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 03/23/26 - Amended Senate
 02/19/26 - Introduced

 SB-1207 California Conservation Corps.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 04/15/2026 09:00 PM

SB1207:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 April 15, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 March 23, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 1207

Introduced by Senator Laird

February 19, 2026

An act to amend Section 21023.5 of the Government Code, to amend Section 1171 of the Labor Code, and to amend Sections 14000, 14300, 14303, 14304, 14310, 14315, 14318, 14400, and 14415 14415, and 14424 of, to repeal Section 14308 of, and to repeal Chapter 3.2 (commencing with Section 14350) of Division 12 of, the Public Resources Code, relating to the California Conservation Corps, and making an appropriation therefor. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1207, as amended, Laird.
 California Conservation Corps.

Existing

(1) Existing law establishes the California Conservation Corps in the Natural Resources Agency. Existing law requires the Governor to appoint the director of the corps to act as the administrative officer of the corps and assigns specified responsibilities to the director. Existing law makes various findings and declarations relating to the corps.

This bill would
 revise those findings and declarations relating to the corps, as provided. The bill would eliminate the director’s authority to use services, materials, or property of state agencies, to make agreements with state agencies, or
 to establish a training program for members of county or city conservation corps, as provided. The bill would also repeal a redundant statute.

Existing law requires young adults participating in the corps program to generally be engaged in projects that do a list of specified things, including assisting in fire prevention and suppression. Existing law requires those projects to provide opportunities to the public for their education or other specified purposes.

This bill would include projects supporting wildfire and instead require those projects to assist in wildfire prevention and suppression, and would include
 forest resiliency, among other projects, to that list, as specified. This bill would require the projects to also provide those opportunities to tribal entities
 California Native American tribes and corpsmembers.

Existing law authorizes the corps to enter into a contract with an individual or a collective of community conservation corps for a project or program, as provided.

This bill would authorize the corps to also enter into a contract with a conservation corps established by California Native American tribes for a project or program, as specified.

Existing law requires the corps to report to specified committees of the Legislature by December 31 of each year the number of corpsmembers in the cohort who received an associate or bachelor’s degree while serving in the corps or in the 12-month period following final separation from the corps and, among other things, to the extent feasible, the number of corpsmembers who
 enrolled in postsecondary education in the 12-month period following final separation from the corps.

This bill would delete that requirement to report on the number of corpsmembers who received an associate or bachelor’s degree. The bill would revise the requirement to report on the number of corpsmembers who enrolled in postsecondary education to have that data reported and disaggregated as the number enrolled at a California Community College, California State University, University of California, or private postsecondary educational institution.

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(2) The Public Employees’ Retirement Law creates the Public Employees’ Retirement System (PERS), which is administered by the Board of Administration of the Public Employees’ Retirement System. PERS provides defined benefits to its members based on their final compensation, credited service, and age at retirement, subject to certain variations. Existing law establishes the Public Employees’ Retirement Fund, which is a trust fund that is appropriated continuously for specified purposes, into which certain moneys are deposited, including employee contributions.

Existing law authorizes a member of PERS to elect to receive service credit for certain public servic