The month of June wrapped up with tense budget discussions and agreements, including finalizing bond discussions intended for the November ballot. On July 3rd, the legislature faced a deadline whereby any bills needing to move forward this legislative year must be heard and passed through policy committees. The first three days of July concluded with 17 committee hearings in the Senate and 13 hearings in the Assembly.
As we are in the second year of a two-year session, any bills that do not move forward are considered “dead”. Most bills have advanced, and the following are CASBO position bills for the 2024 session and their current locations:
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 submit data annually to the California Department of Education (CDE), by August 1, 2026.
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. The sponsors of the bill are hoping the current language will set the stage for expanding the definition next year. Before the amendments, CASBO was supporting AB 2019.
CASBO Position: Neutral
Location: Senate Appropriations
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 Desk
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.
Note: The bill was amended to add the emergency clause.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Signed by the Governor on June 14th.
Facilities/Contracting
AB 247 (Muratsuchi) Education finance: school facilities: Kindergarten Through Community College Public Education Facilities Bond Act of 2024: The K-12 and California Community Colleges school facilities bond totaled $10 billion: $8.5 billion for elementary and secondary school facilities, and $1.5 billion for Community Colleges.
Note: The Assembly has a school facilities bond, and the Senate moved forward with a climate bond. Both will be voted on in November. AB 247 will be Prop 2 on the November ballot.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: The bill was signed by the acting Governor Senator McGuire on July 3rd.
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 Floor – Consent File
SB 1374 (Becker): Net energy metering. This bill would require the California Public Utilities Commission, by July 1, 2025, that any contract or tariff, as part of the Net Energy Metering program for renewable electrical generation facilities constructed, to serve 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 Appropriations Committee
Governance/Accountability
SB 1315 (Archuleta): Reporting requirements. This bill would require CDE on or before March 1, 2025, and every two years thereafter, to 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 Appropriations – Suspense File
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 in education. The guidance on the safe use of AI in education must be developed on or before January 1, 2026. The developed model policy, to be posted on the working group’s website on or before July 1, 2026. A report of findings or recommendations to be submitted on or before January 1, 2027, to the legislature.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Assembly Appropriations Committee
AB 2112 (Muratsuchi): Expanded Learning Opportunities Program. This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish a workgroup to develop and provide recommendations related to funding and operations of Expanded Learning Opportunities Programs in schools to the Legislature by November 1, 2025.
Note: The bill has been significantly amended from its original version, which also stated that the per-student allocation to LEAs receiving “Rate 2” for the Expanded Learning Program be no less than the amount received in the 2022-23 fiscal year.
CASBO Position: Support
Location: Senate Appropriations – Suspense File
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 Appropriations – Suspense File
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: This bill is a reintroduction of last year’s AB 1699.
CASBO Position: Oppose
Location: Senate Appropriations – Suspense File
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 Appropriations – Suspense File
AB 2557 (Ortega): Contracts for special services and temporary help: performance reports: This bill would require, as of July 1, 2025, each board of supervisors that solicits for and enters a specified contract for special services to post that contract and any related documents on its internet website. It would also require, as of July 1, 2026, each contract to include the objectives, desirables, and goals of the contract.
CASBO Position: Oppose
Location: Senate Appropriations – Suspense File
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 Appropriations – Suspense File
Stalled Bills
The following bill stalled due to failing passage in the policy committee and is considered “Dead” for the remaining part of this legislative session.
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 Insurance Committee
What’s Next
- The Legislature is on Summer Recess and will reconvene on August 5th.
- The GR team will be sending out Calls to Action regarding CASBO priority bills as we approach the end of session.
- The appropriations committee deadline is August 16th.
- The Legislature will have until August 31st to send legislation to the Governor’s desk.
- Below are the ballot measures that have been passed and will be seen by the voters for the November 5th election:
- Prop 2 – AB 247 (Muratsuchi): K-14 Education facilities bond.
- Prop 3 – ACA 5 (Low): Mariage equality.
- Prop 4 – SB 867 (Allen): Climate programs bond.
- Prop 5 – ACA 1 (Aguiar-Curry): Local government financing: affordable housing and public infrastructure voter approval.
- Prop 6 – ACA 8 (Wilson): Prohibit slavery in any form.
- Prop 32 – Raises minimum wage to $18.
- Prop 33 – Expands local governments authority to enact rent control on residential property.
- Prop 34 – Restricts spending by health care providers meeting specified criteria.
- Prop 35 – Provides permanent funding for Medi-Cal health care services.
- Prop 36 – Allows felony charges and increases sentences for certain drugs and theft crimes.
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