Bill Text: CA AB2008 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session | Amended
Bill Title: Local educational agencies: planning and reporting requirements: template: repealer.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: (Engrossed) 2026-06-18 - Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. [AB2008 Detail]
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CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION
Assembly Bill
No. 2008
| Introduced by Assembly Member Patel |
February 17, 2026 |
An act to add Section 33318.6 to the Education Code, and to add Sections 10231.6 and 10231.7 to the Government Code, relating to reporting.
LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2008, as amended, Patel.
Local educational agencies: planning and reporting requirements: template: repealer.
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 create and post to its internet website a standardized template, as specified, for use by school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools when completing programmatic or expenditure reports for competitive state grant programs, except as provided. In drafting the template, the bill would require the department to ensure that the template creates reporting efficiencies for local educational agencies and schools that receive state grants and to consult relevant stakeholders involved in
local educational agency reporting, as specified. The bill would require the department, on or before October 1, 2027, to submit the template to the Legislature, as provided, and, commencing January 1, 2028, to issue the template to local educational agencies as part of the notice of award information, and again 6 months before the final report due date, and to prepopulate certain administrative information of those local educational agencies.
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, bill, beginning January 1, 2027, those same procedures for would (1) require 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.
to include a provision that repeals the planning or reporting requirement, or makes the requirement inoperative, no later than 4 years following the bill’s operative date if the planning or reporting requirement has an undefined end date, or 4 years after the final due date of any plan or report and (2) require the Legislative Counsel to include a provision in that bill repealing the planning or reporting requirement or making the requirement inoperative, as specified, unless directed to do otherwise. The bill would require, beginning January 1, 2028, the Legislative Counsel, in drafting a bill or amendment that imposes a new programmatic or expenditure reporting requirement for competitive state grant programs on a local educational agency, except 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, unless directed to do otherwise.
Digest Key
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The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 33318.6 is added to the Education Code, to read:33318.6.
(a) On or before October 1, 2027, the department shall create and post to its internet website a standardized template for use by local educational agencies when completing programmatic or expenditure reports for competitive state grant programs, except for grants for technical assistance providers.(b) (1) In drafting the template pursuant to subdivision (a), the department shall ensure that the template creates reporting efficiencies for local educational agencies and schools that receive state grants. The department shall consult relevant stakeholders involved in local educational agency reporting, including, but not limited to, local
educational agency administrators, governing board or body members, and school business officials from small-, medium-, and large-sized local educational agencies, and the department shall ensure stakeholders represent the demographic and geographic diversity of the state.
(2) The consultation shall include solicitation of initial input about the creation of the standardized grant reporting template and opportunities for input on drafts of the template before it is finalized.
(c) The template drafted pursuant to subdivision (a) shall include the minimum information necessary to ascertain all of the following:
(1) Administrative information, which shall include, but not be limited to, the local educational agency and
their contact information, the grant number, and reporting period.
(2) Programmatic outcomes, which shall include, but not be limited to, the initial goals of the program, implementation status, key performance indicators, key successes, key challenges, and how the program funding has served unduplicated pupils, as applicable.
(3) Expenditure outcomes, which shall include, but not be limited to, the initial award amount, the amount spent in the reporting period, and itemized expenditures, including their approved budget, actual expenditures, and variance.
(4) The anticipated future of the funded activity. This may include, as applicable, whether the services provided by the grant will be maintained after
the funding period ends, including any equipment or assets purchased with the funds.
(5) Additional information if required by statute.
(d) The department shall identify which information is already reported to the department by local educational agencies in order to avoid reporting duplication. The department shall ensure that grant reporting requirements do not exceed statutory or regulatory requirements.
(e) (1) On or before October 1, 2027, the department shall submit the template and a report to the Legislature, consistent with Section 9795 of the Government Code, that (A) details the stakeholder engagement that occurred when designing the template, (B) provides recommendations for how the
template is to be used going forward, and (C) provides any additional information.
(2) The requirement for submitting the report under this subdivision shall be inoperative on October 1, 2031, pursuant to Section 10231.5 of the Government Code.
(f) Commencing January 1, 2028, the department shall issue the final programmatic or expenditure report template to local educational agencies as part of the notice of award information, and again six months before the final report due date. The department shall prepopulate the relevant administrative information described in paragraph (1) of subdivision (c).
(g) For purposes of this section, “local educational agency” means a school district, county office of education, or charter school.
SEC. 2.
Section 10231.6 is added to the Government Code, to read:10231.6.
(a) Beginning January 1, 2028, a bill that, as introduced or amended in either house of the Legislature, would require a local educational agency to complete a new programmatic or expenditure report for competitive state grant programs, except for grants for technical assistance providers, shall include a provision that requires the final programmatic or expenditure report to be submitted using the template described in Section 33318.6 of the Education Code.(b) Beginning January 1, 2028, the Legislative Counsel, in drafting a bill for introduction or an amendment to a bill that would impose a programmatic or expenditure reporting requirement on a local
educational agency described in subdivision (a), shall include a provision that requires the final programmatic or expenditure report to be submitted using the template described in Section 33318.6 of the Education Code, unless the person requesting the bill or amendment directs the Legislative Counsel to do otherwise.
(c) For purposes of this section, “local educational agency” means a school district, county office of education, or charter school.
SEC. 3.
Section 10231.7 is added to the Government Code, to read:10231.7.
(a) (1) Beginning January 1, 2027, a bill that, as introduced or amended in either house of the Legislature, would require a local educational agency to complete a plan or report(2) For purposes of this section, “local educational agency” means a school district, county office of education, or charter school.
(b) Beginning January 1, 2027, the Legislative Counsel, in drafting a bill for
introduction or an amendment to a bill that would impose a planning or reporting requirement described in subdivision (a), shall include a provision that repeals the requirement, or makes the planning or reporting requirement inoperative, four years after the date on which the requirement becomes operative, consistent with the requirements of subdivision (a), unless the person requesting the bill or amendment directs the Legislative Counsel to do otherwise.
