19 protections. This bill would require an education employer to give unlimited COVID-19 leave to their education employee.
CASBO Position: Oppose
Location: Held in the Assembly Appropriations Committee.
What to Expect Next?
As bills are on to the second house, policy committee hearings are beginning to take place.
LAO Release Multiyear Budget Outlook
On May 23, 2024, the Legislative Analyst’s Office (LAO) released a “Multiyear Budget Outlook.” This includes their forecast of the condition of the state General Fund budget through 2027‑28 under their revenue estimates and assumes the Governor’s May Revision policies are adopted. The first section presents their analysis of the budget condition under those assumptions and the second section provides comments.
Below are key highlights:
- Projections indicate that California will experience slight operating deficits over several years, starting with a small deficit in 2025-2026 and growing larger in subsequent years.
- The Governor’s May Revision policies aim to substantially reduce projected deficits, from around $30 billion to an average of under $10 billion, by cutting back on temporary spending and implementing ongoing reductions.
- The LAO estimates that the current year’s budget problem is $7 billion larger compared to the Governor’s May Revision policies, primarily due to the LAO’s lower revenue forecasts.
- The LAO’s projections of the state’s operating deficits are slightly lower than the administration’s, mainly because they estimate lower General Fund spending, particularly in Health and Human Services (HHS) programs, driven by differing growth rate assumptions.
- While both the LAO and the administration predict operating deficits, actual revenue outcomes may vary significantly, with the state budget expected to remain balanced in the short term but facing a higher risk of budget problems in later years.
