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 02/04/25 - Introduced

 AB-401 California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program: annual adjustment: renewal grants.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 02/25/2025 09:00 PM

AB401:v98#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Revised
 March 27, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 February 25, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 401

Introduced by Assembly Member Muratsuchi
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Castillo and Hoover)

February 04, 2025

 An act to repeal and add Section amend Sections 53070, 53071, and 53073 of the Education Code, relating to career technical education.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 401, as amended, Muratsuchi.
 California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program: 4-year annual adjustment: renewal grants.

Existing law establishes the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program, administered by the State Department of Education, with the purpose of encouraging, maintaining, and strengthening the delivery of high-quality career technical education programs. Existing law requires, for the 2021–22 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, $300,000,000 to be available to the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the program. Existing law requires a grant applicant to demonstrate a proportional dollar-for-dollar match and sets that amount at $2 for every $1 received from the program. Existing law prohibits an applicant from being awarded an amount higher than the amount that the allocation formula determines them to be eligible to receive under the program.
 Existing law authorizes a grant recipient under the program to consist of one or more, or any combination, of school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, or regional occupational centers or programs operated by joint powers authorities or county offices of education, as provided. Existing law provides that an applicant receiving a grant from the program in a prior fiscal year is eligible to apply to receive a renewal grant if the applicant’s career technical education program continues to meet specified requirements, as provided.

This bill would delete the latter provision. prohibition against an applicant being awarded more than the amount determined by the allocation formula and would provide, for the 2025–26 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter, that the amount to
 be made available to the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the program to be the amount appropriated in the prior fiscal year as adjusted by a specified percentage, as provided. The bill would instead provide that an applicant receiving a grant from the program in a prior fiscal year is required to receive a renewal grant for 3 additional years, as provided. The bill would instead require the department to, commencing require, beginning with the 2026–27 2025–26 fiscal year, designate a portion
 up to 90% of the grants awarded pursuant to the program as 4-year grants, to be designated for renewal grants and up to 10% to be designated for grants for new applicants, unless otherwise determined by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, as provided. The bill would authorize require the department Superintendent to revoke a 4-year grant for specified reasons, including if the department determines that
 cease distribution of funding and recover previously distributed funding if certain conditions occur, including, among others, that the grant recipient did not implement the program substantively as was initially proposed, as provided.

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.

 It is the intent of the Legislature to provide greater increased stability and to reflect increases in the cost of living in the funding for career technical education by automatically renewing grants awarded pursuant to
 available through the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program for three years if the grant recipient remains in compliance with the provisions of Chapter 16.5 (commencing with Section 53070) of Part 28 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education