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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Pupil attendance: excused absences: cultural ceremonies or events."
+description: "Existing law, notwithstanding the requirement that each person between 6 and 18 years of age who is not otherwise exempted is subject to compulsory full-time education, requires a pupil to be excused from school for specified types of absences, including, among others, if the absence was due to the pupil's illness."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20212022"
+identifier: "AB 516"
+citation: "California AB 516 (20212022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Pupil attendance: excused absences: cultural ceremonies or events."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Megan Dahle"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 28
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2021-02-10"
+last_action: "2021-09-24"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ca591107-b5cd-4a58-aef9-bbe232a5bad3"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB516"
+source_hash: "06241ddf2afec50f38bd51b12fe125dbbc72d172d546bf53f0212cb5b824596b"
+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 516 (20212022) — Pupil attendance: excused absences: cultural ceremonies or events.
+
+Existing law, notwithstanding the requirement that each person between 6 and 18 years of age who is not otherwise exempted is subject to compulsory full-time education, requires a pupil to be excused from school for specified types of absences, including, among others, if the absence was due to the pupil's illness.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/10/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB516&version=20210AB51699INT)
+2. **06/22/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB516&version=20210AB51698AMD)
+3. **09/03/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB516&version=20210AB51697AMD)
+4. **09/24/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB516&version=20210AB51695CHP)
+5. **AB516** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB516)
+6. **09/15/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB516&version=20210AB51696ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- AB 516 Megan Dahle Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB516 Megan Dahle By Dahle Reconsider — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 516 Megan Dahle Assembly Third Reading — **78–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB516 Megan Dahle By Dahle — **37–0** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading AB516 Megan Dahle By Dahle — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Megan Dahle — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2021-02-10** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2021-02-11** From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
+- **2021-02-18** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-03-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2021-04-14** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-05-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 20). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-05-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2021-05-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1605.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2021-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2021-06-09** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-21** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 16). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-22** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2021-06-30** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2021-07-15** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
+- **2021-08-16** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2021-08-19** From Consent Calendar.
+- **2021-08-19** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2021-08-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2226.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2021-08-30** Motion to reconsider made by Senator Dahle.
+- **2021-08-30** Reconsideration granted. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2233.)
+- **2021-09-03** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2021-09-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2021-09-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2620.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2021-09-10** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
+- **2021-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3156.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2021-09-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
+- **2021-09-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2021-09-24** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 281, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ca591107-b5cd-4a58-aef9-bbe232a5bad3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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