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 08/29/25 - Amended Senate
 06/30/25 - Amended Senate
 03/27/25 - Amended Assembly
 02/13/25 - Introduced

 AB-640 Local educational agencies: governance training.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 10/13/2025 09:00 PM

AB640:v94#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Assembly Bill

 No. 640

 CHAPTER 618

 An act to add Article 6.5 (commencing with Section 35220) to Chapter 2 of Part 21 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Education Code, relating to local educational agencies. 

 [
 Approved by

 Governor
 October 11, 2025.

 Filed with

 Secretary of State
 October 11, 2025.
 ]

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 640, Muratsuchi.
 Local educational agencies: governance training.

(1) Existing law requires all local agency officials to receive training in ethics, at specified intervals, if the local agency provides certain monetary payments to a member of a legislative body, as provided. Existing law requires a local agency to provide information on available ethics training to its officials and authorizes a local agency or an association of local agencies to offer the ethics training, as provided. Existing law requires a local agency to maintain specified records related to the ethics training of its officials. Existing law defines “local agency” to include, among others, a school district, county office of education, and charter school, and defines “local agency official” to include, among others, a member of the governing board of a school district, a county board of education, or the governing body of a charter school, for these
 purposes.

This bill would require all local educational agency officials, as defined to include any regular member of a governing board of a school district or a county board of education, or any regular member of the governing body of a charter school or a nonprofit public benefit corporation operating a charter school, as specified, to receive training in K–12 public education school finance laws, as defined, except as otherwise provided. The bill would prescribe the timelines within which the training is required to be completed and the methods that a local educational agency or a consortium of local educational agencies may offer or arrange to provide that training, as provided. The bill would require the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team to create curriculum covering specified topics of K–12 school finance laws that would be required to be used to satisfy the training requirement, as provided. The bill would require local educational agencies to maintain specified records related to this training.

By imposing new duties on school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, the bill would constitute a state-mandated local program.

(2) 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.

 Article 6.5 (commencing with Section 35220) is added to Chapter 2 of Part 21 of Division 3 of Title 2 of the Education Code, to read:

 Article
 6.5. Training

35220.

 For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply:

(a) “Entity managing a charter school” means a nonprofit public benefit corporation operating a charter school consistent with Section 47604.

 (b) “K–12 public education school finance laws” includes both of the following:

(1) Laws related to the creation and approval of a local educational agency budget to support pupil learning and achievement, including, but not limited to, Chapter 6 (commencing with Section 42100) of Part 24.

(2) Laws related to fiscal penalties for noncompliance, including, but not limited to, those in Chapter 7 (commencing with Section 42238) of Part 24, Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 46100) of Part 26 of Division 4, including Sections 4