Commission on Teacher Credentialing: membership.

Children Education Elections

Enacted

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

Sponsor: Muratsuchi
Last action: 2025-10-01
Official status: Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 181, Statutes of 2025.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The bill summary and digest do not specify exact dates for implementation or current membership numbers.

Changing Who Can Be on a Teacher Group

This law changes who can be part of a group that helps decide what teachers need to know and do to teach in California schools, adding preschool and early childhood education experts.

What This Bill Does

Adds a teacher with a child development permit from state-funded preschools or prekindergarten programs as one of the six practicing teachers on the Commission on Teacher Credentialing.
Reduces the number of public representatives from three to two when there is an opening after January 1, 2026.
Requires the governor to appoint an early childhood faculty member representing higher education systems instead of a public representative.

Who It Names or Affects

The Commission on Teacher Credentialing
Preschool and prekindergarten teachers in California
Early childhood faculty members from higher education institutions

Terms To Know

Commission on Teacher Credentialing: A group that sets rules for what teachers need to know and do to teach in California schools.
Public representatives: People who speak for the public's interests on the Commission.

Limits and Unknowns

The exact date when changes will happen is not clear.
It does not specify how many people are already in these roles before January 1, 2026.

Bill History

2025-10-01 California Legislative Information
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 181, Statutes of 2025.
2025-10-01 California Legislative Information
Approved by the Governor.
2025-09-16 California Legislative Information
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
2025-09-09 California Legislative Information
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3118.).
2025-09-08 California Legislative Information
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-09-08 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2580.).
2025-07-01 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-06-30 California Legislative Information
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
2025-06-18 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-06-09 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED.
2025-05-21 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on ED.
2025-05-08 California Legislative Information
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
2025-05-08 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 1481.)
2025-05-01 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-04-30 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 30).
2025-04-22 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-04-21 California Legislative Information
Read second time and amended.
2025-04-10 California Legislative Information
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 9).
2025-03-19 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on ED.
2025-03-18 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended.
2025-03-10 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on ED.
2025-02-21 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2025-02-20 California Legislative Information
Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 1123, Muratsuchi.
Commission on Teacher Credentialing: membership.
Existing law establishes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, consisting of 15 voting members, including the Superintendent of Public Instruction as a permanent member and 14 other members, including 6 practicing teachers from public elementary and secondary schools and 3 representatives of the public, appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate, serving staggered 4-year terms, as provided.
The bill would authorize the governor to appoint to the commission, as one of the 6 practicing teachers, a teacher with a commission-issued child development teacher permit who teaches at a licensed state-funded preschool or prekindergarten program, as provided. The bill would, upon the occurrence of the first vacancy of a public representative position on or after January 1, 2026, reduce the number of public representatives on the commission from 3 to 2 and require the governor to appoint instead one early childhood faculty member representing the early childhood higher education systems who teaches at either (1) an early childhood or child development baccalaureate degree program at one of the California State University or University of California campuses or (2)
an associate degree program in one of the California Community Colleges’ early childhood education programs.

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