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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "School employees: dismissal or suspension: hearings."
+description: "Existing law prohibits a permanent school employee from being dismissed, except for one or more of certain enumerated causes, including immoral or unprofessional conduct."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20132014"
+identifier: "AB 215"
+citation: "California AB 215 (20132014)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["School employees: dismissal or suspension: hearings."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Buchanan"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 26
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2013-01-31"
+last_action: "2014-06-25"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5781d63-72e1-4cb8-9b5b-3b7f146b758d"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB215"
+source_hash: "47b7403b5291eafc6ce17d783e90039e14607d45fff87c23e3d4601da5179e7b"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 215 (20132014) — School employees: dismissal or suspension: hearings.
+
+Existing law prohibits a permanent school employee from being dismissed, except for one or more of certain enumerated causes, including immoral or unprofessional conduct.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **01/31/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB215&version=20130AB21599INT)
+2. **04/03/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB215&version=20130AB21598AMD)
+3. **05/12/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB215&version=20130AB21597AMD)
+4. **05/20/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB215&version=20130AB21596AMD)
+5. **06/25/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB215&version=20130AB21594CHP)
+6. **AB215** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB215)
+7. **06/16/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB215&version=20130AB21595ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 215 CHESBRO Assembly Third Reading — **73–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB215 Buchanan By Padilla — **33–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 215 BUCHANAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
+- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Buchanan — primary (person)
+- Block — coauthor (person)
+- Correa — principal coauthor (person)
+- Liu — principal coauthor (person)
+- Monning — coauthor (person)
+- Olsen — principal coauthor (person)
+- Padilla — principal coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2013-01-31** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2013-02-01** From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
+- **2013-02-07** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
+- **2013-04-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
+- **2013-04-17** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2013-04-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2013-05-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1216.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2013-05-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2013-05-15** Referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
+- **2013-05-21** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
+- **2014-04-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2014-04-07** Withdrawn from committee.
+- **2014-04-07** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
+- **2014-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
+- **2014-05-08** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
+- **2014-05-12** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2014-05-19** In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
+- **2014-05-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
+- **2014-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2014-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2014-06-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 3780.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
+- **2014-06-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2014-06-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5491.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2014-06-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:45 a.m.
+- **2014-06-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2014-06-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 55, Statutes of 2014.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a5781d63-72e1-4cb8-9b5b-3b7f146b758d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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