CA AB 2056

passed one chamber

Teachers: exchange programs: local educational agencies.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Existing law, the World Language Teacher Exchange and Recruitment Law of 1963, requires the State Board of Education to adopt rules and regulations under which teachers employed by California school districts may exchange positions with teachers in schools in other countries for a period of one year or less. Existing law requires the arrangements for the exchanges to be made through the State Department of Education and in cooperation with the teacher exchange programs administered by agencies of the federal government. This bill would revise and recast those provisions by, among other things, (1) no longer requiring the state board to adopt regulations, (2) no longer requiring the department to administer the program or take actions necessary to carry out the program, (3) expressly providing for exchanges with Mexico and Spain, (4) expanding the authorized exchanges to include county offices of education and charter schools, (5) eliminating the one-year time limit on the exchanges, and (6) , if regulations are adopted, requiring those regulations to authorize specified visa sponsors designated by the United States Department of State to sponsor teachers from other countries, including Mexico and Spain, for placement in California school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to promote cultural exchange for specified purposes.

Introduced: 2026-06-09
Status date: —
Latest action: 2026-06-18 — In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

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Action timeline

2026-02-18
Read first time. To print.
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2026-02-19
From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
2026-03-02
Referred to Com. on ED.
referral-committee
2026-03-25
Coauthors revised.
2026-03-25
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-04-15
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (April 15).
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2026-04-16
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2026-04-23
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4795.)
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2026-04-23
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2026-05-06
Referred to Com. on ED.
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2026-06-04
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-06-09
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-06-15
From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2026-06-16
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2026-06-18
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0.).
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2026-06-18
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

Versions

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06/09/26 - Amended Senate — 2026-06-09Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2026-03-25 · pass · 9-0
Member-level votes (9)
- Garcia: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Patel: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Bonta: yes
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2026-04-15 · pass · 13-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Dixon: yes
- Fong: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Solache: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Krell: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Ta: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Pellerin: other
- Muratsuchi: other
AB 2056 Alvarez Consent Calendar Second Day
2026-04-23 · pass · 74-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Irwin: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Ta: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Davies: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Haney: yes
- Johnson: yes
- Hart: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Solache: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Krell: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Berman: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Lee: yes
- Chen: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Flora: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Fong: yes
- Ward: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Papan: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Bains: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Patel: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Hadwick: other
- Soria: other
- Addis: other
- Wicks: other
- Celeste Rodriguez: other
- Sharp-Collins: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2026-06-03 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Choi: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
Consent Calendar 2nd AB2056 Alvarez et al.
2026-06-18 · pass · 37-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Blakespear: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Niello: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Allen: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Jones: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Choi: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Limón: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Stern: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Laird: yes
- Becker: yes
- Grove: other
- Ashby: other
- Seyarto: other

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