CA SB 549

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Heritage schools: enrollment and notice.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Description

Under existing law, a "heritage school" is a school that, among other things, offers world language education or tutoring and cultural education relating to a country other than the United States to children who are at least 4 years and 9 months of age and no older than 18 years of age and who attend a public or private full-time day school. Existing law exempts a heritage school from licensure by the State Department of Social Services as a child day care center, as specified. This bill would expand the definition of "heritage school" to also include a school that provides services to children younger than 4 years and 9 months of age who are enrolled in kindergarten, including transitional kindergarten, or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Existing law requires a heritage school, upon a pupil's enrollment in a heritage school, to provide a notice to the pupil's parent or guardian stating that the heritage school is exempt from childcare licensure and that attendance at a heritage school does not satisfy California's compulsory education. This bill would require a heritage school, upon a pupil's enrollment in a heritage school, to also provide notice that the State Department of Education has no regulatory authority over heritage schools and does not monitor heritage school operations or instruction.

Introduced: 2025-02-20
Status date: —
Latest action: 2026-07-02 — From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 1).
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

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Action timeline

2025-02-20
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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2025-02-21
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
2025-03-05
Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
referral-committee
2025-03-24
Set for hearing May 7.
2025-05-07
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1038.) (May 7).
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2025-05-08
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-05-29
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 1333.) Ordered to the Assembly.
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2025-05-29
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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2025-06-05
Referred to Com. on L. GOV.
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2025-06-23
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
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2025-06-25
July 2 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
2025-07-17
July 16 set for second hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) Reconsideration granted.
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2025-09-09
Assembly Rule 96 suspended.
2025-09-09
Withdrawn from committee.
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2025-09-09
Ordered to third reading.
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2025-09-09
Joint Rule 61(a)(13) suspended. (Ayes 60. Noes 20. Page 3128.)
2025-09-10
Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. pursuant to Assembly Rule 97.
referral-committee
2026-06-11
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.
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2026-06-15
Re-referred to Com. on ED. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
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2026-07-02
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 1).
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Versions

02/20/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-20Compare
06/23/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-06-23Compare
06/11/26 - Amended Assembly — 2026-06-11Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass
2025-05-07 · pass · 5-2
Member-level votes (7)
- Durazo: yes
- Laird: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Seyarto: no
- Choi: no
3rd Reading
2025-05-29 · pass · 28-10
Member-level votes (40)
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Stern: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Pérez: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Laird: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Allen: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Becker: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Strickland: no
- Choi: no
- Grove: no
- Dahle: no
- Valladares: no
- Seyarto: no
- Niello: no
- Jones: no
- Alvarado-Gil: no
- Ochoa Bogh: no
- Limón: other
- Reyes: other
Do pass.
2025-07-16 · fail · 4-1
Member-level votes (10)
- Stefani: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Ta: no
- Hoover: other
- Ward: other
- Ramos: other
- Wilson: other
- Ransom: other
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2026-07-01 · pass · 8-0
Member-level votes (9)
- Patel: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Garcia: other

Related bills

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