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CA AB 1306

enacted

Teacher preparation programs: school districts and county offices of education: English learners.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to issue a clear multiple subject, single subject, or education specialist teaching credential to an applicant who satisfies, among other requirements, the state requirements for teaching English learners. Existing law requires the commission to issue authorizations for a teacher to provide specific services to limited-English-proficient pupils, if certain minimum requirements are met, including, among other requirements, completion of at least 6 semester units, or 9 quarter units, of coursework in a 2nd language at a regionally accredited institution of higher education. Existing law authorizes the commission to approve any regionally accredited institution of higher education to recommend to the commission the issuance of credentials to a person who has successfully completed a teacher education program with the institution, if the program meets the standards approved by the commission. This bill would, notwithstanding any other law, authorize the commission to approve a teacher education program offered by a school district or county office of education administered for purposes of earning a cross-cultural language and academic development certificate or a bilingual authorization certificate, including a California Teacher of English Learners program. The bill would require the commission to apply the standards for approval of a program of professional preparation offered by a regionally accredited institution of higher education to a program of professional preparation offered by a school district or county office of education under these provisions.

Introduced
2025-02-21
Status date
Latest action
2025-10-13 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 727, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated

Subjects

Sponsors

  • Muratsuchiauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-21

    Introduced. To print.

    introduction

  2. 2025-02-22

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.

  3. 2025-02-24

    Read first time.

    reading-1

  4. 2025-03-24

    Referred to Com. on ED.

    referral-committee

  5. 2025-03-24

    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

  6. 2025-03-25

    Re-referred to Com. on ED.

    referral-committee

  7. 2025-04-10

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 9).

    amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,referral-committee

  8. 2025-04-21

    Read second time and amended.

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  9. 2025-04-22

    Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

    referral-committee

  10. 2025-04-30

    From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 30).

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  11. 2025-05-01

    Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

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  12. 2025-05-08

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1487.)

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  13. 2025-05-08

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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  14. 2025-05-21

    Referred to Com. on ED.

    referral-committee

  15. 2025-06-11

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  16. 2025-06-23

    In committee: Referred to suspense file.

    referral-committee

  17. 2025-08-29

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29).

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  18. 2025-08-29

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  19. 2025-09-02

    Ordered to special consent calendar.

  20. 2025-09-04

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2524.).

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  21. 2025-09-04

    In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.

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  22. 2025-09-15

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.

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  23. 2025-10-13

    Approved by the Governor.

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  24. 2025-10-13

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 727, Statutes of 2025.

    became-law

Versions

  • 02/21/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-21Compare
  • 03/24/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-03-24Compare
  • 04/21/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-04-21Compare
  • 09/08/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-08Compare
  • 10/13/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-13Compare
  • AB1306Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar

    2025-04-09 · pass · 9-0

    Member-level votes (9)
    • Castillo: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
  • Do pass. To Consent Calendar.

    2025-04-30 · pass · 14-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Dixon: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Pellerin: other
  • AB 1306 Muratsuchi Consent Calendar Second Day

    2025-05-08 · pass · 69-0

    Member-level votes (79)
    • Gabriel: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: other
    • Carrillo: other
    • Arambula: other
    • Irwin: other
    • Gallagher: other
    • Celeste Rodriguez: other
    • Wallis: other
    • Flora: other
    • Boerner: other
    • Sanchez: other
  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    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
  • Placed on suspense file

    2025-06-23 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Caballero: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Wahab: yes
  • Do pass

    2025-08-29 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Richardson: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
  • Special Consent

    2025-09-04 · pass · 39-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Stern: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Alvarado-Gil: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Strickland: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Reyes: other

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