CA AB 784
enactedSpecial education: specialized deaf and hard-of-hearing services.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
Quick answers
Did CA AB 784 pass?
Yes. CA AB 784 has been enacted into law as of 2025-07-14. Latest recorded action (2025-07-14): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 44, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA AB 784 about?
Existing law requires local educational agencies to identify, locate, and assess individuals with exceptional needs and to provide those individuals with a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment, with special education and related services, as reflected in an individualized education program. Existing law defines "special education" as specially designed instruction, at no cost to the parent, to meet the unique needs of individuals with exceptional needs. Existing law includes in that definition speech-language pathology services and certain other services if the service is considered special education rather than a designated instruction and service or related service under state standards. This bill would prohibit those provisions from being construed to prohibit an individualized education program from including specialized deaf and hard-of-hearing related services as the only services.
Who sponsors CA AB 784?
Hoover is the primary sponsor of CA AB 784.
Description
Existing law requires local educational agencies to identify, locate, and assess individuals with exceptional needs and to provide those individuals with a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment, with special education and related services, as reflected in an individualized education program. Existing law defines "special education" as specially designed instruction, at no cost to the parent, to meet the unique needs of individuals with exceptional needs. Existing law includes in that definition speech-language pathology services and certain other services if the service is considered special education rather than a designated instruction and service or related service under state standards. This bill would prohibit those provisions from being construed to prohibit an individualized education program from including specialized deaf and hard-of-hearing related services as the only services.
- Introduced
- 2025-03-28
- Latest action
- 2025-07-14 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 44, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Hooverauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
2025-02-18
Read first time. To print.
reading-1
2025-02-19
From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
2025-03-03
Referred to Com. on ED.
referral-committee
2025-03-21
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
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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2025-04-01
Re-referred to Com. on ED.
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2025-04-02
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-04-21
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended.
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2025-04-22
Re-referred to Com. on ED.
referral-committee
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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2025-05-14
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14).
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2025-05-15
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2025-05-23
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1662.)
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2025-05-23
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-06-04
Referred to Com. on ED.
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2025-06-18
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-06-30
From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2025-07-01
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2025-07-03
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1932.).
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2025-07-03
In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
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2025-07-11
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
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2025-07-14
Approved by the Governor.
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2025-07-14
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 44, Statutes of 2025.
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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. To Consent Calendar.
2025-05-14 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Fong: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Hart: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Ta: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Solache: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Arambula: yes
AB 784 Hoover Consent Calendar Second Day
2025-05-23 · pass · 71-0
Member-level votes (79)
- DeMaio: yes
- Davies: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Soria: yes
- Lee: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Solache: yes
- Ta: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Haney: yes
- Flora: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Addis: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Fong: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Berman: yes
- Ward: yes
- Hart: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Papan: yes
- Patel: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Bains: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Krell: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Caloza: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Bryan: other
- Sharp-Collins: other
- Nguyen: other
- Ellis: other
- Schultz: other
- Sanchez: other
- Chen: other
- Wicks: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-06-18 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Cabaldon: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Choi: yes
- Laird: yes
- Limón: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Pérez: yes
Consent Calendar 2nd
2025-07-03 · pass · 35-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Blakespear: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Becker: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Niello: yes
- Allen: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Choi: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Laird: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Strickland: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Jones: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Limón: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Stern: yes
- Grove: other
- Ochoa Bogh: other
- Reyes: other
- Dahle: other
- Seyarto: other
Related bills
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