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SB-374 • 2026

Local educational agencies: annual reporting requirements: IDEA Addendum.

Local educational agencies: annual reporting requirements: IDEA Addendum.

Education
Enacted

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

Sponsor
Archuleta
Last action
2025-10-10
Official status
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 580, Statutes of 2025.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The official source material does not provide specific details on what happens after January 1, 2027, regarding annual reports or how schools will adapt without the IDEA Addendum requirements.

Local Schools: Annual Reporting Requirements

The law extends the deadline for local educational agencies to stop submitting annual reports and eliminates the requirement to create an IDEA Addendum.

What This Bill Does

  • Extends the deadline by which local educational agencies must stop submitting annual reports from January 1, 2026, to January 1, 2027.
  • Eliminates the requirement for the State Board of Education to adopt an IDEA Addendum and for certain schools and education offices to complete it.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Local educational agencies such as school districts, charter schools, and county offices of education.

Terms To Know

IDEA Addendum
An additional document that was required to be created by the State Board of Education to improve services for students with special needs.

Limits and Unknowns

  • The bill does not specify what happens after January 1, 2027, regarding annual reports.
  • It is unclear how schools and education offices will adapt without the IDEA Addendum requirements.

Bill History

  1. 2025-10-10 California Legislative Information

    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 580, Statutes of 2025.

  2. 2025-10-10 California Legislative Information

    Approved by the Governor.

  3. 2025-09-03 California Legislative Information

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.

  4. 2025-08-28 California Legislative Information

    In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

  5. 2025-08-28 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2775.) Ordered to the Senate.

  6. 2025-08-21 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

  7. 2025-08-20 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 20).

  8. 2025-07-17 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  9. 2025-06-19 California Legislative Information

    July 2 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.

  10. 2025-05-12 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on ED.

  11. 2025-04-24 California Legislative Information

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

  12. 2025-04-24 California Legislative Information

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 887.) Ordered to the Assembly.

  13. 2025-04-22 California Legislative Information

    Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

  14. 2025-04-21 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar.

  15. 2025-04-10 California Legislative Information

    Set for hearing April 21.

  16. 2025-04-09 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 735.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

  17. 2025-04-04 California Legislative Information

    Set for hearing April 9.

  18. 2025-04-02 California Legislative Information

    Re-referred to Com. on ED.

  19. 2025-03-20 California Legislative Information

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

  20. 2025-02-26 California Legislative Information

    Referred to Com. on RLS.

  21. 2025-02-14 California Legislative Information

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 16.

  22. 2025-02-13 California Legislative Information

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

Official Summary Text

SB 374, Archuleta.
Local educational agencies: annual reporting requirements: IDEA Addendum.
(1) Existing law requires the State Department of Education, on or before March 1, 2025, to provide a report to the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Governor, and the Legislature on the number and types of reports that school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools are required to annually submit. Existing law requires the report to include, among other things, the purpose of each report and recommendations for which reports can be consolidated, eliminated, or truncated, as provided. Existing law repeals these provisions on January 1, 2026.
This bill would extend the repeal date of the above-described
reporting requirements by one year, to instead be January 1, 2027.
(2) Existing law requires the State Board of Education to, on or before January 31, 2027, adopt an IDEA Addendum relating to improvements in services for individuals with exceptional needs, as specified. Existing law requires certain school districts, charter schools, and county offices of education identified by the department, as provided, to complete the IDEA Addendum and to undertake certain activities related to the addendum on or before July 1, 2027.
This bill would eliminate the above-described IDEA Addendum requirements.

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