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CA AB 542

enacted

Continuation schools and classes: youth workforce development programs.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Quick answers

Did CA AB 542 pass?

Yes. CA AB 542 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-13. Latest recorded action (2025-10-13): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 696, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA AB 542 about?

Existing law requires the governing board of each school district to fix the length of the schoolday for grades and classes of the schools maintained by the school district, subject to certain conditions and requirements. Under existing law, in continuation high schools and continuation education classes, a day of attendance is 180 minutes of attendance and a pupil is prohibited from being credited with more than 15 hours of attendance per school week, proportionately reduced for those school weeks having weekday holidays on which classes are not held. This bill would authorize the governing board of a school district that maintains a continuation high school or continuation education classes to offer youth workforce development programs, as defined, to pupils on one or 2 weekdays per school week if it ensures that those pupils are otherwise enrolled in at least 15 hours of class attendance per school week. The bill would require a school district that implements a youth workforce development program for these purposes to establish procedures to track pupil attendance and pupil participation while engaging in a youth workforce development program.

Who sponsors CA AB 542?

Celeste Rodriguez is the primary sponsor of CA AB 542, joined by 1 cosponsor.

Description

Existing law requires the governing board of each school district to fix the length of the schoolday for grades and classes of the schools maintained by the school district, subject to certain conditions and requirements. Under existing law, in continuation high schools and continuation education classes, a day of attendance is 180 minutes of attendance and a pupil is prohibited from being credited with more than 15 hours of attendance per school week, proportionately reduced for those school weeks having weekday holidays on which classes are not held. This bill would authorize the governing board of a school district that maintains a continuation high school or continuation education classes to offer youth workforce development programs, as defined, to pupils on one or 2 weekdays per school week if it ensures that those pupils are otherwise enrolled in at least 15 hours of class attendance per school week. The bill would require a school district that implements a youth workforce development program for these purposes to establish procedures to track pupil attendance and pupil participation while engaging in a youth workforce development program.

Introduced
2025-02-26
Latest action
2025-10-13 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 696, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Celeste Rodriguezauthor
  • Alaniscoauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-11

    Read first time. To print.

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  2. 2025-02-12

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.

  3. 2025-02-24

    Referred to Com. on ED.

    referral-committee

  4. 2025-02-26

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended.

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  5. 2025-02-27

    Re-referred to Com. on ED.

    referral-committee

  6. 2025-03-20

    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

  7. 2025-04-03

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended.

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  8. 2025-04-07

    Re-referred to Com. on ED.

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  9. 2025-05-01

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  10. 2025-05-14

    In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.

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  11. 2025-05-23

    Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

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  12. 2025-05-23

    Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)

  13. 2025-05-23

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23).

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  14. 2025-05-27

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  15. 2025-06-04

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2065.)

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  16. 2025-06-05

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

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  17. 2025-06-18

    Referred to Coms. on ED. and APPR.

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  18. 2025-06-23

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED.

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  19. 2025-07-02

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  20. 2025-07-14

    In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

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  21. 2025-08-29

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  22. 2025-08-29

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

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  23. 2025-09-02

    Ordered to special consent calendar.

  24. 2025-09-04

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2521.).

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  25. 2025-09-04

    In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

  26. 2025-09-08

    Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3033.).

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  27. 2025-09-15

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

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  28. 2025-10-13

    Approved by the Governor.

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  29. 2025-10-13

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 696, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

  • 02/11/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-11Compare
  • 02/26/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-02-26Compare
  • 04/03/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-04-03Compare
  • 05/23/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-05-23Compare
  • 06/23/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-06-23Compare
  • 09/10/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-10Compare
  • 10/13/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-13Compare
  • AB542Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

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

    2025-04-30 · pass · 9-0

    Member-level votes (9)
    • Castillo: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes

  • Do pass as amended.

    2025-05-23 · pass · 11-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Calderon: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Ta: other
    • Sanchez: other
    • Dixon: other
    • Tangipa: other

  • AB 542 Celeste Rodriguez Assembly Third Reading

    2025-06-04 · pass · 79-0

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

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

    2025-07-02 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes

  • Placed on suspense file

    2025-07-14 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Seyarto: 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 AB542 Celeste Rodriguez

    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

  • AB 542 Celeste Rodriguez Concurrence in Senate Amendments By LOWENTHAL

    2025-09-08 · pass · 79-0

    Member-level votes (80)
    • Addis: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Johnson: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Gallagher: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Nguyen: other

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