CA AB 1034

Title: Teacher credentialing: programs of professional preparation: youth mental health.
Author: AnaMarie Avila Farias

Summary
AB 1034, as amended, Ávila Farías. Teacher credentialing: programs of professional preparation: youth mental health. Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials. Existing law requires the commission to ensure that an accredited program of professional preparation for multiple subject, single subject, or education specialist teaching credentials includes, among other things, standards established by the commission for the preparation of teachers for all pupils, as provided.This bill would require, when the above-described standards are next revised on or after January 1, 2026, the commission to include a requirement that beginning teachers have a basic understanding of youth mental health.Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials. Existing law requires, as a minimum requirement for a preliminary multiple subject, single subject, or education specialist teaching credential, the satisfactory completion of a program of professional preparation that, among other things, has been accredited by the Committee on Accreditation on the basis of standards of program quality and effectiveness that have been adopted by the commission and provides specified experience including, among other experience health education, including study of nutrition, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, and the physiological and sociological effects of the abuse of alcohol, narcotics, and drugs and the use of tobacco.This bill would require that health education experience to also include a basic understanding of youth mental health.

Status
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

Bill Documents
CA AB 1034 - 04/21/25 - Amended Assembly
04/21/25 - CA AB 1034 (04/21/25 - Amended Assembly)