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 |Add To My Favorites |Track Bill | Version: 09/18/25 - Enrolled
 06/17/25 - Amended Assembly
 03/26/25 - Amended Senate
 01/15/25 - Introduced

 SB-75 Employment: Preapprenticeship Pathways to Employment Pilot Program.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 09/18/2025 02:00 PM

SB75:v96#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Enrolled
 September 18, 2025

 Passed
 IN 
 Senate
 September 13, 2025

 Passed
 IN 
 Assembly
 September 12, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 June 17, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 March 26, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 75

Introduced by Senator Smallwood-Cuevas

January 15, 2025

 An act to add and repeal Chapter 9.8 (commencing with Section 6275) of Title 7 of Part 3 of the Penal Code, relating to prisons.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 75, Smallwood-Cuevas.
 Employment: Preapprenticeship Pathways to Employment Pilot Program.

Existing law provides for various employment programs to assist formerly incarcerated individuals in finding and retaining employment, including the Pre-Release Construction Trades Certificate Program administered by the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and the Prison to Employment Program administered by the California Workforce Development Board.

Existing law establishes the California Workforce Development Board as the body responsible for assisting the Governor in the development, oversight, and continuous improvement of California’s workforce investment system and the alignment of the education and workforce investment systems to the needs of the 21st century economy and workforce.

This bill would, by January 1, 2028, require the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in partnership with the Department of Industrial Relations, to establish the Preapprenticeship Pathways to Employment Pilot Program. The bill would, until January 1, 2032, provide incarcerated individuals access to preapprenticeship training in the skilled construction and building trades. The bill would require the program to provide, among other things, instruction based on the Multi-Craft Core Curriculum and content coordinated with joint apprenticeship training committees. The bill would require the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation to implement the program at one men’s facility and one women’s facility. The bill would require the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, beginning January 1, 2029, to annually report certain data regarding
 participation in the program to the Legislature.

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.

 Chapter 9.8 (commencing with Section 6275) is added to Title 7 of Part 3 of the Penal Code, to read:

 CHAPTER
 9.8. Preapprenticeship Pathways to Employment Pilot Program

6275.

 (a) No later than January 1, 2028, the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, in partnership with the Department of Industrial Relations and recognized building and construction trades councils, shall establish the Preapprenticeship Pathways to Employment Pilot Program.

(b) The purpose of the program is to provide incarcerated individuals with access to high-quality preapprenticeship training aligned with state-registered apprenticeships in the skilled construction and building trades.

(c) The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall ensure equitable access to the program across each facility under its jurisdiction, including facilities housing women and
 gender-responsive institutions. The Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation shall implement the program in at least one men’s and one women’s facility.

(d) The program shall include all of the following:

(1) Instruction based on the Multi-Craft Core Curriculum (MC3), recognized by the State Building and Construction Trades Council of California. The instruction shall prepare participants for entry into a wide range of union-affiliated skilled trades, including, but not limited to, each of the following:

(A) Carpentry.

(B) Ironwork.

(C) Sheet metal.

(D) Laborers.

(E) Operating engineers.

(2) Availability to incarcerated individuals who are within 24 months of release and express interest in careers in the trades.

(3) Career readiness and case manageme