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 |Add To My Favorites |Track Bill | Version: 07/30/25 - Chaptered
 07/16/25 - Enrolled
 05/27/25 - Amended Senate
 03/10/25 - Amended Assembly
 02/21/25 - Introduced

 AB-1216 Elementary and secondary education: omnibus.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 07/30/2025 09:00 PM

AB1216:v95#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Assembly Bill

 No. 1216

 CHAPTER 88

 An act to amend Sections 8208, 44256, 48901.7, and 51222 of the Education Code, relating to elementary and secondary education. 

 [
 Approved by

 Governor
 July 30, 2025.

 Filed with

 Secretary of State
 July 30, 2025.
 ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1216, Committee on Education.
 Elementary and secondary education: omnibus.

(1) Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to, among other duties, establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law requires the holder of a single subject teaching credential or a standard secondary credential or a special secondary teaching credential who either (A) has completed specified coursework approved by the commission at a regionally accredited institution of higher education in any subject commonly taught in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, other than the subject for which the credentialholder is already certificated to teach, or (B) has been verified as having subject matter competence, as specified, for any subject commonly taught in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, other than the subject for which the credentialholder is already certificated to teach, to be eligible to have that subject
 appear on their credential as an authorization to teach that subject.

This bill would revise the above-described eligibility requirements for a credentialholder to have a subject appear on their credential as an authorized subject for the credentialholder teach by removing the qualification that the subject be one that the credentialholder is not already credentialed to teach.

(2) Existing law requires both the adopted course of study for grades 1 to 6, inclusive, to include physical education for a total period of time of not less of than 200 minutes each 10 schooldays, as specified, and the adopted course of study for grades 7 to 12, inclusive, to require all pupils to attend upon the courses of physical education for a total period of time of not less than 400 minutes each 10 schooldays, unless an alternate term schedule described below has been adopted or the pupil has been excused or exempted, as
 provided.

Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district maintaining any of grades 6 to 12, inclusive, to adopt a policy providing for an alternate term schedule for physical education courses if certain conditions are met, including, among others, that pupils in grade 6 receive no less than 400 minutes of instruction every 10 days for a semester of not fewer than 18 weeks during the regular school year, for a total of 3,600 instructional minutes for the school year, and that pupils in grades 7 to 12, inclusive, receive no less than 800 minutes of instruction every 10 days for a semester of not fewer than 18 weeks during the regular school year, for a total of 7,200 instructional minutes for the school year.

This bill would clarify that the alternative term schedule minimum minute requirements are required to be calculated instead by schooldays.

(3) This bill would correct cross references and references to entities.

Digest Key

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

Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 8208 of the Education Code, as amended by Section 7 of Chapter 73 of the Statutes of 2024, is amended to read:

8208.

 (a) (1) A child is eligible for the part-day California state preschool program if both of the following requirements are met:

(A) The child is one of the following:

(i) A two-year-old child and the California state preschool program has chosen to enroll the two-year-old child in accordance with the guidance developed pursuant to Section 8207.1.

(ii) A three-year-old child.

(iii) A four-year-old child.

(iv) Enrolled in kindergarten pursuant to Section 48000.

(B) The child’s family is one of the following:

(i) A current aid recipient.

(ii) Income eligible.

(iii) Homeless.

(iv) One whose child