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SB 1188STATE · CaliforniaIntroduced

Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps: establishment and eligibility.

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.

Voted 8/27/2026View source

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Docket history

Action history

  1. 7/1/2026From 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.
  2. 6/18/2026From 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.
  3. 6/1/2026Referred to Coms. on ED. and M. & V.A.
  4. 5/22/2026In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
  5. 5/22/2026Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4419.) Ordered to the Assembly.
  6. 5/20/2026Ordered to special consent calendar.
  7. 5/14/2026Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  8. 5/14/2026From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4268.) (May 14).
  9. 5/8/2026Set for hearing May 14.
  10. 4/27/2026April 27 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.