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CA AB 606

enacted

Certificated employees: professional services credential: out-of-state applicants.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Quick answers

Did CA AB 606 pass?

Yes. CA AB 606 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-06. Latest recorded action (2025-10-06): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 375, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA AB 606 about?

Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law establishes minimum requirements for a professional services credential with a specialization in pupil personnel services and authorizes the holder of that credential to perform, at all grades levels, the pupil personnel service approved by the commission as designated on the credential, which may include, among other areas of service, school counseling and child welfare and attendance services, as provided. Existing law authorizes the commission to approve a program of professional preparation offered by a local educational agency for a services credential with a specialization in pupil personnel services in the area of child welfare and attendance services if the program meets specified requirements, as provided. This bill would, instead, authorize the commission to approve a program of professional preparation offered by a local educational agency for a services credential with a specialization in pupil personnel services in any area of service if the program meets those specified requirements. The bill would require a local educational agency's program of professional preparation for a services credential with a specialization in pupil personnel services in any area other than the area of child welfare and attendance services to be in partnership with a regionally accredited institution of higher education. The bill would require the commission to issue a preliminary professional services credential with a specialization in pupil personnel services to an out-of-state prepared applicant who satisfies alternative specified requirements and would provide that the credential is valid for a period of 2 years and is eligible for renewal for a period of no more than 2 years, as specified.

Who sponsors CA AB 606?

Quirk-Silva is the primary sponsor of CA AB 606.

Description

Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law establishes minimum requirements for a professional services credential with a specialization in pupil personnel services and authorizes the holder of that credential to perform, at all grades levels, the pupil personnel service approved by the commission as designated on the credential, which may include, among other areas of service, school counseling and child welfare and attendance services, as provided. Existing law authorizes the commission to approve a program of professional preparation offered by a local educational agency for a services credential with a specialization in pupil personnel services in the area of child welfare and attendance services if the program meets specified requirements, as provided. This bill would, instead, authorize the commission to approve a program of professional preparation offered by a local educational agency for a services credential with a specialization in pupil personnel services in any area of service if the program meets those specified requirements. The bill would require a local educational agency's program of professional preparation for a services credential with a specialization in pupil personnel services in any area other than the area of child welfare and attendance services to be in partnership with a regionally accredited institution of higher education. The bill would require the commission to issue a preliminary professional services credential with a specialization in pupil personnel services to an out-of-state prepared applicant who satisfies alternative specified requirements and would provide that the credential is valid for a period of 2 years and is eligible for renewal for a period of no more than 2 years, as specified.

Introduced
2025-03-28
Latest action
2025-10-06 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 375, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Quirk-Silvaauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-13

    Read first time. To print.

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  2. 2025-02-14

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.

  3. 2025-02-24

    Referred to Com. on ED.

    referral-committee

  4. 2025-03-13

    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

  5. 2025-03-28

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

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  6. 2025-04-01

    Re-referred to Com. on ED.

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  7. 2025-04-10

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

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  8. 2025-04-30

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

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  9. 2025-05-01

    Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

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  10. 2025-05-08

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1485.)

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  11. 2025-05-08

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

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  12. 2025-05-21

    Referred to Com. on ED.

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  13. 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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  14. 2025-06-23

    In committee: Referred to suspense file.

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  15. 2025-08-29

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

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  16. 2025-08-29

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  17. 2025-09-04

    Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

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  18. 2025-09-08

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  19. 2025-09-09

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2669.).

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  20. 2025-09-09

    In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

  21. 2025-09-10

    Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3223.).

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  22. 2025-09-22

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

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  23. 2025-10-06

    Approved by the Governor.

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  24. 2025-10-06

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 375, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

  • 02/13/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-13Compare
  • 03/28/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-03-28Compare
  • 09/04/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-09-04Compare
  • 09/12/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-12Compare
  • 10/06/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-06Compare
  • AB606Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass 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 606 Quirk-Silva 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] 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

  • 3rd Reading AB606 Quirk-Silva By Cortese

    2025-09-09 · pass · 40-0

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

  • AB 606 Quirk-Silva Concurrence in Senate Amendments

    2025-09-11 · 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
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Irwin: 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
    • Tangipa: other

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