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 02/20/26 - Introduced

 AB-2490 Teacher credentialing: emergency career substitute teaching permit: alternative qualifications.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/15/2026 09:00 PM

AB2490:v95#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 June 15, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 13, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 06, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 16, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 2490

Introduced by Assembly Member Valencia
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Patel)

February 20, 2026

An act to amend Section 44300.5 of the Education Code, relating to teachers.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2490, as amended, Valencia.
 Teacher credentialing: emergency career substitute teaching permit: alternative qualifications.

Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to establish standards and procedures for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Under existing regulations, the requirements for the initial issuance of an emergency career substitute teaching permit include, among other requirements, verification by an employer that the applicant has completed at least 90 days of substitute teaching in each of the 3 years immediately preceding the date of the application either in the school district or, if the county office of education assigns substitute teachers, in one or more school districts in the county, as provided.

This bill would require the commission to accept, as an alternative to verification of 90 days of substitute teaching described above, verification that the substitute teacher has received at least
 5 hours of professional development, an orientation training, and an assigned teaching mentor program, as provided. The bill would authorize a holder of an emergency career substitute teaching permit who was issued the permit based on the alternatives pursuant to these provisions to serve up to 60 70 cumulative days in a single classroom, including for special education teachers. The bill would require, the first time a permitholder who was issued a permit issued pursuant to these provisions has their permit renewed, the permitholder to provide verification of 30 hours of professional development, as provided. The bill would require a permit issued or renewed pursuant to these provisions to be valid for 12 months. The bill would require a local educational agency to follow specified procedures before assigning a
 substitute who holds a career substitute permit and to annually report specified information to its governing board or governing body and additional information to the Commission on Teacher Credentialing related to those assignments.

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.

 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(1) California’s public education system continues to experience teacher shortages, particularly in high-need subject areas and schools serving low-income pupils, English learners, and pupils with disabilities.

(2) (A) In recent years, the state has sustained the number of pathways available to help local educational agencies fill classrooms when fully credentialed teachers are not available, including, but not limited to, the short-term staff permit, provisional internship permit,
 teaching permit for statutory leave, emergency career substitute permit, and internship programs.

(B) These pathways generally require evidence of recruitment efforts, governing board approval, and some form of professional preparation, support, or training which reflects California’s longstanding commitment to ensuring that flexibility in staffing is accompanied by safeguards for instructional quality.

(3) The Legislature affirms that the long-term solution to staffing shortages must be a sustained commitment to fully credentialed, appropriately assigned teachers in every classroom.

(4) This act is not intended to replace or diminish California’s commitment to educator quality, but to provide limi