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AB-629 • 2026

School districts: equipment inventory.

School districts: equipment inventory.

Education
Enacted

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

Sponsor
Ward
Last action
2025-07-28
Official status
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 62, Statutes of 2025.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

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School Equipment Inventory Rules

This law changes how school districts keep track of their equipment by raising the minimum cost for items that need to be listed in an inventory and setting up a system to update this cost every two years based on inflation.

What This Bill Does

  • Raises the value at which school districts must start keeping records of equipment from $500 to $1,500.
  • Requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to adjust this threshold amount every two years by considering inflation and rounding it to the nearest $50.
  • Needs the Superintendent to put the updated threshold on the State Department of Education’s website.

Who It Names or Affects

  • School districts in California
  • The Superintendent of Public Instruction

Terms To Know

Inventory
A list of all items owned by a school district that are worth more than $1,500.
Threshold value
The minimum cost an item must have to be included in the inventory. This amount will change every two years based on inflation.

Limits and Unknowns

  • Does not specify how school districts should use or manage their equipment.
  • Does not explain what happens if a district does not follow these rules.

Bill History

  1. 2025-07-28 California Legislative Information

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 62, Statutes of 2025.

  2. 2025-07-28 California Legislative Information

    Approved by the Governor.

  3. 2025-07-15 California Legislative Information

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.

  4. 2025-07-10 California Legislative Information

    In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.

  5. 2025-07-10 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2042.).

  6. 2025-07-08 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.

  7. 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.

  8. 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.

  9. 2025-06-11 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on ED.

  10. 2025-06-03 California Legislative Information

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

  11. 2025-06-02 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1841.)

  12. 2025-05-27 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

  13. 2025-05-23 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23).

  14. 2025-04-09 California Legislative Information

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

  15. 2025-03-27 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  16. 2025-03-11 California Legislative Information

    Re-referred to Com. on ED.

  17. 2025-03-10 California Legislative Information

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

  18. 2025-03-10 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on ED.

  19. 2025-02-14 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.

  20. 2025-02-13 California Legislative Information

    Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 629, Ward.
School districts: equipment inventory.
Existing law establishes the system of public elementary and secondary schools in this state and provides for their funding and governance. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to establish and maintain an inventory, as provided, of each item of equipment acquired by the school district that has a current market value that exceeds $500.
This bill would increase the above-described threshold value from $500 to instead be $1,500. The bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to biennially adjust that threshold market value by a specified inflation factor, rounded to the nearest $50, and to post the adjusted threshold
market value to the State Department of Education’s internet website.

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