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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Special education: due process hearings: extension of hearings: good cause."
+description: "Existing law requires local educational agencies to identify, locate, and assess individuals with exceptional needs and to provide those pupils with a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment, with special education and related services as reflected in an individualized education program."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20172018"
+identifier: "AB 2580"
+citation: "California AB 2580 (20172018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Special education: due process hearings: extension of hearings: good cause."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Cunningham"]
+version_count: 8
+action_count: 29
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2018-02-15"
+last_action: "2018-09-28"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4beefbd9-04b1-4a3f-8597-3196969cf8e4"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2580"
+source_hash: "9438c001c15d37b5f31412fb820fe5c4574c54c962d4b217cd4e9eaa1f6a7183"
+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 2580 (20172018) — Special education: due process hearings: extension of hearings: good cause.
+
+Existing law requires local educational agencies to identify, locate, and assess individuals with exceptional needs and to provide those pupils with a free appropriate public education in the least restrictive environment, with special education and related services as reflected in an individualized education program.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/15/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2580&version=20170AB258099INT)
+2. **03/15/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2580&version=20170AB258098AMD)
+3. **05/07/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2580&version=20170AB258097AMD)
+4. **07/05/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2580&version=20170AB258096AMD)
+5. **08/23/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2580&version=20170AB258095AMD)
+6. **09/28/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2580&version=20170AB258093CHP)
+7. **AB2580** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2580)
+8. **09/04/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2580&version=20170AB258094ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- 3rd Reading AB2580 Cunningham By Wieckowski — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 2580 CUNNINGHAM Assembly Third Reading — **78–0** (pass) · lower
+- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 2580 CUNNINGHAM Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Cunningham — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2018-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
+- **2018-03-15** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-03-19** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2018-05-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-05-08** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-05-16** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-05-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2018-05-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-05-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5480.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-05-31** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2018-06-07** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-13** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2018-07-03** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 27). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
+- **2018-07-05** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-06** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-08-17** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2018-08-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-23** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5898.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
+- **2018-08-29** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6773.)
+- **2018-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6981.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2018-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
+- **2018-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 874, Statutes of 2018.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4beefbd9-04b1-4a3f-8597-3196969cf8e4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+