CA AB 1216
enactedElementary and secondary education: omnibus.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
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Did CA AB 1216 pass?
Yes. CA AB 1216 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2025-07-30): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 88, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA AB 1216 about?
(1) Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to, among other duties, establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law requires the holder of a single subject teaching credential or a standard secondary credential or a special secondary teaching credential who either (A) has completed specified coursework approved by the commission at a regionally accredited institution of higher education in any subject commonly taught in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, other than the subject for which the credentialholder is already certificated to teach, or (B) has been verified as having subject matter competence, as specified, for any subject commonly taught in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, other than the subject for which the credentialholder is already certificated to teach, to be eligible to have that subject appear on their credential as an authorization to teach that subject. This bill would revise the above-described eligibility requirements for a credentialholder to have a subject appear on their credential as an authorized subject for the credentialholder teach by removing the qualification that the subject be one that the credentialholder is not already credentialed to teach. (2) Existing law requires both the adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, to include physical education for a total period of time of not less of than 200 minutes each 10 schooldays, as specified, and the adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to require all pupils to attend upon the courses of physical education for a total period of time of not less than 400 minutes each 10 schooldays, unless an alternate term schedule described below has been adopted or the pupil has been excused or exempted, as provided. Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district maintaining any of grades 6 to 12, inclusive, to adopt a policy providing for an alternate term schedule for physical education courses if certain conditions are met, including, among others, that pupils in grade 6 receive no less than 400 minutes of instruction every 10 days for a semester of not fewer than 18 weeks during the regular school year, for a total of 3,600 instructional minutes for the school year, and that pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, receive no less than 800 minutes of instruction every 10 days for a semester of not fewer than 18 weeks during the regular school year, for a total of 7,200 instructional minutes for the school year. This bill would clarify that the alternative term schedule minimum minute requirements are required to be calculated instead by schooldays. (3) This bill would correct cross references and references to entities.
Who sponsors CA AB 1216?
Committee on Education is the primary sponsor of CA AB 1216.
Description
(1) Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to, among other duties, establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law requires the holder of a single subject teaching credential or a standard secondary credential or a special secondary teaching credential who either (A) has completed specified coursework approved by the commission at a regionally accredited institution of higher education in any subject commonly taught in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, other than the subject for which the credentialholder is already certificated to teach, or (B) has been verified as having subject matter competence, as specified, for any subject commonly taught in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, other than the subject for which the credentialholder is already certificated to teach, to be eligible to have that subject appear on their credential as an authorization to teach that subject. This bill would revise the above-described eligibility requirements for a credentialholder to have a subject appear on their credential as an authorized subject for the credentialholder teach by removing the qualification that the subject be one that the credentialholder is not already credentialed to teach. (2) Existing law requires both the adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, to include physical education for a total period of time of not less of than 200 minutes each 10 schooldays, as specified, and the adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to require all pupils to attend upon the courses of physical education for a total period of time of not less than 400 minutes each 10 schooldays, unless an alternate term schedule described below has been adopted or the pupil has been excused or exempted, as provided. Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district maintaining any of grades 6 to 12, inclusive, to adopt a policy providing for an alternate term schedule for physical education courses if certain conditions are met, including, among others, that pupils in grade 6 receive no less than 400 minutes of instruction every 10 days for a semester of not fewer than 18 weeks during the regular school year, for a total of 3,600 instructional minutes for the school year, and that pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, receive no less than 800 minutes of instruction every 10 days for a semester of not fewer than 18 weeks during the regular school year, for a total of 7,200 instructional minutes for the school year. This bill would clarify that the alternative term schedule minimum minute requirements are required to be calculated instead by schooldays. (3) This bill would correct cross references and references to entities.
- Introduced
- 2025-02-21
- Latest action
- 2025-07-30 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 88, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Sponsors
- Committee on Educationauthor
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Action timeline
Newest first
2025-07-30
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 88, Statutes of 2025.
became-law
2025-07-30
Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature
2025-07-18
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
executive-receipt
2025-07-14
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2531.).
amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-06-27
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-06-27
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1811.).
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-06-24
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
reading-1,reading-2
2025-06-23
From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.
committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2
2025-06-11
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-05-27
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED.
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-05-07
Referred to Com. on ED.
referral-committee
2025-04-24
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
reading-1,referral-committee
2025-04-24
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1279.)
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-04-10
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
reading-1,reading-2
2025-04-09
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 9).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-03-27
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-03-11
Re-referred to Com. on ED.
referral-committee
2025-03-10
Referred to Com. on ED.
referral-committee
2025-03-10
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended.
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-02-24
Read first time.
reading-1
2025-02-22
From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
2025-02-21
Introduced. To print.
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Votes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-03-26 · pass · 9-0
Member-level votes (9)
- Patel: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Addis: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2025-04-09 · pass · 14-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Sanchez: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Solache: yes
- Hart: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Fong: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Ta: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Pellerin: other
AB 1216 Education Consent Calendar Second Day
2025-04-24 · pass · 75-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Ellis: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Fong: yes
- Ward: yes
- Bains: yes
- Berman: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Davies: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Soria: yes
- Ta: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Krell: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Patel: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Lee: yes
- Flora: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Solache: yes
- Alanis: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Addis: yes
- Haney: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Hart: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Papan: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Gallagher: other
- Chen: other
- Lackey: other
- Harabedian: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-06-11 · pass · 6-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Laird: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Choi: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Gonzalez: other
Consent Calendar 2nd AB1216 ED.
2025-06-27 · pass · 38-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Ashby: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Laird: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Grove: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Limón: yes
- Choi: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Niello: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Becker: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Allen: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Stern: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Jones: other
- Reyes: other
AB 1216 Education Concurrence in Senate Amendments By MURATSUCHI
2025-07-14 · pass · 78-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Macedo: yes
- Ward: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Flora: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Fong: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Haney: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Solache: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Addis: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Lee: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Wilson: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Papan: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Bains: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Davies: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Chen: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Hart: yes
- Patel: yes
- Krell: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Berman: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Ta: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Soria: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Bennett: other
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