Bill Text: CA AB2148 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Elementary and secondary education: public school employees: contractors: natural persons.
Sponsorship: Bipartisan Bill
Status: (Passed) 2026-06-30 - Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 45, Statutes of 2026. [AB2148 Detail]
Download: California-2025-AB2148-Chaptered.html
Assembly Bill
No. 2148
CHAPTER 45
An act to add Section 98 to the Education Code, relating to elementary and secondary education.
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Approved by
Governor
June 30, 2026.
Filed with
Secretary of State
June 30, 2026.
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LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
AB 2148, Muratsuchi.
Elementary and secondary education: public school employees: contractors: natural persons.
Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary education in this state. Under this system, school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools employ personnel to provide instruction to and services for pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, at schoolsites throughout the state.
This bill would explicitly define, for purposes of the Education Code, both a public school employee and a contractor providing services in a public school to mean a natural person.
Digest Key
Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NOBill Text
The people of the State of California do enact as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 98 is added to the Education Code, immediately following Section 97, to read:98.
Both of the following mean a natural person:(a) A public school employee, including, but not limited to, certificated employees, classified employees, teachers, educators, short-term employees, principals, administrators, counselors, school nurses, school psychologists, and school social workers.
(b) A contractor performing services in a public school.
