Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, among other duties, to establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law requires the commission to issue a single subject teaching credential only in specified subjects and authorizes the commission to issue an authorization to teach a subject other than the one authorized by a single subject teaching credential if the holder of the credential meets certain requirements. Existing regulations of the commission authorize the holder of a single subject teaching credential who meets those requirements to add a supplementary authorization to teach specified subjects, including computer science.
California AB 1251 (20232024) — Teacher credentialing: computer science instruction: workgroup.
Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, among other duties, to establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law requires the commission to issue a single subject teaching credential only in specified subjects and authorizes the commission to issue an authorization to teach a subject other than the one authorized by a single subject teaching credential if the holder of the credential meets certain requirements. Existing regulations of the commission authorize the holder of a single subject teaching credential who meets those requirements to add a supplementary authorization to teach specified subjects, including computer science.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
AB 1251 Luz Rivas Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Special Consent AB1251 Luz Rivas et al. By Becker — 39–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Luz Rivas — primary (person)
Becker — principal coauthor (person)
Berman — principal coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2023-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2023-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
2023-03-16 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
2023-03-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2023-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
2023-04-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 12). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
2023-04-18 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2023-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
2023-05-03 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2023-05-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2023-05-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1766.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
2023-05-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2023-06-07 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
2023-06-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2023-06-26 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2023-09-08 Ordered to special consent calendar.
2023-09-12 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2688.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
2023-09-12 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
2023-09-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2023-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2023-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 834, Statutes of 2023. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/90b5001e-7cca-4181-a8f3-c2a95b8b2f4a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).