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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "School field trips: expenses."
+description: "Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district or the county superintendent of schools of a county to conduct field trips or excursions in connection with courses of instruction or school-related social, educational, cultural, athletic, or school band activities to and from places in the state, any other state, the District of Columbia, or a foreign country for pupils enrolled in elementary or secondary schools. Existing law prohibits school districts from paying expenses of pupils participating in a field trip or excursion to any other state, the District of Columbia, or a foreign country with school district funds."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20172018"
+identifier: "AB 341"
+citation: "California AB 341 (20172018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["School field trips: expenses."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Frazier"]
+version_count: 4
+action_count: 16
+vote_count: 3
+first_action: "2017-02-07"
+last_action: "2017-07-10"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/df9ede5b-5362-426c-859d-3c2c84744007"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB341"
+source_hash: "2fd9cce7b98dbfa22fd6f6da5af678dd4d5a1a7f569713799fbe74b80cfba592"
+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 341 (20172018) — School field trips: expenses.
+
+Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district or the county superintendent of schools of a county to conduct field trips or excursions in connection with courses of instruction or school-related social, educational, cultural, athletic, or school band activities to and from places in the state, any other state, the District of Columbia, or a foreign country for pupils enrolled in elementary or secondary schools. Existing law prohibits school districts from paying expenses of pupils participating in a field trip or excursion to any other state, the District of Columbia, or a foreign country with school district funds.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/07/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB341&version=20170AB34199INT)
+2. **07/10/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB341&version=20170AB34197CHP)
+3. **AB341** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB341)
+4. **06/23/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB341&version=20170AB34198ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Consent Calendar 2nd AB341 — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 341 FRAZIER Consent Calendar Second Day — **69–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Frazier — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-07** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2017-02-08** From printer. May be heard in committee March 10.
+- **2017-02-21** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-03-22** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2017-05-11** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2017-05-15** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2017-05-18** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1621.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2017-05-18** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2017-06-01** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-14** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2017-06-15** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2017-06-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1680.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2017-06-22** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
+- **2017-06-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
+- **2017-07-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2017-07-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 40, Statutes of 2017.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/df9ede5b-5362-426c-859d-3c2c84744007`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+