AB-640 • 2026

Local educational agencies: governance training.

Education

Enacted

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

Sponsor: Muratsuchi (A) , Wicks
Last action: 2025-10-11
Official status: Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 618, Statutes of 2025.
Effective date: Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material did not provide specific details on the consequences of non-compliance or the exact enforcement date, which are noted as limits and unknowns in the explanation.

Training for School Officials

This law requires local educational agency officials to receive training on K-12 education finance laws and sets rules for when this training must be completed.

What This Bill Does

Requires local educational agency officials, including board members of public schools and charter schools, to take a course on K-12 education finance laws.
Sets specific times for the training to be completed, such as within one year after becoming an official and every five years afterward.
Allows school districts, county offices, or groups of these agencies to organize this training.
Requires the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team to create a curriculum on K-12 finance laws that must be used for the training.
Needs local educational agencies to keep records about who took the training and when.

Who It Names or Affects

Local educational agency officials, including board members of public schools and charter schools.

Terms To Know

K-12 education finance laws: Rules about how money is spent in elementary and secondary schools.
Local educational agency officials: People who make decisions for public schools, charter schools, or county offices of education.

Limits and Unknowns

The bill does not specify what happens if someone does not complete the required training.
It is unclear when exactly this law will start to be enforced.
There may be costs that local agencies need to pay for setting up and running these trainings.

Bill History

2025-10-11 California Legislative Information
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 618, Statutes of 2025.
2025-10-11 California Legislative Information
Approved by the Governor.
2025-09-22 California Legislative Information
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2025-09-10 California Legislative Information
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3234.).
2025-09-09 California Legislative Information
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-09-09 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2700.).
2025-09-02 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-08-29 California Legislative Information
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
2025-08-29 California Legislative Information
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29).
2025-08-18 California Legislative Information
In committee: Referred to suspense file.
2025-07-09 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-06-30 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.
2025-06-19 California Legislative Information
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2025-06-18 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on ED.
2025-06-05 California Legislative Information
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
2025-06-04 California Legislative Information
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2056.)
2025-05-27 California Legislative Information
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
2025-05-23 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 23).
2025-05-23 California Legislative Information
Coauthors revised.
2025-04-23 California Legislative Information
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
2025-04-10 California Legislative Information
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2025-03-28 California Legislative Information
Re-referred to Com. on ED.
2025-03-27 California Legislative Information
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended.
2025-03-19 California Legislative Information
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-02-24 California Legislative Information
Referred to Com. on ED.
2025-02-14 California Legislative Information
From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
2025-02-13 California Legislative Information
Read first time. To print.

Official Summary Text

AB 640, Muratsuchi.
Local educational agencies: governance training.
(1) Existing law requires all local agency officials to receive training in ethics, at specified intervals, if the local agency provides certain monetary payments to a member of a legislative body, as provided. Existing law requires a local agency to provide information on available ethics training to its officials and authorizes a local agency or an association of local agencies to offer the ethics training, as provided. Existing law requires a local agency to maintain specified records related to the ethics training of its officials. Existing law defines “local agency” to include, among others, a school district, county office of education, and charter school, and defines “local agency official” to include, among others, a member of the governing board of a school district, a county board of education, or the governing body of a charter school, for these
purposes.
This bill would require all local educational agency officials, as defined to include any regular member of a governing board of a school district or a county board of education, or any regular member of the governing body of a charter school or a nonprofit public benefit corporation operating a charter school, as specified, to receive training in K–12 public education school finance laws, as defined, except as otherwise provided. The bill would prescribe the timelines within which the training is required to be completed and the methods that a local educational agency or a consortium of local educational agencies may offer or arrange to provide that training, as provided. The bill would require the County Office Fiscal Crisis and Management Assistance Team to create curriculum covering specified topics of K–12 school finance laws that would be required to be used to satisfy the training requirement, as provided. The bill would require local educational agencies to maintain specified records related to this training.
By imposing new duties on school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, the bill would constitute a state-mandated local program.
(2) The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory
provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

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