AB-1255 • 2026

Pupil instruction: newcomer pupils: migrant education: migrant regions.

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Enacted

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

Sponsor: Committee on Education (A) - ()
Last action: 2025-10-01
Official status: Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 185, Statutes of 2025.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide details on how the changes will be funded or specific criteria for new definitions of 'migrant region'.

Helping New Students in Schools

This law changes how schools provide resources for new students, especially those who move a lot due to their family's work.

What This Bill Does

Requires the Instructional Quality Commission to include materials that help teachers support new students when adopting or updating instructional materials for kindergarten and grades 1 through 8 in English Language Arts and English Language Development.
Revises the definition of 'migrant region' to allow it to be made up of county offices of education, school districts within a county, public or private nonprofit agencies, or combinations of these entities.

Who It Names or Affects

New students in kindergarten and grades 1 through 8 who need extra help with English language development.
School districts, county offices of education, and nonprofit agencies involved in providing educational support to migrant children.

Terms To Know

migrant region: An area or organization that provides services for children who move frequently due to their family's work, such as agricultural workers.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify how the changes will be funded.
It is unclear what specific criteria must be met by the new definitions of 'migrant region'.

Bill History

2025-10-01 California Legislative Information
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 185, Statutes of 2025.
2025-10-01 California Legislative Information
Approved by the Governor.
2025-09-15 California Legislative Information
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
2025-09-04 California Legislative Information
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2912.).
2025-09-02 California Legislative Information
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-09-02 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2396.).
2025-08-21 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-08-20 California Legislative Information
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
2025-08-20 California Legislative Information
Ordered to third reading.
2025-08-20 California Legislative Information
Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, urgency clause adopted, passed, and to Assembly.
2025-07-14 California Legislative Information
In Senate. Held at Desk.
2025-07-14 California Legislative Information
Ordered to the Senate.
2025-07-10 California Legislative Information
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-07-10 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2043.).
2025-07-08 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
2025-07-07 California Legislative Information
From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.
2025-06-25 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-06-16 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.
2025-06-11 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on ED.
2025-06-03 California Legislative Information
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
2025-06-02 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1919.).
2025-05-27 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-05-23 California Legislative Information
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
2025-05-23 California Legislative Information
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23).
2025-05-23 California Legislative Information
Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
2025-05-14 California Legislative Information
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
2025-05-06 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-05-05 California Legislative Information
Read second time and amended.
2025-05-01 California Legislative Information
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 30).
2025-04-22 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on ED.
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.
2025-03-10 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on ED.
2025-02-24 California Legislative Information
Read first time.
2025-02-22 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.
2025-02-21 California Legislative Information
Introduced. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 1255, Committee on Education.
Pupil instruction: newcomer pupils: migrant education: migrant regions.
(1) Existing law requires the Instructional Quality Commission to recommend curriculum frameworks and instructional materials for adoption to the State Board of Education. Existing law requires, at the next regularly scheduled revision of the curriculum framework in English Language Arts and English Language Development, the commission to consider including content designed to provide teachers with resources to meet the unique academic and English language development needs of newcomer pupils at all grade levels. Existing law also requires the commission to ensure that the instructional materials for pupils in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 8, inclusive, that it recommends to the State Board of Education for adoption include resources to help teachers meet the needs of newcomer pupils.
This bill would instead require, at
the next adoption or followup adoption of instructional materials for use in kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, in English Language Arts and English Language Development, the commission to consider including resources to help teachers meet the unique academic and English language development needs of newcomer pupils.
(2) Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt a state master plan for services to migrant children, as provided. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in implementing the state master plan for services to migrant children, to establish the service regional system as the primary method for the delivery of services to migrant children. Existing law requires the Superintendent to review and approve plans for the establishment of service regions and to incorporate specified criteria in the approval of regional plans, as provided.
Existing law
defines “migrant region,” for purposes of this law pertaining to services for migrant children, as an operating agency comprised of a county or a combination of counties, or a public or private nonprofit agency not controlled in whole or part by a school district, or a combination of counties and agencies, meeting specified criteria.
This bill would revise the definition of “migrant region” to instead mean an operating agency meeting the specified criteria comprised of a county office of education or a combination of county offices of education, a combination of school districts within a county, a public or private nonprofit agency not controlled in whole or part by a school district, or a combination of county offices of education and public or private nonprofit agencies.
(3) This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

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