---
type: "Bill"
title: "School bonds."
description: "School bonds."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 1908"
citation: "California AB 1908 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["School bonds."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lempert"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 20
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2000-02-11"
last_action: "2000-06-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/92505c4b-051a-4fbc-be16-da9daac04332"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1908"
source_hash: "f9a605187efc6cd71a860c6b4c645773c95249bd6c1ee0802e886bda4ee26071"
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 1908 (19992000) — School bonds.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/11/00 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1908&version=19990AB190899INT)
2. **05/16/00 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1908&version=19990AB190898AMD)
3. **06/19/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1908&version=19990AB190897AMD)
4. **06/20/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1908&version=19990AB190896AMD)
5. **06/27/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1908&version=19990AB190894CHP)
6. **AB1908** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1908)
7. **06/26/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1908&version=19990AB190895ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1908 LEMPERT CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- W/O REF. TO FILE AB1908 Lempert Amend by Haynes Lay on Table — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 1908 LEMPERT THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower
- W/O REF. TO FILE AB1908 Lempert O'Connell — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lempert — primary (person)
- O'Connell — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2000-06-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 44, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-06-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-06-26** Enrolled and to the Governor at 12:45 p.m.
- **2000-06-26** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 46. Noes 29. Page 7345.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2000-06-23** (Corrected June 22. )
- **2000-06-22** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2000-06-22** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. Read second time. To third reading. Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 12. Page 5227.) `committee-passage, reading-3, passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-06-21** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2000-06-20** 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`
- **2000-06-19** 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`
- **2000-06-01** Referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2000-05-18** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2000-05-18** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 6454.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-05-17** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-05-16** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-05-15** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 3). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2000-03-30** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2000-02-18** Referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2000-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2000-02-11** 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/92505c4b-051a-4fbc-be16-da9daac04332`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).