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 03/10/25 - Amended Assembly
 02/19/25 - Introduced

 AB-865 Dual language immersion programs: instructional materials: grants.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 03/28/2025 09:00 PM

AB865:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 28, 2025

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 10, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 865

Introduced by Assembly Members Mark González and Solache
(Principal coauthor: Senator Cervantes)
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Carrillo, Fong, Garcia, Kalra, and Nguyen)
(Coauthor: Senator Limón)

February 19, 2025

An act to add and repeal Article 1 (commencing with Section 52100) of Chapter 7 of Part 28 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education Code, relating to pupil instruction, and making an appropriation therefor. instruction.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 865, as amended, Mark González.
 Dual language immersion programs: instructional materials: grants.

Existing law appropriates $10,000,000 from the General Fund for the 2021–22 fiscal year to the Superintendent of Public Instruction to administer the Dual Language Immersion Grant Program for the purpose of expanding access to quality dual language learning and fostering languages that English learners bring to California’s education system. Under that program, the State Department of Education is required to award a minimum of 25 one-time Dual Language Immersion Grants over a period of 3 fiscal years of up to $380,000 per grant to an eligible entity to expand or establish dual language immersion programs.

This bill would establish the Dual Language Immersion Education Instructional Materials Grant Program and would
 appropriate $5,000,000 from the General Fund to the Superintendent Program, to be administered by the Superintendent, for purposes of providing one-time grants of $100,000 to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools to increase available instructional materials in partner languages for dual language immersion programs at one or more schoolsites, as provided. The bill would require a grant recipient to report to the department, on or before June 29, 2029, on how grant funds were expended and provide the department with a physical or digital copy of instructional materials purchased with the grant funds. expended, including a list of any materials obtained or developed. The bill
 would require the department to submit a report to the appropriate policy and fiscal committees of the Legislature, on or before December 31, 2029, that includes the data received from the grant recipients. The bill would make implementation of these provisions contingent upon an appropriation by the Legislature for these purposes in the annual Budget Act or another statute.

Funds appropriated by this bill would be applied
 toward the minimum funding requirements for school districts and community college districts imposed by Section 8 of Article XVI of the California Constitution.

Digest Key

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

Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Article 1 (commencing with Section 52100) is added to Chapter 7 of Part 28 of Division 4 of Title 2 of the Education Code, to read:

 Article
 1. Dual Language Immersion Education Instructional Materials Grant Program

52100.

 For purposes of this article, the following definitions apply:

(a) “Dual language immersion” means an instructional setting where a pupil receives a portion of instruction in English and a portion of instruction in a partner language.

(b) “Local educational agency” means a school district, county office of education, or charter school.

(c) “Partner language” means a language other than English that is used to provide instruction to pupils in dual language immersion.

52101.(a)For the 2026–27 fiscal year, the sum of five million dollars ($5,000,000) is hereby appropriated from the General Fund to the department for allocation by the department to establish the Dual Language Immersion Education Instructional Materials Grant Program in the manner and for the purpose set forth in this article.

(b)The

52101.

 (a) The Dual Language Immersion Education Instruct