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November News

October News

• New Laws for California Schools: AB 1666, 2020 Census (10/25/19)
• New Laws for California Schools: SB 223, medical cannabis (10/18/19)
• Download 'What's New for 2020' report on new laws (10/16/19)
• 2019 bills vetoed by Gov. Newsom (10/16/19)
• Gov. Newsom signs school start time bill (10/14/19)
• Power outage info for California schools (10/10/19)
• Legislative Update: Charter school bills signed (10/9/19)

September News

• Letter to CSU Board of Trustees: Admission eligibility expansion
• What's on the Governor's desk? (9/18/19)
• Start time bill heads to Gov. Newsome's desk; other legislative updates. (9/14/19)
• AB 48 school facilities bond amended, would add $9 billion for K-12 facilities (9/11/19) | AB 48 author's fact sheet 
• AB 1505 passes Legislature, sent to Gov. Newsom (9/11/19)
• Details emerging on AB 1505, charter schools (9/4/19)
• Legislative update: Updates on school bond, ethnic studies and other bills (9/4/19)

August News

• Results of Senate and Assembly suspense hearings (8/30/19) | School start time bill advances
• Legislative agreement reached on charter schools bill, details still being worked out (8/29/19)
• Assembly District 1 race heads to runoff (8/28/19)
• New Laws for California Schools: AB 272, student smartphone use (8/7/19)

July News

• CSBA/ACSA introduce federal IDEA funding bill (7/31/19)
• School start time, charter bills advance on deadline day (7/10/19)
• Education Legal Alliance restores California public school funds to state budget (7/3/19)
• A look inside the 2019-20 budget (7/2/19)

June News

• Updated CalPERS rates for 2019-20, projections for future years (6/20/19)
• 2020/22 school facilities bond, Pathways to College Act, other bills advancing (6/19/19)
• Update on student smartphones bill; AB 39, AB 428 unanimously pass Senate Ed. (6/12/19)
• Conference Committee wraps 2019-20 state budget (6/10/19)
• Update on CSBA cosponsored bills, charter legislation (6/5/19)
• Policy committee hearings resuming; vacant seats filled in Senate Districts 1 and 33 (6/5/19)

May News

• 2019-20 budget heads to Conference Committee (5/30/19)
• Legislative Update: CSBA cosponsored bills, charter legislation on the move (5/22/19)
• Results of Senate and Assembly suspense hearings (5/16/19)

April News

• New CSBA positions on 2019 legislation (4/12/19)

March News

• More than 260 attend 2019 Legislative Action Day (3/13/19)
• Charter school transparency measure signed by Gov. Newsom (3/6/19)
• New CSBA positions on 2019 legislation (3/1/19)

February News

• LAO predicts potentially lower Prop 98 guarantee for May (2/14/19)

January News

• Newsom's CSBA shout-out, and a closer look at the $3 billion CalSTRS proposal (1/14/19)
• Gov. Newsom's first budget adds $3 billion for CalSTRS, increases COLA (1/10/19) | Statement from CSBA President Dr. Emma Turner

December 2018 News

• LCFF base grant bill, other measures introduced on first day of 2019-20 session (12/5/18)
• 2019-20 LAO Fiscal Outlook | Prop. 98 Outlook