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 02/21/25 - Introduced

 SB-837 Disaster and emergency preparedness.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 01/05/2026 02:00 PM

SB837:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 January 05, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 March 26, 2025

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 837

Introduced by Senator Reyes

February 21, 2025

 An act to add Section 69514.7 to the Education Code, amend Section 9120 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to student financial aid. disaster and emergency preparedness.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 837, as amended, Reyes.
 Student financial aid: online technology platforms: guidance: training: media campaign. Disaster and emergency preparedness.

Existing law establishes an Aging and Disability Resource Connection (ADRC) program, administered by the California Department of Aging, to provide information to consumers and their families on available long-term services and supports (LTSS) programs and to assist older adults, caregivers, and persons with disabilities in accessing LTSS programs at the local level. Existing law requires ADRC programs to provide specified services, including, among other things, enhanced information and referral services and other assistance at hours that are convenient for the public.

This bill would further require ADRC programs to provide disaster and emergency preparedness training specifically designed to help older adults and people with disabilities prepare for
 emergencies and ensure their safety before, during, and after natural disasters and other emergency events, as specified.

Existing law requires each campus of the University of California, the California State University, and the California Community Colleges, each independent institution of higher education, and certain private postsecondary educational institutions to provide students with the Financial Aid Shopping Sheet as developed by the United States Department of Education to inform students or individuals who have been offered admission about financial aid award packages, as specified.

Existing law establishes the Student Aid Commission as the primary state agency for the administration of state-authorized student financial aid programs available to students attending all segments of postsecondary education. Existing law authorizes the commission to, among other things, expend funds for purposes of disseminating information about all institutional,
 state, and federal student aid programs to potential applicants, and requires that distribution of information to primarily focus on potential applicants with the greatest financial need. Existing law requires the commission, in the event that the Financial Aid Shopping Sheet developed by the United States Department of Education is no longer available, to develop, in consultation with the Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, a similar form that the above-described postsecondary educational institutions would be required to use instead. Existing law requires the form to provide students and their families with information including, but not limited to, grant and scholarship opportunities and net costs associated with attendance at an institution.

Existing law, the Community College Student Financial Aid Outreach Program, requires the commission, in consultation with the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges, to develop and administer
 the program for the purpose of providing financial aid training to high school and community college counselors and advisers who work with students planning to attend or attending a community college, as specified. Existing law requires the training to also address the specific needs of community college students intending to transfer to a four-year institution of higher education, foster youth and former foster youth, homeless youth and former homeless youth, and students with disabilities.

This bill would require the commission, on or before July 1, 2027, to develop guidance for school districts, county offices of education, charter schools, and public libraries on how to use online technology platforms to assist low-income pupils, foster youth, and undocumented families in accessing student financial aid