AB2430 - Expanded learning programs: high school pupils: After School Education and Safety Program Act of 2002.

Amended IN Assembly April 21, 2026 Amended IN Assembly April 06, 2026 Amended IN Assembly March 19, 2026 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION Assembly Bill No. 2430 Introduced by Assembly Member Muratsuchi (Coauthor: Assembly Member Bonta) February 20, 2026 An act to amend Sections 8422, 8428, 8482.55, and 46120 of, and to add Section 46121 to, the Education Code, and to amend Section 10224 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to after school programs. programs, and making an appropriation therefor. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST AB 2430, as amended, Muratsuchi. Expanded learning programs: high school pupils: After School Education and Safety Program Act of 2002. The After School Education and Safety Program Act of 2002, an initiative statute approved by the voters as Proposition 49 at the November 5, 2002, statewide general election, establishes the After School Education and Safety (ASES) Program under which participating public schools receive grants to operate before and after school programs serving pupils in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 9, inclusive. The act requires an amount not to exceed $550,000,000 to be continuously appropriated to the State Department of Education from the General Fund in each fiscal year for purposes of the program, and requires the amount to be allocated to public elementary, middle, and junior high schools according to a specified priority scheme, as provided. The act authorizes the Legislature to appropriate funds for the program in excess of this continuous appropriation. The act makes each public elementary, middle, and junior high school in the state eligible to receive a 3-year renewable after school grant for after school programs to be operated during the regular school year, as provided. The act authorizes the Legislature to amend the provisions containing the priority scheme only by a statute, enacted by a 2/3 vote of each house and signed by the Governor, that furthers the purposes of the act. Existing law establishes the 21st Century High School After School Safety and Enrichment for Teens (High School ASSETs) program to create incentives for establishing after school enrichment programs to provide academic support and safe, constructive alternatives for high school pupils in the hours after the regular schoolday and to support college and career readiness. Under existing law, a High School ASSETs program is authorized to operate as either (1) an after school only program or (2) a program with both after school elements and any combination of before school, weekend, summer, intersession, or vacation elements. This bill would, notwithstanding the above-described ASES priority scheme and commencing with the 2027–28 fiscal year, prohibit the department from renewing any ASES grant to a school in which less than 55% of the enrolled pupils are eligible for free or reduced-price meals, as provided. This bill would establish the High School After School Education and Safety Grant Program as a component of the ASES Program. The bill would require program grantees to comply with the rules and requirements governing the High School ASSETs program, operate for up to 210 days per program year, program and provide a daily funding rate of $16 $13.81 per pupil. The bill would, commencing with the 2027–28 fiscal year January 1, 2027, and annually thereafter, and notwithstanding any other law, including the above-described priority scheme, require ASES Program appropriations in excess of the minimum requirement that have not been otherwise awarded, as provided, to be allocated to the department for expenditure consistent with the High School After School Education and Safety Grant Program. The bill would also require the department to annually allocate funds generated pursuant to the above-described nonrenewal of ASES grants for expenditure consistent with the High School After School Education and Safety Grant Program. By authorizing the expenditure of continuously appropriated funds for a new purpose, the bill would make an appropriation. The bill would require the department to allocate these funds pursuant to a specified hierarchy, with first priority given to existing High School ASSETs grantees to fund an increase in their per pupil daily rate to $16 and to expand the number of program offering days to up to 210 days, $13.81 and second priority given to fund new high school programs that comply with the grant requirements, as provided. The bill would require the department to ensure, for existing ASES Program grantees applying for a renewal of grant funds, that any funding reductions or eliminations as a result of the allocation for the High School After School Education and Safety Grant Program are distributed proportionally within each annual cycle of grantees, as provided. The bill would include a legislative finding and declaration that the bill furthers the purposes of the After School Education and Safety Program Act of 2002. This bill would, for the purposes of attendance tracking for the High School ASSETs program, authorize pupils to be counted as attending twice if they participated in both an after school element and a before school element of a High School ASSETs program. Existing law establishes the Expanded Learning Opportunities Program and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to allocate funding appropriated in the annual Budget Act to local educational agencies pursuant to specified rules based on those local educational agencies’ percentage of unduplicated pupils, as defined, and average daily attendance of pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 6, inclusive, as provided. Existing law requires local educational agencies to annually declare their operational intent to the department to run an expanded learning opportunity program. This bill would, commencing with the 2027–28 fiscal year, and annually thereafter, require a local educational agency, before opting out of expanded learning opportunity program funding and programming for the year, to share with the department how the local educational agency meaningfully engaged and notified those families and pupils that would have otherwise received expanded learning opportunity program priority. To the extent this requirement imposes new duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The bill would, commencing with the 2027–28 fiscal year and annually thereafter, require the department to publicly post on its internet website the list of local educational agencies that intend to not offer expanded learning opportunity programs. This bill, commencing with the 2026–27 fiscal year, would require the department or a local educational agency designated by the department to convene a stakeholder workgroup with specified representatives to provide recommendations related to providing quality care to transitional kindergarten and kindergarten pupils, as provided, and submit a report to be posted on the department’s internet website on the full cost of providing accessible and quality expanded learning programs. Existing law requires the department to develop and submit a biennial report to the Legislature related to the pupils attending, and the program quality of, expanded