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 03/24/25 - Amended Senate
 02/20/25 - Introduced

 SB-612 Pupil instruction: high school graduation requirements: career technical education. (2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 04/10/2025 09:00 PM

SB612:v96#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 April 10, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 April 08, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 March 24, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 612

Introduced by Senator Valladares
(Coauthor: Senator Alvarado-Gil)
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Alanis, Flora, Jeff Gonzalez, and Wallis)

February 20, 2025

 An act to amend Section 51225.3 of the Education Code, relating to pupil instruction. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 612, as amended, Valladares.
 Pupil instruction: high school graduation requirements: career technical education. 

Existing law requires a pupil to complete designated coursework while in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, in order to receive a diploma of graduation from high school. The coursework requirements include, among others, the completion of one course in visual or performing arts, foreign language, or career technical education. Existing law eliminates the authorization for career technical education to count toward that graduation requirement on July 1, 2027, or upon the occurrence of a specified event relating to career technical education requirements of the University of California and the California State University, whichever occurs earlier, as specified.

This bill, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature for this purpose, would delete the above-described authorization and instead would indefinitely require, commencing with pupils
 graduating in the 2031–32 school year, the completion of a separate, stand-alone one-semester course in career technical education, that is prohibited from being combined with any other course, as a high school graduation requirement. The bill, subject to an appropriation by the Legislature for this purpose, would require school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools with pupil in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, to, commencing with the 2028–29 school year, offer a separate, stand-alone one-semester course in career technical education, that is prohibited from being combined with any other course. To the extent that the bill imposes new duties on school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish
 procedures for making that reimbursement.

This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 YES 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 51225.3 of the Education Code, as amended by Section 1 of Chapter 560 of the Statutes of 2024, is amended to read:

51225.3.

 (a) A pupil shall complete all of the following while in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, in order to receive a diploma of graduation from high school:

(1) At least the following numbers of courses in the subjects specified, each course having a duration of one year, unless otherwise specified:

(A) Three courses in English.

(B) Two courses in mathematics. If the governing board of a school district requires more than two courses in mathematics for graduation, the governing board of the school district may award a pupil up to one mathematics course credit pursuant to
 Section 51225.35.

(C) Two courses in science, including biological and physical sciences.

(D) Three courses in social studies, including United States history and geography; world history, culture, and geography; a one-semester course in American government and civics; and a one-semester course in economics.

(E) One course in visual or performing arts, world language, or, commencing with the 2012–13 school year, career technical