CA AB 1438
enactedSchool finance: administrative employee-to-teacher ratio: Paradise Unified School District.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
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Quick answers
Did CA AB 1438 pass?
Yes. CA AB 1438 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2025-10-01): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 193, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA AB 1438 about?
Existing law sets forth the maximum ratios of administrative employees to each 100 teachers in the various types of school districts. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to determine, for each current fiscal year, for each school district in the state, the total number of administrative employees and the total number of teachers, except as provided, the total maximum number of administrative employees that should be employed by the school district based upon the application of the appropriate ratio prescribed by law, and the number of administrative employees in excess of the number allowable without penalty, as provided. Existing law requires the Superintendent to determine a reduction in state support resulting from excess administrative employees, as specified, and requires the school district's 2nd principal apportionment for the current fiscal year to be reduced by that amount. Existing law exempts the Paradise Unified School District from that reduction in state support for the 2021–22 fiscal year to the 2023–24 fiscal year, inclusive. This bill would further exempt the Paradise Unified School District from that reduction in state support for the 2024–25 fiscal year to the 2026–27 fiscal year, inclusive. The bill would require the Paradise Unified School District to, by September 1, 2026, submit a report related to the administrative employee-to-teacher ratio to the Superintendent, the Department of Finance, and the appropriate budget and policy committees of both houses of the Legislature, as specified. By imposing additional reporting requirements on the Paradise Unified School District, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Paradise Unified School District. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Who sponsors CA AB 1438?
Gallagher is the primary sponsor of CA AB 1438.
Description
Existing law sets forth the maximum ratios of administrative employees to each 100 teachers in the various types of school districts. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to determine, for each current fiscal year, for each school district in the state, the total number of administrative employees and the total number of teachers, except as provided, the total maximum number of administrative employees that should be employed by the school district based upon the application of the appropriate ratio prescribed by law, and the number of administrative employees in excess of the number allowable without penalty, as provided. Existing law requires the Superintendent to determine a reduction in state support resulting from excess administrative employees, as specified, and requires the school district's 2nd principal apportionment for the current fiscal year to be reduced by that amount. Existing law exempts the Paradise Unified School District from that reduction in state support for the 2021–22 fiscal year to the 2023–24 fiscal year, inclusive. This bill would further exempt the Paradise Unified School District from that reduction in state support for the 2024–25 fiscal year to the 2026–27 fiscal year, inclusive. The bill would require the Paradise Unified School District to, by September 1, 2026, submit a report related to the administrative employee-to-teacher ratio to the Superintendent, the Department of Finance, and the appropriate budget and policy committees of both houses of the Legislature, as specified. By imposing additional reporting requirements on the Paradise Unified School District, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the Paradise Unified School District. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
- Introduced
- 2025-02-21
- Latest action
- 2025-10-01 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 193, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Gallagherauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
Newest first
2025-10-01
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 193, Statutes of 2025.
became-law
2025-10-01
Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature
2025-09-15
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
executive-receipt
2025-09-04
In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
committee-passage
2025-09-04
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2524.).
amendment-passage,passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-09-02
Ordered to special consent calendar.
2025-08-29
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-08-29
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2025-06-23
In committee: Referred to suspense file.
referral-committee
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.
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2025-05-14
Referred to Com. on ED.
referral-committee
2025-05-06
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-05-05
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 1427.).
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2025-04-24
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-04-23
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 23).
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2025-04-01
Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
referral-committee
2025-03-28
Read second time and amended.
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2025-03-27
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 26).
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2025-03-13
Referred to Com. on ED.
referral-committee
2025-02-24
Read first time.
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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 as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
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.
2025-04-23 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Pacheco: yes
- Ta: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Hart: yes
- Solache: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Fong: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Dixon: yes
AB 1438 Gallagher Third Reading Urgency
2025-05-05 · pass · 72-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Rivas: yes
- Haney: yes
- Papan: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Patel: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Fong: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Krell: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Soria: yes
- Ta: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Addis: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Solache: yes
- Rogers: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Chen: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Hart: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Davies: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Ward: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Berman: yes
- Flora: yes
- Valencia: other
- Elhawary: other
- Ramos: other
- Bains: other
- Kalra: other
- Lee: other
- Ellis: 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
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 AB1438 Gallagher By Ochoa Bogh Urgency Clause
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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