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California 20252026

SB 1188

Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps: establishment and eligibility.

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Source: Open States / PluralUpdated 2026-09-12 13:12:55 UTC.

Official record

Measure details

Jurisdiction
California
Session
20252026
Chamber
upper
Classification
bill
Subjects
JuniorReserveOfficers'TrainingCorps, establishmentandeligibility
Introduced / first action
2026-02-19 00:00:00

Alternate titles

  • Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps: home instruction, independent study, and private schools.

Source-supplied abstracts

Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district maintaining a secondary school to establish in the school courses in military science and tactics that comply with provisions of federal law regarding Reserve Officers Training Corps units in educational institutions. This bill would revise and recast those provisions by authorizing the governing board or body of a school district, county office of education, or charter school to establish in its schoolsites courses in military science and tactics that comply with provisions of federal law regarding Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) units in educational institutions. Existing federal law requires a public secondary educational institution that maintains a JROTC unit to permit membership in the unit to homeschooled students residing in the area served by the institution who are qualified for membership in the unit but for lack of enrollment in the institution. This bill would require a local educational agency offering a JROTC program within any of its schools to permit membership in the JROTC program for homeschooled pupils who reside within the attendance area of the local educational agency, if those pupils meet all applicable eligibility requirements for participation in the JROTC program other than enrollment in the school offering the JROTC program. The bill would require the State Department of Education to make information about existing JROTC programs available on its internet website and distribute implementation guidance to local educational agencies on an annual basis.

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Source-supplied history

Actions

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 154, Statutes of 2026.

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  2. Approved by the Governor.

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  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.

    executive-receipt

  4. In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

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  5. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 6158.) Ordered to the Senate.

    passage, reading-1, reading-3

  6. Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.

    reading-1, reading-2

  7. From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 5).

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  8. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

    committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee

  9. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on M. & V.A. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on M. & V.A.

    committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee

  10. Referred to Coms. on ED. and M. & V.A.

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  11. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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  12. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4419.) Ordered to the Assembly.

    passage, reading-1, reading-3

  13. Ordered to special consent calendar.

  14. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

    reading-1, reading-2, reading-3

  15. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4268.) (May 14).

    committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable

  16. Set for hearing May 14.

  17. April 27 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  18. Set for hearing April 27.

  19. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 3956.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

    committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee

  20. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on M. & V.A.

    amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee

  21. From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on M. & V.A. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3791.) (April 8).

    amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee

  22. Set for hearing April 8.

  23. March 25 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.

  24. Set for hearing March 25.

  25. Referred to Coms. on ED. and M. & V.A.

    referral-committee

  26. From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.

  27. Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

    introduction, reading-1, referral-committee

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