Existing law, commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, appropriates $300,000,000 each fiscal year from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for allocation for the Local Control Funding Formula Equity Multiplier apportionment, as provided. Existing law requires the funding to be allocated to eligible local educational agencies that generate a specified local control funding formula entitlement based on, among other things, the percentage of unduplicated pupils served.
California AB 3131 (20232024) — Strong Workforce Program: applicants receiving equity multiplier funding.
Existing law, commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, appropriates $300,000,000 each fiscal year from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for allocation for the Local Control Funding Formula Equity Multiplier apportionment, as provided. Existing law requires the funding to be allocated to eligible local educational agencies that generate a specified local control funding formula entitlement based on, among other things, the percentage of unduplicated pupils served.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
AB 3131 McCarty Assembly Third Reading — 72–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
AB 3131 McCarty Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Higher Education] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
3rd Reading AB3131 McCarty et al. By Bradford — 40–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
McCarty — primary (person)
Bonta — coauthor (person)
Bradford — coauthor (person)
Bryan — coauthor (person)
Gipson — coauthor (person)
Holden — coauthor (person)
Jackson — coauthor (person)
Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
McKinnor — coauthor (person)
Smallwood-Cuevas — coauthor (person)
Weber — coauthor (person)
Wilson — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2024-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2024-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
2024-03-11 Referred to Coms. on ED. and HIGHER ED. referral-committee
2024-03-26 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2024-04-01 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
2024-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
2024-04-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 10). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
2024-04-15 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2024-04-16 Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
2024-04-24 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
2024-04-25 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2024-04-29 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
2024-05-15 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
2024-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2024-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 5636.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2024-06-05 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
2024-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2024-07-01 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
2024-08-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 15). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
2024-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2024-08-23 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2024-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
2024-08-28 Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
2024-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2024-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2024-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 434, Statutes of 2024. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2b7cb16b-fd92-4954-aba0-21565d88f18b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).