AB 1204: Local control funding formula: school districts and charter schools: pupils experiencing homelessness: supplemental and concentration grants: regional adjustment factors: grade-span adequacy adjustments.

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

(1)Existing law establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for school districts and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified. Existing law requires funding pursuant to the local control funding formula to include a base grant that in each fiscal year is adjusted for inflation by the percentage change in the annual average value of the Implicit Price Deflator for State and Local Government Purchases of Goods and Services for the United States, as specified.

If the inflation adjustment for the base grant for a school district or charter school is calculated to be less than 4%, this bill would require the inflation adjustment for the base grant for a school district or charter school to instead be 4%. The bill would require the State Department of Education, on or before January 1, 2030, to establish and publish on its internet website regional cost adjustment factors in order address regional cost differences in housing and labor, and, commencing with the 2030–31 fiscal year, would require the adjustment to the base grant, whether calculated by the inflation adjustment or 4%, as applicable, to be further adjusted by multiplying that calculation by the applicable regional cost adjustment factor.

(2)Existing law requires the local control funding formula to include, in addition to the base grant, supplemental and concentration grant add-ons that are based on the percentage of pupils who are unduplicated pupils, as defined to include English learners, pupils eligible for free or reduced-price meals, and foster youth, as specified. Existing law requires school districts and charter schools to annually report their enrollment of unduplicated pupils to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, as specified, and requires county superintendents of schools to review and validate that pupil data, as provided. Existing law requires pupils who are classified in more than one of these groups to be counted only once for these purposes.

The bill would add pupils experiencing homelessness, as defined, to the categories of pupils who are unduplicated pupils for purposes of determining eligibility for supplemental and concentration grants. The bill would place reporting requirements on school districts and charter schools to implement these provisions. By imposing additional duties on county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools related to reporting unduplicated pupils, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

(3)Existing law requires the supplemental grant add-on to be equal to 20% of the base grants, as adjusted, for each school district’s or charter school’s percentage of unduplicated pupils, as specified, and requires the concentration grant add-on to be equal to 65% of the base grants, as adjusted, for each school district’s or charter school’s percentage of unduplicated pupils in excess of 55% of the school district’s or charter school’s total enrollment, as specified. Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt regulations that govern the expenditure of funds apportioned on the basis of the number and concentration of unduplicated pupils, as provided.

This bill, commencing with the 2030–31 fiscal year, would require the supplemental grant add-on to instead be equal to 35% of the base grants, as adjusted, for each school district’s or charter school’s percentage of unduplicated pupils, as specified, and would require the concentration grant add-on to instead be equal to 65% of the base grants, as adjusted, for each school district’s or charter school’s percentage of unduplicated pupils in excess of 45% of the school district’s or charter school’s total enrollment, as specified.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

1. August 13, 2026In committee: Held under submission.
2. June 15, 2026In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
3. June 4, 2026From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
4. May 6, 2026Referred to Com. on ED.
5. January 27, 2026In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
6. January 26, 2026Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 1. Page 3835.)
7. January 22, 2026Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
8. January 22, 2026From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (January 22).
9. January 22, 2026Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3806.)
10. May 23, 2025In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
11. May 14, 2025In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
12. May 6, 2025Re-referred to Com. on APPR.