AB 133: Education finance: education omnibus trailer bill.

Official summary

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

(1)Existing law, for 2025–26 fiscal year, appropriates $50,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for allocation to the Kern County Superintendent of Schools to augment the Mathematics Professional Learning Partnership to further support educator training, including mathematics coaches, teachers, and school administrators for implementation of the new mathematics curriculum framework in local educational agencies, and requires the Kern County Superintendent of Schools to submit a revised expenditure plan to the Department of Finance for approval by October 1, 2026.

This bill would require those funds to be available for encumbrance through June 30, 2031, and would delay the deadline for the submitting the revised expenditure report to December 1, 2026. By extending the encumbrance period for an existing appropriation, the bill would make an appropriation.

(2)The Early Education Act, among other things, establishes the California Prekindergarten Planning and Implementation Grant Program as a state early learning initiative with the goal of expanding access to classroom-based prekindergarten programs. Existing law appropriates $200,000,000 from the General Fund to the State Department of Education for the 2026–27 fiscal year for allocation to local educational agencies for the program, as specified. Existing law requires local educational agencies receiving grants pursuant to the program to do various activities, including, among other things, ensuring expenditures are consistent with the local educational agency’s local plan adopted pursuant to specified provisions.

This bill would, among other things, require a local educational agency that receives a grant pursuant to the program that has not developed a local plan, as described above, to develop that plan for consideration by the governing board or body at a public meeting, as provided, and to make the plan available for review upon request by the department.

Existing law requires the department to award $100,000,000 in competitive grants to local educational agencies to increase the number of highly-qualified teachers available to serve California state preschool programs and transitional kindergarten pupils, and to provide California state preschool program, transitional kindergarten, and kindergarten teachers with training in providing instruction in inclusive classrooms, culturally responsive instruction, supporting dual language learners, enhancing social-emotional learning, implementing trauma-informed practices and restorative practices, and mitigating implicit biases to eliminate exclusionary discipline.

This bill would authorize the department to allocate or prorate any returned or collected funds that were appropriated for certain purposes of the California Prekindergarten Planning and Implementation Grant Program to be used for the above-described competitive grants, and would extend the encumbrance and expenditure periods for those various appropriations for the program, as specified. By expanding the purposes and the encumbrance and expenditure periods of previously appropriated funds, the bill would make an appropriation.

Sponsors

“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 31, 2026Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2. August 31, 2026From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (August 31).
3. August 28, 2026From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F. R.
4. June 25, 2025In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
5. April 2, 2025Referred to Com. on B. & F. R.
6. March 20, 2025In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
7. March 20, 2025Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 17. Page 729.)
8. March 18, 2025Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
9. March 17, 2025(Ayes 53. Noes 17. Page 643.)
10. March 17, 2025Ordered to second reading.
11. March 17, 2025Withdrawn from committee.
12. February 3, 2025Referred to Com. on BUDGET.