learning programs. This bill would revise and recast these provisions by requiring the department to develop and submit an annual report to the Legislature related to the pupils attending expanded learning programs, including High School ASSETs programs, ASES programs, 21st Century Community Learning Centers, and expanded learning opportunities programs. The bill would require the report to include, among other things, data derived from the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS) and aggregate reporting on specified pupil information. The bill would require the department to make the data collected in CALPADS available and accessible to the public, at the local educational agency level, and would require the department to develop summaries of the annual report for policymakers and the public. Existing law, the Child Care and Development Services Act, administered by the State Department of Social Services, establishes a system of childcare and development services for children up to 13 years of age. Existing law establishes childcare resource and referral programs to serve a defined geographic area and provide prescribed services. Among the services provided by these programs is the establishment of a referral process that responds to parental need for information and that makes referrals to licensed child daycare facilities, as specified. Existing law requires, when making referrals, every agency operating both a direct service program and a resource and referral program to provide at least 4 referrals, at least one of which shall be a provider over which the agency has no fiscal or operational control, and information to a family on the family’s ability to choose a license exempt provider. This bill would require every resource and referral program to provide information about expanded learning opportunities programs in its region, as provided. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above. Digest Key Vote: 2/3 Appropriation: NO YES Fiscal Committee: YES Local Program: YES Bill Text The people of the State of California do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 8422 of the Education Code is amended to read: 8422. (a) Priority for funding pursuant to this article shall be given to programs that previously received funding pursuant to Section 8421, for expansion of existing grants up to the per site maximum established under paragraph (1) of subdivision (a) of Section 8426, or to replace expiring grants that have satisfactorily met their projected attendance goals. (b) A program established pursuant to this article shall be planned through a collaborative process that includes parents, pupils, representatives of participating schools, governmental agencies, including city and county parks and recreation departments, community organizations, law enforcement, and, if appropriate, the private sector. (c) Every pupil attending a school operating a program pursuant to this article is eligible to participate in the program, subject to program capacity. A program established pursuant to this article may charge family fees. Programs that charge family fees shall waive or reduce the cost of these fees for pupils who are eligible for free or reduced-price meals. (d) A program established pursuant to this article shall have the option of operating under either of the following modes: (1) After school only. (2) (A) After school and during any combination of before school, weekends, summer, intersession, and vacation. (B) For purposes of attendance tracking, pupils may be counted as attending twice if they participated in both an after school element and a before school element of a program described in subparagraph (A), if consistent with federal law. SEC. 2. Section 8428 of the Education Code is amended to read: 8428. (a) The department shall develop, and submit in compliance with Section 9795 of the Government Code, an annual report to the Legislature related to the pupils attending expanded learning programs, including 21st Century High School After School Safety and Enrichment for Teens (High School ASSETs) programs established pursuant to this article, After School Education and Safety programs established pursuant to Article 22.5 (commencing with Section 8482), 21st Century Community Learning Centers programs established pursuant to Article 22.6 (commencing with Section 8484.7), and expanded learning opportunities programs established pursuant to Section 46120. (1) The report shall include data that is derived from the California Longitudinal Pupil Achievement Data System (CALPADS) developed pursuant to Section 60900 by matching the unique statewide pupil identifiers with data in the department’s data systems. The report shall also include, but not be limited to, aggregate reporting of all of the following information: (A) The distribution of enrolled pupils across local educational agencies. (B) Pupil expanded learning program participation and schoolday attendance, and rates of chronic absenteeism. (C) Pupil achievement as measured by standardized statewide testing. (D) Pupil demographics and characteristics, including, but not limited to, aggregated information about pupil groups related to eligibility for free or reduced-price meals, multilingual learners, pupils in the foster system, pupils experiencing homelessness, and age, race, and ethnicity. (E) Pupil suspension and expulsion data. (F) Commencing with the 2027–28 school year, comparative metrics of the data reported pursuant to subparagraphs (A) to (E), inclusive, over time. (2) The department shall make the data collected in CALPADS reported pursuant to paragraph (1) available and accessible to the public, at the local educational agency level. (3) The department may include any of the following in the annual report: (A) The quality of the programs, based on the department’s guidance on program quality standards developed pursuant to paragraph (3) of subdivision (a) of Section 8427. (B) Additional data points as established by the department’s Expanded Learning Research and Evaluation Strategy Committee of stakeholders. (b) The department shall develop and deliver timely, user-friendly, and succinct summaries of the report developed pursuant to subdivision (a), including CALPADS data, for policymakers and the public. SEC. 3. Section 8482.55 of the Education Code is amended to read: 8482.55. (a) To accomplish the purposes of the After School Education and Safety Program, commencing with the fiscal year beginning July 1, 2004, and for each fiscal year thereafter, all grants made pursuant to this article shall be awarded as set forth in this section. (b) (1) Grants made to public schools pursuant to this article for the 2005–06 fiscal year shall continue to be funded in each subsequent fiscal year at the 2005–06 fiscal year level, after the adjustments provided in paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 8483.7 and paragraphs (1) and (2) of subdivision (a) of Section 8483.75 have been made, before any other grants are funded under this article, provided those schools continue to apply for the grants and are otherwise qualified pursuant to this article. Receipt of a grant at the 2005–06 fiscal year level made pursuant to this subdivision shall not affect a school’s eligibility for additional grant funding [Text truncated for display. 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