republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-1255.md

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Bill	Pupil instruction: newcomer pupils: migrant education: migrant regions.	(1) Existing law requires the Instructional Quality Commission to recommend curriculum frameworks and instructional materials for adoption to the State Board of Education. Existing law requires, at the next regularly scheduled revision of the curriculum framework in English Language Arts and English Language Development, the commission to consider including content designed to provide teachers with resources to meet the unique academic and English language development needs of newcomer pupils at all grade levels. Existing law also requires the commission to ensure that the instructional materials for pupils in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 8, inclusive, that it recommends to the State Board of Education for adoption include resources to help teachers meet the needs of newcomer pupils.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 1255	California AB 1255 (20252026)	bill	Pupilinstruction migranteducation migrantregions newcomerpupils	enacted	Committee on Education	9	35	7	2025-02-21	2025-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/cc2f2a57-7acd-4e57-8bb3-faf3f475dcd4	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB1255	070d820b941771e93014d4f894b25e6fb01e0d4243912cd2a111ea4cfee9edf7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1255 (20252026) — Pupil instruction: newcomer pupils: migrant education: migrant regions.

(1) Existing law requires the Instructional Quality Commission to recommend curriculum frameworks and instructional materials for adoption to the State Board of Education. Existing law requires, at the next regularly scheduled revision of the curriculum framework in English Language Arts and English Language Development, the commission to consider including content designed to provide teachers with resources to meet the unique academic and English language development needs of newcomer pupils at all grade levels. Existing law also requires the commission to ensure that the instructional materials for pupils in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 8, inclusive, that it recommends to the State Board of Education for adoption include resources to help teachers meet the needs of newcomer pupils.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/21/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/05/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/23/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/16/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/20/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/01/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1255 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/08/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 1255 Education Third Reading Urgency By MURATSUCHI — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd AB1255 ED. (Muratsuchi) Urgency Clause — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1255 ED. (Muratsuchi) By Pérez Urgency Clause — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1255 Education Concurrence in Senate Amendments By MURATSUCHI — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Committee on Education — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-21 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2025-02-22 From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
• 2025-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
• 2025-03-10 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2025-04-21 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
• 2025-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2025-05-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 30). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-05-05 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-06 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2025-05-14 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-05-23 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-05-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-02 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1919.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-11 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2025-06-16 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-07 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2025-07-08 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-07-10 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2043.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-07-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-07-14 Ordered to the Senate.
• 2025-07-14 In Senate. Held at Desk.
• 2025-08-20 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, urgency clause adopted, passed, and to Assembly. passage, reading-3
• 2025-08-20 Ordered to third reading.
• 2025-08-20 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-08-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-02 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2396.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-02 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-04 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2912.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2025-10-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 185, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cc2f2a57-7acd-4e57-8bb3-faf3f475dcd4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).