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+type: "Bill"
+title: "School facilities: use by nonprofit youth organizations: recreational youth sports leagues."
+description: "Existing law, known as the Civic Center Act, authorizes the governing board of a school district to grant the use of school facilities or grounds as a civic center, for specified purposes, upon terms and conditions deemed proper by the governing board of the school district. The act requires the governing board of a school district to authorize the use of school facilities or grounds by a nonprofit organization, or by a club or an association organized to promote youth and school activities, including, but not necessarily limited to, the Girl Scouts, the Boy Scouts, Camp Fire USA, the YMCA, a parent-teacher association, or a school-community advisory council. The act authorizes and requires the governing board of a school district to charge certain fees for use of its school facilities or grounds."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20152016"
+identifier: "AB 1557"
+citation: "California AB 1557 (20152016)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["School facilities: use by nonprofit youth organizations: recreational youth sports leagues."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Mathis"]
+version_count: 9
+action_count: 25
+vote_count: 4
+first_action: "2016-01-04"
+last_action: "2016-08-17"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/816e1852-8f2a-40f9-9ff8-470d642bc68a"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1557"
+source_hash: "7913d3e0ef59d5169a1596fb379473c4fa1f31c8c4f1f5b009fdac49d8b6b46f"
+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 1557 (20152016) — School facilities: use by nonprofit youth organizations: recreational youth sports leagues.
+
+Existing law, known as the Civic Center Act, authorizes the governing board of a school district to grant the use of school facilities or grounds as a civic center, for specified purposes, upon terms and conditions deemed proper by the governing board of the school district. The act requires the governing board of a school district to authorize the use of school facilities or grounds by a nonprofit organization, or by a club or an association organized to promote youth and school activities, including, but not necessarily limited to, the Girl Scouts, the Boy Scouts, Camp Fire USA, the YMCA, a parent-teacher association, or a school-community advisory council. The act authorizes and requires the governing board of a school district to charge certain fees for use of its school facilities or grounds.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **01/04/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1557&version=20150AB155799INT)
+2. **02/25/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1557&version=20150AB155798AMD)
+3. **03/08/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1557&version=20150AB155797AMD)
+4. **03/15/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1557&version=20150AB155796AMD)
+5. **04/26/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1557&version=20150AB155795AMD)
+6. **05/11/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1557&version=20150AB155794AMD)
+7. **08/17/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1557&version=20150AB155792CHP)
+8. **AB1557** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1557)
+9. **08/03/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1557&version=20150AB155793ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass as amended. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 1557 MATHIS Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB1557 Mathis By Anderson — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass — **9–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Mathis — primary (person)
+- Anderson — coauthor (person)
+- Chu — coauthor (person)
+- Chávez — coauthor (person)
+- Cooley — coauthor (person)
+- Cooper — coauthor (person)
+- Harper — coauthor (person)
+- Huff — coauthor (person)
+- Lackey — coauthor (person)
+- Runner — coauthor (person)
+- Wagner — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2016-01-04** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2016-01-05** From printer. May be heard in committee February 4.
+- **2016-02-04** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
+- **2016-02-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-02-29** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
+- **2016-03-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-03-09** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
+- **2016-03-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-03-16** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
+- **2016-04-06** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
+- **2016-04-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-04-27** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
+- **2016-05-10** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 4). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
+- **2016-05-11** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2016-05-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2016-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4895.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2016-06-09** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
+- **2016-06-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2016-06-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4727.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2016-08-02** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
+- **2016-08-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
+- **2016-08-17** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2016-08-17** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 120, Statutes of 2016.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/816e1852-8f2a-40f9-9ff8-470d642bc68a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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