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Education Committee, California State Assembly
The Education Committee is a standing committee of the California State Assembly.
Per the Assembly Rules, committees of the California State Assembly are assigned by the House Speaker. The Speaker has the power to appoint the chair and vice chair of each committee.[1] The Speaker is considered an ex officio member of all assembly committees of which he or she is not a regular member but does not have voting rights and is not counted for purposes of determining a quorum.[2] A majority of members of a committee constitutes a quorum.[3]
See rules: Standing Rules of the Assembly
Function
The duty of the Education Committee is to investigate and study proposed bills relating to K-12 education generally, certificated employees of schools, school finance, and school facilities.[4]
Membership
2025-2026 legislative session
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Education Committee, 2025-2026 |
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| Democratic members (7) | Republican members (2) | Third-party members(0) |
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2023-2024 legislative session
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Education Committee, 2023-2024 |
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| Democratic members (5) | Republican members (2) | Third-party members(0) |
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2021-2022 legislative session
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Education Committee, 2021-2022 |
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| Democratic members (5) | Republican members (2) | Third-party members(0) |
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2019-2020 legislative session
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Education Committee, 2019-2020 |
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| Democratic members (4) | Republican members (1) | Third-party members(0) |
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Shirley Weber (D) left this committee on January 29, 2021.
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2017 legislative session
The following table describes committee membership at the beginning of the 2017 legislative session.
| Education Members, 2017 | ||||
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| Democratic members (5) | Republican members (2) | |||
| • Patrick O'Donnell, Chair | • Rocky Chavez, Vice chair | |||
| • Todd Gloria | • Kevin Kiley | |||
| • Kevin McCarty | ||||
| • Tony Thurmond | ||||
| • Shirley Weber | ||||
2015 legislative session
The following table describes committee membership at the beginning of the 2015 legislative session.
| Education Members, 2015 | ||||
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| Democratic members (5) | Republican members (2) | |||
| • Patrick O'Donnell, Chair | • Rocky Chavez, Vice chair | |||
| • Kevin McCarty (California) | • Young Kim | |||
| • Miguel Santiago (California) | ||||
| • Tony Thurmond | ||||
| • Shirley Weber | ||||
2013-2014
The following table describes committee membership at the beginning of the 2013 legislative session.
| Education Members, 2013 | ||||
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| Democratic members (5) | Republican members (2) | |||
| • Joan Buchanan, Chair | • Kristin Olsen, Vice chair | |||
| • Nora Campos | • Rocky Chavez | |||
| • Adrin Nazarian | ||||
| • Shirley Weber | ||||
| • Das Williams | ||||
2011-2012
The following table describes committee membership for the 2011 legislative session.
| Education Members, 2011 | ||||
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| Democratic members (7) | Republican members (4) | |||
| • Julia Brownley, Chair | • Chris Norby, Vice chair | |||
| • Tom Ammiano | • Jeff Gorell | |||
| • Joan Buchanan | • Linda Halderman | |||
| • Betsy Butler | • Donald P. Wagner | |||
| • Wilmer Carter | ||||
| • Mike Eng | ||||
| • Das Williams | ||||
External links
- ↑ California Legislature—2021-2022 Regular Session, “Relative to the Standing Rules of the Assembly for the 2021–22 Regular Session,” accessed February 19, 2021 (Rule 26-A-6)
- ↑ California Legislature—2021-2022 Regular Session, “Relative to the Standing Rules of the Assembly for the 2021–22 Regular Session,” accessed February 19, 2021 (Rule 26-B)
- ↑ California Legislature—2021-2022 Regular Session, “Relative to the Standing Rules of the Assembly for the 2021–22 Regular Session,” accessed February 19, 2021 (Rule 57)
- ↑ California State Assembly, "Welcome to the Committee on Education," accessed February 25, 2021
