California Assembly Bill AB912

California 2025-2026 Regular Session

• Introduced: 2/19/25
• Refer: 3/28/25
• Report Pass: 3/28/25
• Refer: 4/1/25
• Report Pass: 4/23/25
• Refer: 4/23/25
• Refer: 4/30/25
• Report Pass: 5/23/25
• Engrossed: 6/3/25
• Refer: 6/4/25
• Refer: 6/18/25

Caption

An act to amend Sections 3 and 6 of the Vallejo Flood and Wastewater District Act (Chapter 17 of the First Extraordinary Session of the Statutes of 1952), relating to the Vallejo Flood and Wastewater District, and declaring the urgency thereof, to take effect immediately. District.

Summary

AB 912 would require the California Department of Human Resources, working with the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation and several other state agencies, to create a pilot civil service apprenticeship program by July 1, 2026. The program would be for people with disabilities and would prepare participants to become civil service environmental service technicians at correctional facilities operated by CDCR. The bill’s findings emphasize the size of California’s disabled population, the higher unemployment rate among people with disabilities, and the state’s interest in expanding equitable employment opportunities. The bill also amends Labor Code Section 6304.3 governing correctional industry safety committees. Those changes are described in the digest as nonsubstantive, meaning the bill does not appear to materially alter the existing framework for correctional industry safety committees, complaint handling, or Division of Occupational Safety and Health oversight. The operative policy change is the new apprenticeship pilot in the Government Code.

Impact

AB 912 would add a new Government Code section directing CalHR and partner agencies to establish and administer a pilot apprenticeship pathway for people with disabilities into state civil service jobs at correctional facilities. It would affect state employment and workforce development practices, particularly hiring pipelines for environmental service technicians, and would involve coordination among CalHR, CDCR, the Department of Rehabilitation, the Department of Industrial Relations, the Prison Industry Authority, and the Department of General Services. The Labor Code amendment would leave the correctional industry safety committee structure largely intact, with no substantive change indicated in the digest.

Sentiment

The bill appears to have broad support based on its voting history. It passed committee unanimously and later passed the Assembly unanimously as well, suggesting a generally favorable view of the bill’s workforce inclusion goals and its limited fiscal impact. The absence of recorded committee testimony in the provided materials limits insight into detailed stakeholder positions, but the recorded votes indicate strong bipartisan or cross-faction agreement.

Contention

No major contention is evident in the provided record. The bill’s disability employment goals and pilot-program structure appear to have been noncontroversial, and the votes were unanimous at each stage shown. Any potential policy questions would likely center on implementation details—such as agency coordination, workplace accommodations, and the suitability of correctional facilities as apprenticeship sites—but those concerns are not reflected in the available transcripts or vote summaries.