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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Assembly Bill

AB 2191: High school graduation requirements: alternate pathways for individuals with exceptional needs: statewide resources.

Passed one chamber 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 2191 is a assembly bill introduced in the California Assembly on February 19, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: High school graduation requirements: alternate pathways for individuals with exceptional needs: statewide resources. Primary sponsor: Sharon Quirk-Silva (D). Most recent recorded action (August 13, 2026): In committee: Held under submission.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

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

Existing law establishes the California Collaborative for Educational Excellence to advise and assist school districts, county superintendents of schools, and charter schools in achieving their local control and accountability plan goals. Existing law requires a local educational agency to exempt an individual with exceptional needs who satisfies specific eligibility criteria from all courses and other requirements adopted by the governing board or body of the local educational agency that are additional to the statewide course requirements and to award the pupil a diploma of graduation from high school, as provided.

The bill would, subject to an appropriation, require the State Department of Education and the collaborative to, on or before July 1, 2027, establish a statewide resource focused on establishing alternate pathways to a diploma for individuals with exceptional needs through capacity building within the state’s system of support, training, and technical assistance.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Sharon Quirk-SilvaPrimary sponsorDemocraticAssembly67

“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. In committee: Held under submission.
  2. In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
  3. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  4. Referred to Com. on ED.
  5. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
  6. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5054.)
  7. Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
  8. From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 6).
  9. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  10. Read second time and amended.
  11. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 25).
  12. Referred to Com. on ED.

Sources

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