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AB-1296 • 2026

Local educational agencies: reserve funds.

Local educational agencies: reserve funds.

Education Housing
Enacted

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

Sponsor
Bonta
Last action
2025-10-10
Official status
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 508, Statutes of 2025.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details about the type or extent of technical assistance to be provided by the Department of Housing and Community Development.

Local Educational Agencies Can Reserve Funds for Housing Projects

This law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to create a form that helps schools notify the department about their interest in using school property for housing projects, and it also allows the department to provide technical assistance if requested.

What This Bill Does

  • Requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to make available on its website by January 1, 2027, a form that enables local educational agencies to notify the department about their interest in using real property they own for housing projects.
  • Requires the department to review information submitted through this form and share it online.
  • Allows the Department of Housing and Community Development to provide technical assistance to local educational agencies if they request it after submitting the notice, specifically for predevelopment activities related to a housing project on school-owned real property.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Local educational agencies
  • The Department of Housing and Community Development

Terms To Know

local educational agency
A school district or other organization that provides public education.
technical assistance
Help given by experts to solve problems and improve processes, specifically for predevelopment activities related to housing projects on real property owned by local educational agencies.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not specify the exact nature of the technical assistance provided.
  • It is unclear how many local educational agencies will use this form or request assistance.

Bill History

  1. 2025-10-10 California Legislative Information

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 508, Statutes of 2025.

  2. 2025-10-10 California Legislative Information

    Approved by the Governor.

  3. 2025-09-16 California Legislative Information

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

  4. 2025-09-09 California Legislative Information

    Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 66. Noes 8. Page 3119.).

  5. 2025-09-08 California Legislative Information

    In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

  6. 2025-09-08 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 8. Page 2618.).

  7. 2025-09-02 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  8. 2025-08-29 California Legislative Information

    Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

  9. 2025-08-29 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 29).

  10. 2025-06-30 California Legislative Information

    In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

  11. 2025-06-18 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  12. 2025-06-11 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on HOUSING.

  13. 2025-06-03 California Legislative Information

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

  14. 2025-06-02 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 5. Page 1920.)

  15. 2025-05-27 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  16. 2025-05-23 California Legislative Information

    Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

  17. 2025-05-23 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (May 23).

  18. 2025-05-23 California Legislative Information

    Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)

  19. 2025-05-21 California Legislative Information

    Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1627.)

  20. 2025-05-21 California Legislative Information

    In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

  21. 2025-05-14 California Legislative Information

    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

  22. 2025-05-01 California Legislative Information

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

  23. 2025-04-28 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on ED.

  24. 2025-04-28 California Legislative Information

    Coauthors revised.

  25. 2025-04-21 California Legislative Information

    (Pending re-refer to Com. on ED.)

  26. 2025-04-21 California Legislative Information

    Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 1163.)

  27. 2025-04-21 California Legislative Information

    Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

  28. 2025-04-10 California Legislative Information

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

  29. 2025-04-01 California Legislative Information

    Re-referred to Com. on H. & C.D.

  30. 2025-03-28 California Legislative Information

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

  31. 2025-03-28 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and ED.

  32. 2025-02-24 California Legislative Information

    Read first time.

  33. 2025-02-22 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 24.

  34. 2025-02-21 California Legislative Information

    Introduced. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 1296, Bonta.
Local educational agencies: reserve funds.
Existing law requires the Department of Housing and Community Development to develop and publish specified reports, including, among others, a study of farmworker housing conditions, needs, and solutions. Existing law authorizes the department to provide technical assistance for specified purposes, including in developing housing for students and faculty of universities and colleges, as provided.
This bill would require the department, on or before January 1, 2027, to make available on its internet website a form that enables a local educational agency to notify the department of the agency’s interest in using real property that it owns for a housing project. The bill would require the department to review the information submitted via the form and make the information available on its internet website. The bill would also require the
department to provide technical assistance, as specified, to a local educational agency that submits the notice described above and requests technical assistance, for the purpose of supporting predevelopment activities related to a housing project located on real property owned by the local educational agency.

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