AB 1412: Special education: pupil transfers: residency requirements: records.

Official summary

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

(1)If an individual with exceptional needs, as defined, transfers from outside the state to a district, as defined, in the state, or transfers from district to district, within the same academic year, existing law requires local educational agencies, as defined, to provide the pupil with a free appropriate public education, including services comparable to those described in the previously approved individualized education program, in consultation with the parents, until the local educational agency conducts a federally required assessment, if determined to be necessary by the local educational agency, and develops a new individualized education program, if appropriate, that is consistent with federal and state law.

This bill would require a local educational agency, within 30 days of receipt of official records or specified unofficial records, to either adopt and implement the individualized education program previously adopted for the pupil or develop, adopt, and implement a new individualized education program for the pupil that is consistent with federal and state law, if applicable. To the extent the bill would impose additional duties on local education agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

(2)Existing law ratifies the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, as specified.

Existing law requires the new school in which an individual with exceptional needs enrolls to take reasonable steps to promptly obtain the pupil’s records from their previous school, including the individualized education program and supporting documents and any other records relating to the provision of special education and related services to the pupil, pursuant to specified federal law.

This bill would expressly require those reasonable steps to also be consistent with specified requirements of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children, and would require the new school to accept unofficial records provided by the pupil’s parent or guardian until validated by official records, consistent with specified requirements of the Interstate Compact on Educational Opportunity for Military Children. To the extent the bill would impose additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

(3)Existing law provides that each person between 6 and 18 years of age not exempted is subject to compulsory full-time education and requires a person subject to compulsory education to attend the public full-time day school or continuation school or classes in the school district in which the residence of the parents or legal guardian is located. Existing law provides that a pupil complies with the residency requirements if the pupil’s parent is transferred or is pending transfer to a military installation within the state while on active military duty pursuant to an official military order, and requires a parent to provide proof of residence in the school district within 10 days after the published arrival date provided on official documentation.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 2 · Republican 3

“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. October 7, 2025Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 453, Statutes of 2025.
2. October 7, 2025Approved by the Governor.
3. September 2, 2025Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
4. August 26, 2025In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
5. August 25, 2025Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2252.).
6. August 20, 2025Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
7. August 19, 2025From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.
8. July 15, 2025From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
9. June 18, 2025From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on M. & V.A. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on M. & V.A.
10. June 4, 2025Referred to Coms. on ED. and M. & V.A.
11. May 23, 2025In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
12. May 23, 2025Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 1657.)