California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill
SB 1188: Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps: establishment and eligibility.
Enacted Official data
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
Last official action: ·Record last updated:
Plain-language summary
SB 1188 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on February 19, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps: establishment and eligibility. Primary sponsor: Bob Archuleta (D). Most recent recorded action (August 27, 2026): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 154, Statutes of 2026.
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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 authorizes the governing board of a school district maintaining a secondary school to establish in the school courses in military science and tactics that comply with provisions of federal law regarding Reserve Officers Training Corps units in educational institutions.
This bill would revise and recast those provisions by authorizing the governing board or body of a school district, county office of education, or charter school to establish in its schoolsites courses in military science and tactics that comply with provisions of federal law regarding Junior Reserve Officers’ Training Corps (JROTC) units in educational institutions.
Existing federal law requires a public secondary educational institution that maintains a JROTC unit to permit membership in the unit to homeschooled students residing in the area served by the institution who are qualified for membership in the unit but for lack of enrollment in the institution.
This bill would require a local educational agency offering a JROTC program within any of its schools to permit membership in the JROTC program for homeschooled pupils who reside within the attendance area of the local educational agency, if those pupils meet all applicable eligibility requirements for participation in the JROTC program other than enrollment in the school offering the JROTC program.
The bill would require the State Department of Education to make information about existing JROTC programs available on its internet website and distribute implementation guidance to local educational agencies on an annual basis.
Sponsors
Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bob Archuleta | Primary sponsor | Democratic | Senate | 30 |
“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.
Recent official actions
- Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 154, Statutes of 2026.
- Approved by the Governor.
- Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 6158.) Ordered to the Senate.
- Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
- From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 5).
- From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
- From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on M. & V.A. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on M. & V.A.
- Referred to Coms. on ED. and M. & V.A.
- In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
- Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4419.) Ordered to the Assembly.