California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California AB2440: Arts and Music in Schools—Funding Guarantee and Accountability Act: allowable uses: pooled funding: certifications.
Status: Chaptered, September 27, 2026
What the bill says
An act to amend Sections 8820, 8821, and 8822 of the Education Code, relating to pupil instruction. pupil instruction Arts and Music in Schools—Funding Guarantee and Accountability Act: allowable uses: pooled funding: certifications…
From the chaptered text, September 27, 2026:
An act to amend Sections 8820, 8821, and 8822 of the Education Code, relating to pupil instruction. pupil instruction Arts and Music in Schools—Funding Guarantee and Accountability Act: allowable uses: pooled funding: certifications. Existing law, the Arts and Music in Schools—Funding Guarantee and Accountability Act, an initiative measure approved by the voters as Proposition 28 at the November 8, 2022, statewide general election, provides a minimum source of annual funding to K–12 public schools, including public charter schools, to supplement arts education programs for pupils attending those schools, as specified. The act defines “arts education program” for these purposes to include, but not be limited to, instruction and training, supplies, materials, and arts educational partnership programs, for instruction in specified topics. The act requires the continuous appropriation for these purposes, without regard to fiscal years, from the General Fund to the State Department of Education, of an amount equal to 1% of the total state and local revenues received by local educational agencies in the preceding fiscal year that are included in the calculation of the minimum funding guarantee established by the California Constitution, as provided. The act requires funds appropriated pursuant to Proposition 28 to be allocated by the department to each local educational agency, and requires local educational agencies to allocate those funds to each schoolsite, pursuant to …
Sponsors
- Al Muratsuchi (D, AD66) · primary sponsor
- Ward, Christopher (D, AD78)
Latest actions
- : Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 606, Statutes of 2026.
- : Approved by the Governor.
- : Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- : Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 7008.).
- : Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0.).
- : Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling.
- : In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- : Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.).
- : Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
- : Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
Votes
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2440 Muratsuchi et al. By Allen (August 31, 2026): 39 yea, 0 nay, passed
- AB 2440 Muratsuchi Concurrence in Senate Amendments (August 31, 2026): 79 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Do pass as amended (August 13, 2026): 7 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Placed on suspense file (June 29, 2026): 7 yea, 0 nay, passed
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] (June 17, 2026): 6 yea, 0 nay, passed
- AB 2440 Muratsuchi Assembly Third Reading (May 21, 2026): 74 yea, 0 nay, passed
Common questions
- What is AB2440?
- AB2440 is a bill in the California Legislature (2025-2026 Regular Session): Arts and Music in Schools—Funding Guarantee and Accountability Act: allowable uses: pooled funding: certifications.
- What does AB2440 do?
- In its own words: An act to amend Sections 8820, 8821, and 8822 of the Education Code, relating to pupil instruction. pupil instruction Arts and Music in Schools—Funding Guarantee and Accountability Act: allowable uses: pooled funding: certifications…
- What is the status of AB2440?
- Chaptered as of September 27, 2026. Latest action: Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 606, Statutes of 2026. (September 27, 2026).
- Who sponsored AB2440?
- Al Muratsuchi (D, AD66), with 1 co-sponsor.
- Where is the official record for AB2440?
- On the California Legislature website: https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB2440
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