CaliforniaChildcare: facility licensure: teacher requirements.
What it does
Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, requires the department to administer childcare and development programs that offer a full range of services to eligible children from infancy to 13 years of age, inclusive.
More detail
Existing law, the Early Education Act, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide an inclusive and cost-effective preschool program.
Those acts authorize a person to serve in an instructional capacity in a childcare and development program or a preschool program if they possess a current credential issued by the Commission on Teacher Credentialing authorizing teaching service in elementary school or a single-subject credential in home economics, and 12 units in early childhood education or child development, or both, or 2 years' experience in early childhood education or a childcare and development program.
This bill would, notwithstanding these provisions, authorize the commission to issue an assistant teacher permit that authorizes the permitholder to assist in the care, development, and instruction of children, subject to specified supervision requirements. The bill would require the applicant to meet specified requirements, including, among others, having at least 6 units from an accredited institution of higher education in early childhood education, child development, or human development, or a combination thereof. The bill would require a contracting agency that employs a person who holds an assistant teacher permit to maintain a copy of the permitholder's education plan in their employee file. The bill would prohibit the number of assistant teacher permitholders employed by a contracting agency at one site from exceeding 50% of the number of classrooms at that site. The bill would prohibit a contracting agency from assigning more than one assistant teacher to each classroom. The bill would make these permits valid for no more than 2 years and would prohibit their renewal. The bill would require the commission to implement these provisions by no later than January 30, 2026.
This bill would make these provisions inoperative one year after the implementation of the commission's revised child development permit matrix, or January 1, 2029, whichever is later, and would repeal these provisions as of that date.
The bill would authorize the Superintendent of Public Instruction and the Director of Social Services, respectively, to require a contracting agency that employs a person who holds an assistant teacher permit to provide data on the number of employees who have been issued an assistant teacher permit pursuant to the above-described provisions, or who qualified for waivers, as specified. The bill would authorize the collection of this data by survey or by another collection method and require the data be provided as part the contracting agency's annual plan for its program self-evaluation process, or as part of an existing reporting process, as specified. The bill would also make certain findings and declarations.
This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
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History
- 2025
- Oct 1Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 165, Statutes of 2025.Latest
- Oct 1Approved by the Governor Gavin Newsom.Became Law
- Sep 22Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.To Governor
- Sep 11
- Vote recorded AB 753 Garcia Concurrence - Urgency Added. Result: pass.Lower
- Sep 10Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3201.).Major
- Sep 9In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- Vote recorded 3rd Reading AB753 Garcia By Reyes Urgency Clause. Result: pass.Upper
- Sep 9Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2730.).Passed Senate
- Sep 8Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Sep 5Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.Major
- Sep 3Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Sep 3From special consent calendar.
- Sep 2Ordered to special consent calendar.
- Aug 29Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Upper
- Aug 29From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29).Minor
- Aug 25In committee: Referred to suspense file.Minor
- Vote recorded Placed on suspense file. Result: pass.Upper
- Aug 19From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR.Major
- Aug 7In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- Jul 8From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Jul 7
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 18From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HUMAN S. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on HUMAN S.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Human Services]. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 4Referred to Coms. on ED. and HUMAN S.Minor
- May 23In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.Minor
- Vote recorded AB 753 Garcia Consent Calendar Second Day. Result: pass.Lower
- May 23Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 1662.)Passed Assembly
- May 15Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.Minor
- May 14From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14).Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. To Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Lower
- May 1From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Apr 30
- Vote recorded Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 21Re-referred to Com. on ED.Minor
- Apr 10Read second time and amended.Major
- Apr 9From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 8).Major
- Apr 8
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Education]. Result: pass.Lower
- Mar 28Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S.Minor
- Mar 27From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended.Major
- Mar 17Referred to Coms. on HUM. S. and ED.Minor
- Feb 19From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- Feb 18Read first time. To print.Introduced