---
type: "Bill"
title: "California Education Interagency Council: California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program."
description: "Existing law establishes the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program, administered as a competitive grant program by the State Department of Education, with the purpose of encouraging, maintaining, and strengthening the delivery of high-quality career technical education programs. Existing law requires an applicant to demonstrate that it, or its career technical education program, as applicable, meets certain minimum eligibility standards."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "SB 638"
citation: "California SB 638 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["CaliforniaCareerTechnicalEducationIncentiveGrantProgram", "CaliforniaEducationInteragencyCouncil"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Padilla"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 34
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2025-02-20"
last_action: "2025-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2243fc08-b9f2-4f09-8573-f4d37e3ad0a2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB638"
source_hash: "b94affa112eee22574f8e569e9a8240fb7e4a50983e431c2ff2a3de5d9fc0399"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California SB 638 (20252026) — California Education Interagency Council: California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program.

Existing law establishes the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program, administered as a competitive grant program by the State Department of Education, with the purpose of encouraging, maintaining, and strengthening the delivery of high-quality career technical education programs. Existing law requires an applicant to demonstrate that it, or its career technical education program, as applicable, meets certain minimum eligibility standards.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/20/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB638&version=20250SB63899INT)
2. **03/26/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB638&version=20250SB63898AMD)
3. **04/22/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB638&version=20250SB63897AMD)
4. **05/23/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB638&version=20250SB63896AMD)
5. **07/07/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB638&version=20250SB63895AMD)
6. **09/05/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB638&version=20250SB63894AMD)
7. **10/07/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB638&version=20250SB63892CHP)
8. **SB638** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB638)
9. **09/18/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB638&version=20250SB63893ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **11–4** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Higher Education] — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 638 Padilla Senate Third Reading By Fong — **72–6** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading SB638 Padilla et al. — **30–3** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–3** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB638 Padilla et al. Concurrence — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Padilla — primary (person)
- Archuleta — principal coauthor (person)
- Arreguín — principal coauthor (person)
- Becker — principal coauthor (person)
- Cortese — principal coauthor (person)
- Fong — author (person)
- Grayson — principal coauthor (person)
- Hurtado — principal coauthor (person)
- McGuire — principal coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Pérez — principal coauthor (person)
- Rubio — principal coauthor (person)
- Smallwood-Cuevas — principal coauthor (person)
- Weber Pierson — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-02-20** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-02-21** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
- **2025-03-05** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** Set for hearing April 30.
- **2025-04-22** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-30** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 961.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-02** Set for hearing May 12.
- **2025-05-12** May 12 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2025-05-16** Set for hearing May 23.
- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 1207.) (May 23). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-06-04** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 30. Noes 3. Page 1500.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-05** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2025-06-16** Referred to Coms. on ED., HIGHER ED. , and L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2025-07-03** Assembly Rule 56 suspended.
- **2025-07-03** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-07-07** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-09** July 8 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2025-07-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (July 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-08-20** August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2025-08-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (August 29). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-05** Assembly Rule 69(b)(1) suspended.
- **2025-09-05** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-05** Ordered to third reading.
- **2025-09-12** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 6. Page 3425.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-13** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2025-09-13** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3035.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2025-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 457, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2243fc08-b9f2-4f09-8573-f4d37e3ad0a2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).