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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Assembly Bill

AB 1296: Local educational agencies: reserve funds.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

AB 1296 is a assembly bill introduced in the California Assembly on February 21, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Local educational agencies: reserve funds. Primary sponsor: Mia Bonta (D). It lists 2 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (October 10, 2025): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 508, Statutes of 2025.

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Official summary

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

Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop and publish specified reports, including, among others, a study of farmworker housing conditions, needs, and solutions. Existing law authorizes the department to provide technical assistance for specified purposes, including in developing housing for students and faculty of universities and colleges, as provided.

This bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2027, to make available on its internet website a form that enables a local educational agency to notify the department of the agency’s interest in using real property that it owns for a housing project. The bill would require the department to review the information submitted via the form and make the information available on its internet website. The bill would also require the department to provide technical assistance, as specified, to a local educational agency that submits the notice described above and requests technical assistance, for the purpose of supporting predevelopment activities related to a housing project located on real property owned by the local educational agency.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 3

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Mia BontaPrimary sponsorDemocraticAssembly18
Matt HaneyCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly17
Alex LeeCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly24

“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. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 508, Statutes of 2025.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
  4. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 66. Noes 8. Page 3119.).
  5. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
  6. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 8. Page 2618.).
  7. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  8. Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
  9. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 29).
  10. In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
  11. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  12. Referred to Com. on HOUSING.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page