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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Local educational agencies: governance training."
+description: "(1) Existing law requires all local agency officials to receive training in ethics, at specified intervals, if the local agency provides certain monetary payments to a member of a legislative body, as provided. Existing law requires a local agency to provide information on available ethics training to its officials and authorizes a local agency or an association of local agencies to offer the ethics training, as provided. Existing law requires a local agency to maintain specified records related to the ethics training of its officials. Existing law defines \"local agency\" to include, among others, a school district, county office of education, and charter school, and defines \"local agency official\" to include, among others, a member of the governing board of a school district, a county board of education, or the governing body of a charter school, for these purposes."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20252026"
+identifier: "AB 640"
+citation: "California AB 640 (20252026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Localeducationalagencies", "governancetraining"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Muratsuchi"]
+version_count: 7
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 8
+first_action: "2025-02-13"
+last_action: "2025-10-11"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55a9b1b2-0850-4c0d-8722-685cd34dba6a"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB640"
+source_hash: "0fc943d1ef56517ae2399f1f01d41a5aed57ce217213c0819f53f6e15901d09e"
+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 640 (20252026) — Local educational agencies: governance training.
+
+(1) Existing law requires all local agency officials to receive training in ethics, at specified intervals, if the local agency provides certain monetary payments to a member of a legislative body, as provided. Existing law requires a local agency to provide information on available ethics training to its officials and authorizes a local agency or an association of local agencies to offer the ethics training, as provided. Existing law requires a local agency to maintain specified records related to the ethics training of its officials. Existing law defines "local agency" to include, among others, a school district, county office of education, and charter school, and defines "local agency official" to include, among others, a member of the governing board of a school district, a county board of education, or the governing body of a charter school, for these purposes.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/13/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB640&version=20250AB64099INT)
+2. **03/27/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB640&version=20250AB64098AMD)
+3. **06/30/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB640&version=20250AB64097AMD)
+4. **08/29/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB640&version=20250AB64096AMD)
+5. **10/11/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB640&version=20250AB64094CHP)
+6. **AB640** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB640)
+7. **09/12/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB640&version=20250AB64095ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB640 Muratsuchi et al. By Pérez — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 640 Muratsuchi Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
+- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 640 Muratsuchi Assembly Third Reading — **74–0** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Muratsuchi — primary (person)
+- Wicks — author (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
+- **2025-02-24** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-03-19** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2025-03-27** 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-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-23** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-05-23** Coauthors revised.
+- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-06-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2056.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-06-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2025-06-18** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-19** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
+- **2025-06-30** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
+- **2025-07-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2025-08-18** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-08-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
+- **2025-08-29** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-09-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2700.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
+- **2025-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3234.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-09-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
+- **2025-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 618, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/55a9b1b2-0850-4c0d-8722-685cd34dba6a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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