AB 49 (CA Safe Haven Schools Act): Protects undocumented students and their families by prohibiting immigration enforcement officers from entering a school site for any purpose without providing valid identification, a valid judicial warrant, a court order, or claims of exigent circumstances necessitating immediate action.
AB 84 (Nonclassroom Based Charter School & Auditing Reforms): Responds to the recommendations made by: the Legislative Analysts' Office, Fiscal Crisis & Management Assistance Team (FCMAT), the State Controller's taskforce, the California Charter Authorizing Professionals and the San Diego County District Attorney. This bill proposes comprehensive reforms aligned to the recent reports and lifts the statewide moratorium on Nonclassroom Based charter schools that is set to expire in January 2026.
AB 401 (Career Technical Education Sustainable Funding Act): Provides more opportunities for students to gain college and career readiness skills through improved access to high quality career technical education (CTE) courses and pathways as AB 401 will provide a stable source of funding for local educational agencies (LEAs) by phasing in four-year grants for the Career Technical Education Incentive Grant (CTEIG) program.
AB 453 (School Safety Plans): Requires the California Department of Education (CDE) to convene a stakeholder workgroup to review the current statutory requirements for comprehensive school safety plans and to make recommendations on streamlining the plans and the process for updating them to maximize school safety.
AB 477 (Fair Pay Educator Workforce Act): Creates a higher Local Control Funding Formula funding goal over a ten-year period to allow increases of school site staff salaries at the bargaining table. This will help close the wage gap faced by school employees compared to similarly educated professionals in other fields. It will also help California recruit and retain qualified school site staff at school districts, charter schools and county offices of education.
AB 605 (Lower Emissions Equipment at Seaports and Intermodal Yards Program): Establishes a pilot program to support the early adoption of lower-emissions cargo handling equipment at California seaports and intermodal yards. The bill specifies that the California Air Resources Board (CARB) may not adopt future regulations that disallow the use of qualifying equipment purchased before December 31, 2027, for its full useful life, as certified by the manufacturer. The program is intended to encourage near-term emissions reductions ahead of full zero-emissions deployment while maintaining regulatory certainty for participating equipment owners.
AB 640 (Local educational agencies: governance training): Requires members of governing boards of school districts and county offices of education, and members of governing bodies of charter schools, to receive training in K-12 public education governance laws. Training topics include school finance, and public school accountability.
AB 642 (LA Wildfire School Recovery Act): Expands existing catastrophic leave programs for school employees to allow leave donations for those impacted by a state of emergency declared by the Governor. Additionally, it requires school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to report student enrollment and disenrollment data for those displaced by a state of emergency to the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS). This bill ensures that both employees and students affected by emergencies receive appropriate support and tracking.
AB 832 (CalSHAPE Program): Extends statutory deadlines for the California Schools Healthy Air, Plumbing, and Efficiency (CalSHAPE) Program, allowing schools to apply for unspent funds earmarked for HVAC upgrades. Without legislative action, an estimated $191 million in unspent funds will be returned to investor-owned utilities. This bill ensures schools can access these funds to improve indoor air quality and learning environments for students and staff.
AB 875 (E-bikes): Provides an explicit storage/impound authority for illegal, "out-of-class", electric vehicles, and for Class 3 electric bicycles if the rider is under 16 years old.
AB 986 (Landslides): Expands the definition of disasters constituting a state of emergency or a local emergency under the California Emergency Services Act to include landslides and conditions exacerbated by climate change. By doing so, the bill enables local governments to declare a state of emergency and access disaster assistance funds.
AB 1021 (Educational Workforce Housing): Addresses the staffing crisis in California's education workforce by making it easier for local educational agencies (LEAs) to facilitate housing for their workforce on their property.
AB 1086 (Marine Carbon Capture): Assists California in meeting its ambitious climate goals by advancing Marine Carbon Dioxide Removal (mCDR) research and projects.
AB 1123 (Commission on Teacher Credentialing): Adds three voting members representing Early Childhood Education (ECE) to the California Commission on Teacher Credentialing (CTC), to ensure that the Commission membership has expertise in ECE, and that ECE educators and the faculty who prepare them have a voice in the CTC's decisions regarding their preparation and licensing.
AB 1128 (California Student Teacher Pay Act): Establishes the California Student Teacher Support Grant Program for local education agencies to compensate teacher candidates during student teaching hours as part of their teacher preparation programs.
AB 1306 (Teacher preparation programs: English learners): Increases the number of credentialing programs that can prepare teachers to teach English Learners or provide bilingual instruction by authorizing School District or County Office of Education-based programs to be accredited in the same manner as College or University-based programs.
AB 1381 (Educational Workforce Housing Predevelopment): Establishes a revolving loan account in the Office of the California State Treasurer to provide zero-interest loans to assist local educational agencies (LEAs), which include school districts and county offices of education, to prepare feasibility studies for educational workforce housing projects. Loan amounts would range from $150,000—$200,000 depending on the size of the LEA.
AB 1428 (California Affordable Child Care Act): Establishes the California Affordable Child Care Fund in the State Treasury with revenues generated through a 0.5% income tax on personal income of an individual through LLCs, LLPs, S-Corps, and partnerships and corporations earning over $10 million annually. This bill ensures long-term investments in California's child care system, and makes child care more affordable, accessible, and sustainable for working families.
HR 12 (Japanese Day of Remembrance): Recognizes February 19, 2025 as Day of Remembrance and increases awareness of the events surrounding the incarceration of Americans of Japanese ancestry during WWII.
HR 13 (Read Across America Day): Recognizes March 2, 2025 as Read Across America Day
ACR 22 (School Counseling Week): Recognizes February 3, 2025, to February 7, 2025, as National School Counseling Week.