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View the legislative bills report here. (updated June 26, 2026)
August 7, 2026
Legislative Update
Suspense File Hearings Take Place Next Week
The State Legislature returned from its summer recess on Monday, August 3, 2026, for the final sprint of the 2025-26 legislative session.
The Appropriations Committees in both houses serve as a clearinghouse for legislation that has an impact on state or local revenues or expenditures and, on August 13, both the Assembly and Senate Appropriations Committees will take up their suspense files and release hundreds of bills to the house floors for consideration. The committees will also hold a number of bills because of their fiscal implications to the state and local governments.
In many cases, the bills that make it out of the Appropriations Committees will do so because the authors agree to amendments that address fiscal concerns or reduce costs. The bills that do not make it out of the committees will be dead since it is the final year of the two-year legislative session.
The bills that we will be watching closely for ACCCA next week are the following:
Assembly Bill (AB) 1171 (Patel, D-San Diego) requires unspent Part-Time Community College Faculty Health Insurance Program funds to remain in a newly created fund for future eligible program costs instead of reverting to the General Fund and expresses legislative intent for districts to begin negotiating health insurance benefits for part-time faculty and their eligible dependents by January 1, 2030.
-ACCCA opposes
AB 2142 (Garcia, D-Rancho Cucamonga) creates a rebuttable presumption that a TK-14 district must convert certain short-term employee positions into classified service positions under specified conditions.
-ACCCA opposes
AB 2301 (Soria, D-Merced) requires the California Community Colleges (CCC) Chancellor’s Office (CCCCO) to establish a Community College Baccalaureate Degree in Nursing Pilot Program that would authorize ten community college districts to offer a Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree.
-ACCCA supports
AB 2694 (Alvarez, D-San Diego) modifies the CCC baccalaureate degree program by authorizing program duplication if there is no substantially similar program offered at the California State University (CSU) or University of California (UC) within the geographic region.
-ACCCA supports
Senate Bill (SB) 951 (Reyes, D-Colton) requires employers conducting layoffs, relocations, or terminations under the California Worker Adjustment and Retraining Act due substantially to artificial intelligence or other automated technology to disclose additional information in their required 60-day notice, including the job functions being automated.
-ACCCA opposes
SB 960 (Cabaldon, D-Yolo) modifies the CCC baccalaureate degree program duplicating CSU programs by limiting that prohibition to CSU programs offered within the local admission service area of the community college district, and creates an exception, beginning July 1, 2030, allowing duplication of a CSU program that has been designated as “impacted” for at least three consecutive years. The bill retains the existing statewide prohibition on duplication of UC programs.
-ACCCA supports
Audit Report to Prompt 2027 Legislation?
On Thursday morning, August 6, 2026, the California State Auditor released its report on community college district reserves. The audit examined reserve practices at the CCCCO and six community college districts.
While most recommendations are directed to the CCCCO—including improving oversight of district financial reporting, requiring risk-based reserve policies, and ensuring districts develop plans to spend excess reserves—the report includes one recommendation to the Legislature: to require districts to disclose reserve amounts and explain when reserves fall below or exceed recommended levels in their budgets. Notably, the audit does not recommend imposing a cap on reserve levels, which is something that Senator Bob Archuleta (D-Pico Rivera) has attempted to do via legislation in the past and that ACCCA has opposed.
