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View the legislative bills report here. (updated June 6, 2025)
June 6, 2025
2025-26 State Budget Update
Neither the Senate Budget Subcommittee No. 1 on Education (Senate Sub 1), chaired by Senator John Laird (D-Santa Cruz), nor the Assembly Budget Subcommittee No. 3 on Education Finance (Assembly Sub 3), chaired by Assemblymember David Alvarez (D-San Diego), met this week to take action on the 2025-26 State Budget. In fact, Senate Sub 1 cancelled both of its scheduled hearings this week while Assembly Sub 3 did not have any scheduled hearings. While there were no hearings on the budget this week, there are a number of budget hearings in both houses scheduled for next week.
We expect that there will be a lot of budget activity next week considering the Legislature needs to approve its version of the 2025-26 State Budget by Sunday, June 15, 2025, or will forfeit legislator salaries and reimbursements for travel/living each day the budget remains unpassed, pursuant to Proposition 25 (2010). This means that the Legislature needs to have the main State Budget bill in print by next Thursday, June 12, 2025, due to the state’s 72-hour print rule. Pursuant to Proposition 54 (2016), all bills must be in print in their final form at least 72 hours before the Legislature can vote on it.
We want to remind you that it is important to view the State Budget bill that will be approved on or before June 15 as a placeholder measure since it is unlikely that bill will include negotiations with the Newsom Administration. What we have seen over the past several years is that the Legislature will approve its version of the State Budget, negotiate with Governor Gavin Newsom, and then approve a budget bill junior, which amends the main State Budget bill to capture the tri-party (Governor, Assembly Speaker, Senate President pro Tempore) agreement.
We will provide another State Budget update in next week’s ACCCA Update.
ACCCA Joins Coalition Letters with CCLC
Today, June 6, 2025, is the house of origin deadline. This means that bills introduced in the Assembly must be approved by the full house and get into the Senate and bills introduced in the Senate must be approved by the full house and get into the Assembly. Two bills that have cleared the house of origin deadline that ACCCA has a registered position on are as follows:
- Assembly Bill (AB) 90 (Jackson, D-Moreno Valley) would require community college districts (CCDs) to establish a program to allow overnight parking by eligible students. The plan must designate at least 50 parking spots on campus and at least one parking lot that will be used for the overnight parking program.
- ACCCA opposes this bill because it is not a feasible solution for unhoused students, would increase liability for districts, and would create a new costly mandate.
- ACCCA opposes this bill because it is not a feasible solution for unhoused students, would increase liability for districts, and would create a new costly mandate.
- AB 1400 (Soria, D-Merced) would require the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office (CCCCO) to develop a Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing Pilot Program that authorizes select CCDs to offer a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree. The bill would limit the pilot program to 15 CCDs statewide and would require the CCCCO to identify and select eligible CCDs based on specified criteria.
- ACCCA supports this bill because it bridges the nursing gap in the state by utilizing associate degree in nursing programs at community colleges to address the lack of capacity in public, four-year nursing schools.
- ACCCA supports this bill because it bridges the nursing gap in the state by utilizing associate degree in nursing programs at community colleges to address the lack of capacity in public, four-year nursing schools.
ACCCA will be joining a joint letter of opposition with the Community College League of California (CCLC) for AB 90 and a joint support letter with CCLC for AB 1400. The letters will include other organizations, CCDs, and individual colleges. Coalition letters are impactful because they show that there are multiple entities that share your position, and it tightens the messaging to make sure the key tenets of the positions are conveyed.
While both bills are in the Senate, neither have been set for a hearing date in the Senate Education Committee. We will be sure to post the letters to ACCCA’s webpage once they are finalized.
