SB 549: Heritage schools: enrollment and notice.

Session Year: 2025-2026
House: Senate
Latest Version Date: 2026-06-11

Current Status:

In Progress

(2026-06-11: From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.)

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In Committee

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Under existing law, a heritage school is a school that, among other things, offers world language education or tutoring and cultural education relating to a country other than the United States to children who are at least 4 years and 9 months of age and no older than 18 years of age and who attend a public or private full-time day school. Existing law exempts a heritage school from licensure by the State Department of Social Services as a child day care center, as specified.

This bill would expand the definition of heritage school to also include a school that provides services to children younger than 4 years and 9 months of age who are enrolled in kindergarten, including transitional kindergarten, or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive.

Existing law requires a heritage school, upon a pupils enrollment in a heritage school, to provide a notice to the pupils parent or guardian stating that the heritage school is exempt from childcare licensure and that attendance at a heritage school does not satisfy Californias compulsory education.

This bill would require a heritage school, upon a pupils enrollment in a heritage school, to also provide notice that the State Department of Education has no regulatory authority over heritage schools and does not monitor heritage school operations or instruction.

(1)Existing law authorizes the legislative body of a city or a county, defined to include a city and county, to establish an enhanced infrastructure financing district to finance public capital facilities or other specified projects of communitywide significance, as provided. Existing law provides for the preparation of a proposed infrastructure financing plan, as provided, which takes effect upon adoption by the public financing authority of the district following a specified public hearing and protest procedure. Existing law authorizes the infrastructure financing plan to provide for the division of taxes levied on taxable property in the area included within the district, as specified, and authorizes the public financing authority to issue bonds by adopting a resolution containing specified provisions, including a determination of the amount of tax revenue available or estimated to be available for the payment of the principal of, and interest on, the bonds.Existing law, the Second Neighborhood Infill Finance and Transit Improvements Act, or NIFTI-2, authorizes a city, county, or city and county to adopt a resolution, at any time before or after the adoption of the infrastructure financing plan for an enhanced infrastructure financing district, to allocate tax revenues of that entity to the district, including revenues derived from local sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law or transactions and use taxes imposed in accordance with the Transactions and Use Tax Law, if certain conditions are met, including that the boundaries of the enhanced infrastructure financing district are coterminous with the city or county that established the district. This bill would revise NIFTI-2 to instead authorize, for resolutions adopted under that acts provisions on or after January 1, 2026, a city, county, or city and county to adopt a resolution, at any time before or after the adoption of the infrastructure financing plan for an enhanced infrastructure financing district, to allocate property tax revenues, and to remove the authorization for adoption of a resolution that allocates revenues derived from local sales and use taxes imposed pursuant to the Bradley-Burns Uniform Local Sales and Use Tax Law or transactions and use taxes. The bill would also repeal the condition that the boundaries of the enhanced infrastructure financing district are coterminous with the city or county that established the district.(2)Existing law authorizes certain local agencies to establish or form various planning and land use authorities for specified purposes, including, among others, infrastructure, affordable housing, and economic revitalization.This bill would authorize the County of Los Angeles to establish a Resilient Rebuilding Authority for the Los Angeles Wildfires to coordinate, accelerate, and streamline recovery in jurisdictions impacted by the January 2025 wildfires, and would authorize the county to empower the authority to engage in specified acts in order to support the rebuilding and protection of homes, businesses, utilities, and other public infrastructure, as provided.This bill would make legislative findings and declarations as to the necessity of a special statute for the County of Los Angeles.

Discussed in Hearing