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AB-1034 • 2026

Teacher credentialing: programs of professional preparation: youth mental health.

Teacher credentialing: programs of professional preparation: youth mental health.

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Enacted

This bill passed the Legislature and reached final enactment based on the latest official action.

Sponsor
Ávila Farías
Last action
2025-07-14
Official status
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 46, Statutes of 2025.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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Teacher Training: Youth Mental Health

The law requires teacher training programs to teach future teachers about youth mental health.

What This Bill Does

  • Adds a requirement for teacher training programs to include basic knowledge of youth mental health.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Teacher training programs

Terms To Know

Credentialing
The process of giving someone official permission to teach by issuing a teaching certificate or license.
Commission on Teacher Credentialing
A group that sets rules for getting teaching certificates in California.

Limits and Unknowns

  • Does not specify how teacher training programs should include youth mental health education.
  • The exact date when the new requirement will start is not given.

Bill History

  1. 2025-07-14 California Legislative Information

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 46, Statutes of 2025.

  2. 2025-07-14 California Legislative Information

    Approved by the Governor.

  3. 2025-07-11 California Legislative Information

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.

  4. 2025-07-03 California Legislative Information

    In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.

  5. 2025-07-03 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1932.).

  6. 2025-07-01 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

  7. 2025-06-30 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.

  8. 2025-06-18 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  9. 2025-06-04 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on ED.

  10. 2025-05-23 California Legislative Information

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

  11. 2025-05-23 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1663.)

  12. 2025-05-15 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

  13. 2025-05-14 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14).

  14. 2025-05-01 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  15. 2025-04-22 California Legislative Information

    Re-referred to Com. on ED.

  16. 2025-04-21 California Legislative Information

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended.

  17. 2025-04-02 California Legislative Information

    In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

  18. 2025-03-10 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on ED.

  19. 2025-02-21 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

  20. 2025-02-20 California Legislative Information

    Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 1034, Ávila Farías.
Teacher credentialing: programs of professional preparation: youth mental health.
Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials. Existing law requires, as a minimum requirement for a preliminary multiple subject, single subject, or education specialist teaching credential, the satisfactory completion of a program of professional preparation that, among other things, has been accredited by the Committee on Accreditation on the basis of standards of program quality and effectiveness that have been adopted by the commission and provides specified experience that addresses, among other things, health education, including the study of nutrition, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and the physiological and sociological effects of the abuse of alcohol, narcotics, and drugs and the use of tobacco.
This bill would require that health education to also include
a basic understanding of youth mental health.

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