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type: "Bill"
title: "Education finance: Classified School Employee Summer Assistance Program."
description: "Existing law establishes the Classified School Employee Summer Assistance Program. Existing law authorizes local educational agencies to elect to participate in the program and authorizes a classified employee of a participating local educational agency who meets specified requirements to withhold an amount from the employee's monthly paycheck during the school year to be paid out during the summer recess period, as provided. Existing law requires the State Department of Education to apportion funds to participating local educational agencies within 30 days of receiving a request for payment by the participating local educational agency, as provided. Existing law provides that operation of the program is contingent upon an appropriation for the program in the annual Budget Act or another statute. Existing law defines \"local educational agency\" for these purposes as a school district or county office of education."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 378"
citation: "California AB 378 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["ClassifiedSchoolEmployeeSummerAssistanceProgram", "Educationfinance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Valencia"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 27
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2025-02-03"
last_action: "2025-10-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6eb5fdf8-244b-4b9f-90c0-8d6af6408dde"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB378"
source_hash: "e0506483c3e51d3ecb326d6cd222ee2e3ccb96640ae8ffc009726d3718a0e45f"
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 378 (20252026) — Education finance: Classified School Employee Summer Assistance Program.
Existing law establishes the Classified School Employee Summer Assistance Program. Existing law authorizes local educational agencies to elect to participate in the program and authorizes a classified employee of a participating local educational agency who meets specified requirements to withhold an amount from the employee's monthly paycheck during the school year to be paid out during the summer recess period, as provided. Existing law requires the State Department of Education to apportion funds to participating local educational agencies within 30 days of receiving a request for payment by the participating local educational agency, as provided. Existing law provides that operation of the program is contingent upon an appropriation for the program in the annual Budget Act or another statute. Existing law defines "local educational agency" for these purposes as a school district or county office of education.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/03/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB378&version=20250AB37899INT)
2. **06/24/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB378&version=20250AB37898AMD)
3. **09/09/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB378&version=20250AB37897AMD)
4. **10/03/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB378&version=20250AB37895CHP)
5. **AB378** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB378)
6. **09/16/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB378&version=20250AB37896ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **72** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **122** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **52** (pass) · upper
- AB 378 Valencia Assembly Third Reading — **6411** (pass) · lower
- AB 378 Valencia Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **6112** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB378 Valencia et al. By Cervantes — **299** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Education] — **60** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **41** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **60** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Valencia — primary (person)
- Cervantes — principal coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-03** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-04** From printer. May be heard in committee March 6.
- **2025-02-24** Referred to Coms. on P. E. & R. and ED. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 19). Re-referred to Com. on ED. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-27** Coauthors revised.
- **2025-03-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (May 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-06-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 11. Page 1823.) `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 L., P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-06-30** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2025-08-29** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 29). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-08-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-09** Joint Rule 61(a)(13) suspended. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 2568.)
- **2025-09-09** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-10** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-09-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 2990.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2025-09-13** Joint Rules 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3413.)
- **2025-09-13** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 61. Noes 12. Page 3463.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2025-10-03** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-03** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 258, 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/6eb5fdf8-244b-4b9f-90c0-8d6af6408dde`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).