AB 2008: Local educational agencies: planning and reporting requirements: template: repealer.
- Session Year: 2025-2026
- House: Assembly
- Latest Version Date: 2026-04-27
Current Status:
In Progress
(2026-06-03: Referred to Com. on ED.)
Introduced
In Committee
First Chamber
In Committee
Second Chamber
Enacted
Existing law establishes the State Department of Education under the administration of the Superintendent of Public Instruction and assigns to the department numerous responsibilities relating to the governance of the public elementary and secondary schools in the state.
This bill would require the department, on or before October 1, 2027, to release a standardized template for use by school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools when completing programmatic or expenditure reports. In drafting the template, the bill would require the department to consult relevant stakeholders involved in local educational agency reporting, as specified. The bill would also require the department, on or before October 1, 2027, to submit the template to the Legislature, as provided.
Existing law requires a bill that requires a state agency to submit a report on any subject to either house of the Legislature, a committee or office of either house of the Legislature, or the Legislative Counsel Bureau, to include a provision that repeals the reporting requirement, or makes the requirement inoperative, no later than a date 4 years following the operative date of the bill or 4 years after the due date of any report required every 4 or more years. Existing law requires the Legislative Counsel, in drafting a bill or amendment that includes a reporting requirement as described above, to include a provision repealing the reporting requirement or making the requirement inoperative, as specified, unless directed to do otherwise.
This bill would require require, beginning January 1, 2027, those same procedures for a bill that would require a school district, county office of education, or charter school to complete a plan or report with an undefined end date. The bill would provide that those procedures do not apply to routine reporting requirements, including, but not limited to, reporting requirements for the local control funding formula or the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System. require, beginning January 1, 2028, the Legislative Counsel, in drafting a bill or amendment that imposes a programmatic or expenditure reporting requirement on a local educational agency, as provided, to include a provision that requires the final programmatic or expenditure report be submitted using the template created by the department, as described above.
