AB 2206 California 20252026 session
Teacher credentialing: community college baccalaureate degrees: designated subjects career technical education teaching credential.
Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law prescribes specific minimum requirements a candidate must satisfy to be issued a teaching credential, certificate, or permit, including, among other requirements, possession of a baccalaureate degree from a regionally accredited institution of higher education, except as provided. Existing law authorizes the commission to approve a regionally accredited institution of higher education to recommend to the commission the issuance of credentials to persons who have successfully completed a teacher education program of the institution if the program meets the standards approved by the commission. Existing law defines a regionally accredited institution of higher education for these purposes to include, among other institutions, a community or junior college that confers baccalaureate degrees and is regionally accredited by specified accrediting entities, as provided. This bill would delete a community or junior college that confers baccalaureate degrees and is regionally accredited by specified accrediting entities from the definition of "regionally accredited." The bill would instead require a baccalaureate degree from an accredited community or junior college to include specific coursework in basic reading, writing, and mathematics skills in the English language, as provided, in order for that baccalaureate degree to satisfy the baccalaureate degree requirement for a teaching credential, certificate, or permit. This bill would establish the California Community College designated subjects career technical education credential pilot program. This bill would authorize the commission, from January 1, 2027, to January 1, 2033, inclusive, to approve a community college that offers a baccalaureate degree program, as specified, to recommend to the commission the issuance of a designated subjects career technical education credential in a subject aligned with the community colleges' approved baccalaureate degree major to persons who have successfully completed a program of personalized preparation for that credential if the preparation program meets commission-approved standards. This bill would require the commission to conduct an interim statewide evaluation of the programs of personalized preparation for designated subjects career technical education credentials at community colleges that are accredited by the commission, as provided. The bill would require the commission on or before January 1, 2032, to report the results of the interim statewide evaluation to the Legislature and the Governor.
Status
- Introduced
- Committee
- Floor vote
- Passed
- Enacted
Passed one chamber — last recorded action June 29, 2026
In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
Recorded votes
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
7 yes · 0 no · pass June 17, 2026
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
10 yes · 0 no · pass April 21, 2026
Passage likelihood
Not enough recorded signal to estimate this bill's chances.
State-level impact
State-level impact data is not available for this bill. The source text does not contain a per-state funding formula or scored breakdown, so no figures are shown.
Official actions
- In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
- From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
- From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED.
- Referred to Com. on ED.
- In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
- Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0.)
- Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
- From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 14).
- In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
- From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
- Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.
- Read second time and amended.
- From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 8).
- Re-referred to Com. on ED.
- From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended.
- Re-referred to Com. on ED.
- From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended.
- Referred to Coms. on ED. and HIGHER ED.
- From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- Read first time. To print.