---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education."
description: "Education."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000 Special Session 1"
identifier: "AB 2"
citation: "California AB 2 (19992000 Special Session 1)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Education."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mazzoni"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 22
vote_count: 8
first_action: "1999-01-19"
last_action: "1999-03-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3fda7f7a-1e04-4061-8980-35334191dbac"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920001AB2"
source_hash: "713b0df9286a8b1483666ee06ca95ff35621c75ae17fb330774d0d6c4f2c2254"
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 2 (19992000 Special Session 1) — Education.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **01/19/99 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920001AB2&version=19991AB299INT)
2. **02/08/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920001AB2&version=19991AB298AMD)
3. **02/12/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920001AB2&version=19991AB297AMD)
4. **03/04/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920001AB2&version=19991AB296AMD)
5. **03/15/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920001AB2&version=19991AB295AMD)
6. **03/18/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920001AB2&version=19991AB294AMD)
7. **03/29/99 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920001AB2&version=19991AB292CHP)
8. **AB2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920001AB2)
9. **03/22/99 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920001AB2&version=19991AB293ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2 Mazzoni McPherson Urgency Clause — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2 MAZZONI CONCURRENCE W/O REFERENCE TO FILE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2 MAZZONI 3RD READING URGENCY — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Higher Education. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Mazzoni — primary (person)
- Alquist — principal coauthor (person)
- Baldwin — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Campbell — principal coauthor (person)
- Cunneen — author (person)
- Davis — coauthor (person)
- Honda — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- McPherson — principal coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Robert Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Schiff — principal coauthor (person)
- Scott — coauthor (person)
- Soto — coauthor (person)
- Washington — coauthor (person)
- Wildman — coauthor (person)
- Zettel — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **1999-03-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 2, Statutes of 1999-2000 First Extraordinary Session.
- **1999-03-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **1999-03-29** Enrolled and to the Governor at 9 a.m.
- **1999-03-22** In Assembly. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 137.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **1999-03-22** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 52.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-03-18** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.). Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-03-15** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-03-11** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 10. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **1999-03-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Education. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-03-03** Referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **1999-02-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-02-25** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 85.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-02-24** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-02-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (February 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **1999-02-16** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **1999-02-12** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-02-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (February 9). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **1999-02-08** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Higher Education. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-02-04** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Higher Education (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (February 3). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **1999-02-01** Referred to Standing Committee on Education and HIGHER Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **1999-01-20** From printer.
- **1999-01-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3fda7f7a-1e04-4061-8980-35334191dbac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).