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SCR-53 • 2026

High School Voter Education Weeks.

High School Voter Education Weeks.

Education Elections
Passed Legislature

This bill passed both chambers and reached final enrollment, even if later executive action is not shown here.

Sponsor
Pérez
Last action
2025-06-27
Official status
Ordered to inactive file on request of Senator Pérez.
Effective date
Not listed

Plain English Breakdown

The exact nature and extent of resources required by the resolution are not specified beyond being digital and physical.

High School Voter Education Weeks

This resolution declares April 14-25, 2025, as High School Voter Education Weeks and strongly encourages local schools to teach high school students about the electoral process during this time.

What This Bill Does

  • Declares Monday, April 14, 2025, through Friday, April 25, 2025, as High School Voter Education Weeks.
  • Strongly encourages local educational agencies to dedicate at least one week of these two weeks to educating pupils in grades 9 to 12 on the electoral process.
  • Encourages local educational agencies to provide digital and physical resources necessary for this instruction.
  • Encourages governing boards or bodies of local educational agencies to contract with third-party nonprofit organizations to accomplish this education.

Who It Names or Affects

  • Local educational agencies (schools).
  • High school students in grades 9 through 12.

Terms To Know

Electoral process
The system and steps used to elect government officials, including voting.
Local educational agencies
School districts or other local organizations that run schools.

Limits and Unknowns

  • Does not require schools to teach about the electoral process; it only strongly encourages them.
  • The resolution does not provide funding for these programs, so schools must find their own resources.
  • It is unclear if and how this will be enforced or tracked.

Bill History

  1. 2025-06-27 California Legislative Information

    Ordered to inactive file on request of Senator Pérez.

  2. 2025-04-09 California Legislative Information

    From committee: Ordered to third reading.

  3. 2025-03-28 California Legislative Information

    Introduced. Referred to Com. on RLS.

Official Summary Text

SCR 53, as introduced, Pérez.
High School Voter Education Weeks.
This measure would declare Monday, April 14, 2025, to Friday, April 25, 2025, inclusive, as High School Voter Education Weeks and would strongly encourage local educational agencies to dedicate at least one of those 2 weeks to educating pupils in grades 9 to 12, inclusive, on the electoral process, as provided. The measure would encourage local educational agencies to provide digital and physical resources necessary to provide this instruction and would encourage the governing boards or bodies of local educational agencies to contract with third-party nonprofit organizations, as provided, to accomplish this instruction.

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