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.
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.
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; origin ocd-bill/2243fc08-b9f2-4f09-8573-f4d37e3ad0a2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).