republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-784.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Special education: specialized deaf and hard-of-hearing services."
description: "Existing law requires local educational agencies to identify, locate, and assess individuals with exceptional needs and to provide those individuals with a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment, with special education and related services, as reflected in an individualized education program. Existing law defines \"special education\" as specially designed instruction, at no cost to the parent, to meet the unique needs of individuals with exceptional needs. Existing law includes in that definition speech-language pathology services and certain other services if the service is considered special education rather than a designated instruction and service or related service under state standards."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 784"
citation: "California AB 784 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Specialeducation", "specializeddeafandhard-of-hearingservices"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hoover"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-18"
last_action: "2025-07-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d081b250-8ef3-430f-99f8-e8b0448eb781"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB784"
source_hash: "19ae6961266a20eea624fddc37787bb624ce8bc385dd1bdcaca865284b2b760c"
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 AB 784 (20252026) — Special education: specialized deaf and hard-of-hearing services.

Existing law requires local educational agencies to identify, locate, and assess individuals with exceptional needs and to provide those individuals with a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment, with special education and related services, as reflected in an individualized education program. Existing law defines "special education" as specially designed instruction, at no cost to the parent, to meet the unique needs of individuals with exceptional needs. Existing law includes in that definition speech-language pathology services and certain other services if the service is considered special education rather than a designated instruction and service or related service under state standards.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB784&version=20250AB78499INT)
2. **03/28/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB784&version=20250AB78498AMD)
3. **04/21/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB784&version=20250AB78497AMD)
4. **07/14/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB784&version=20250AB78495CHP)
5. **AB784** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB784)
6. **07/08/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB784&version=20250AB78496ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 784 Hoover Consent Calendar Second Day — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hoover — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2025-03-03** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-21** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2025-03-28** 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`
- **2025-04-01** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-02** In committee: Hearing postponed by 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: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-14** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-15** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1662.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-06-04** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-30** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2025-07-01** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-07-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1932.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-07-03** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2025-07-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
- **2025-07-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-07-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 44, 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/d081b250-8ef3-430f-99f8-e8b0448eb781`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).