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CA SB 241

enacted

Community colleges: personnel: qualifications.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Quick answers

Did CA SB 241 pass?

Yes. CA SB 241 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-01. Latest recorded action (2025-10-01): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 214, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA SB 241 about?

Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law requires the board of governors to adopt regulations to establish and maintain the minimum qualifications for service as a faculty member teaching credit instruction, a faculty member teaching noncredit instruction, a librarian, a counselor, an educational administrator, an extended opportunity programs and services worker, a disabled students programs and services worker, an apprenticeship instructor, and a supervisor of health. Existing law provides, notwithstanding that provision, that a person authorized to serve as a community college instructor, librarian, counselor, student personnel worker, supervisor, administrator, or chief administrative officer under a credential shall retain the right to serve under the terms of that credential, and, for that purpose, shall be deemed to possess the minimum qualifications specified for every discipline or service covered by the credential until the expiration of that credential. Existing law requires the board of governors to adopt regulations authorizing local governing boards to employ faculty members and educational administrators who do not meet the specified minimum qualifications, subject to alternative minimum qualifications. This bill would explicitly require a community college instructor, librarian, counselor, student personnel worker, supervisor, administrator, chief administrative officer, extended opportunity programs and services worker, disabled students programs and services worker, apprenticeship instructor, or supervisor of health to be a person who meets the above-described minimum qualifications to serve in that position or the alternative qualifications to serve in that position.

Who sponsors CA SB 241?

Cervantes is the primary sponsor of CA SB 241.

Description

Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, under the administration of the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in this state. Existing law requires the board of governors to adopt regulations to establish and maintain the minimum qualifications for service as a faculty member teaching credit instruction, a faculty member teaching noncredit instruction, a librarian, a counselor, an educational administrator, an extended opportunity programs and services worker, a disabled students programs and services worker, an apprenticeship instructor, and a supervisor of health. Existing law provides, notwithstanding that provision, that a person authorized to serve as a community college instructor, librarian, counselor, student personnel worker, supervisor, administrator, or chief administrative officer under a credential shall retain the right to serve under the terms of that credential, and, for that purpose, shall be deemed to possess the minimum qualifications specified for every discipline or service covered by the credential until the expiration of that credential. Existing law requires the board of governors to adopt regulations authorizing local governing boards to employ faculty members and educational administrators who do not meet the specified minimum qualifications, subject to alternative minimum qualifications. This bill would explicitly require a community college instructor, librarian, counselor, student personnel worker, supervisor, administrator, chief administrative officer, extended opportunity programs and services worker, disabled students programs and services worker, apprenticeship instructor, or supervisor of health to be a person who meets the above-described minimum qualifications to serve in that position or the alternative qualifications to serve in that position.

Introduced
2025-01-30
Latest action
2025-10-01 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 214, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Cervantesauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-01-30

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

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  2. 2025-02-03

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 2.

  3. 2025-02-14

    Referred to Com. on ED.

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  4. 2025-03-11

    Set for hearing March 26.

  5. 2025-03-26

    From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 565.) (March 26).

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  6. 2025-03-27

    Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

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  7. 2025-04-01

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 604.) Ordered to the Assembly.

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  8. 2025-04-01

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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  9. 2025-05-12

    Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.

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  10. 2025-06-25

    From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 24).

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  11. 2025-06-26

    Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

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  12. 2025-06-27

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  13. 2025-09-08

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 1. Page 2976.) Ordered to the Senate.

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  14. 2025-09-08

    In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  15. 2025-09-10

    Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2826.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

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  16. 2025-09-17

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

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  17. 2025-10-01

    Approved by the Governor.

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  18. 2025-10-01

    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 214, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

  • 01/30/25 - Introduced — 2025-01-30Compare
  • 06/26/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-06-26Compare
  • 09/12/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-12Compare
  • 10/01/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-01Compare
  • SB241Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar

    2025-03-26 · pass · 7-0

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

  • Consent Calendar 2nd

    2025-04-01 · pass · 39-0

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

  • Do pass as amended.

    2025-06-24 · pass · 9-0

    Member-level votes (10)
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • DeMaio: other

  • SB 241 Cervantes Senate Third Reading By Fong

    2025-09-08 · pass · 78-1

    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
    • 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
    • DeMaio: no
    • Nguyen: other

  • Unfinished Business SB241 Cervantes Concurrence

    2025-09-10 · pass · 40-0

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

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http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB241

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