California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California AB1590: California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program: revised allocation formula.
Status: Chaptered, September 27, 2026
What the bill says
An act to amend Section 53076 of the Education Code, relating to career technical education. career technical education California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program: revised allocation formula. Existing law establishes the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program, administered by the State Department of Education, with the purpose of encouraging, maintaining, and strengthening the delivery of high-quality career technical education programs…
From the chaptered text, September 27, 2026:
An act to amend Section 53076 of the Education Code, relating to career technical education. career technical education California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program: revised allocation formula. Existing law establishes the California Career Technical Education Incentive Grant Program, administered by the State Department of Education, with the purpose of encouraging, maintaining, and strengthening the delivery of high-quality career technical education programs. Existing law provides, for the 2021–22 fiscal year and each fiscal year thereafter, that $300,000,000 shall be available to the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, for the program. Existing law requires an applicant to demonstrate a proportional dollar-for-dollar match and sets that amount for the 2021–22 fiscal year, and each fiscal year thereafter, at $2 for every $1 received from the program. Existing law prohibits an applicant from being awarded an amount higher than the amount that the allocation formula determines them to be eligible to receive under the program. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in administering the program, to perform specified duties, including, among other duties, to (1) determine, in collaboration with the executive director of the State Board of Education, and make public on a preliminary basis at least 30 days before a regularly scheduled meeting of the state board, the allocation formula, (2) distribute funding on a multiyear schedule, (3) require …