Guides: 2024 Reparations Priority Bill Package: New California Laws Taking Effect : AB-3131 Strong Workforce Program: applicants receiving equity multiplier funding.

Bill Summary and Finding Legislative History

AB-3131 Strong Workforce Program: applicants receiving equity multiplier funding.

SB-1089 was introduced in February 2024 by Assemblymember Kevin McCarty (D-Sacramento) and signed into law on September 22, 2024 as 2024 Cal. Stat. ch. 434. The act amends Section 88830 of the Education Code. You can find the bill text, bill analysis, and other documents relating to this law's legislative history on the California legislature's website.

See our California legislative history guide for information on how these documents all work together as persuasive legal authority in determining the intent behind the law as well as clarifying significant additions or deletions as the bill moved through the legislature.

AB-3131 Bill Summary (via Legislative Counsel's Digest)

Existing law, commencing with the 2023–24 fiscal year, appropriates $300,000,000 each fiscal year from the General Fund to the Superintendent of Public Instruction for allocation for the Local Control Funding Formula Equity Multiplier apportionment, as provided. Existing law requires the funding to be allocated to eligible local educational agencies that generate a specified local control funding formula entitlement based on, among other things, the percentage of unduplicated pupils served.
Existing law establishes the Strong Workforce Program to provide funding to career technical education regional consortia made up of community college districts and local educational agencies, as specified. Existing law also establishes a K–12 component of the Strong Workforce Program. Existing law provides that, commencing with the 2018–19 fiscal year, the amount appropriated in the annual Budget Act for the K–12 component of the program is used to create, support, or expand high-quality career technical education programs at the K–12 level that are aligned with the workforce development efforts occurring through the program.
Existing law requires each consortium to form a K–12 Selection Committee, as specified, for purposes of awarding grants under the K–12 component of the program and requires that applicants with certain characteristics be given positive consideration, as specified.

This bill would require positive consideration for purposes of awarding grants under the K–12 component of the program to also be given to applicants that serve pupils enrolled at local educational agencies receiving Local Control Funding Formula Equity Multiplier funding.

Note: AB 3131 was originally introduced as a bill meant to provide financial aid for students in historically redlined communities, but this specific language was removed in from the bill subsequent amendments prior to signing. See Assembly and Senate bill analyses and previous versions for more details and context.

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