---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community colleges: faculty."
description: "Community colleges: faculty."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 420"
citation: "California AB 420 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Community colleges: faculty."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wildman"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 25
vote_count: 8
first_action: "1999-02-12"
last_action: "1999-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f6ef3526-db68-4aaa-9dd4-0cdd56196c0a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB420"
source_hash: "bde4e7d27411aa4326f1b982d5a00cd3ea3aa7bb63dde44d864cfc6fd7e047c8"
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 420 (19992000) — Community colleges: faculty.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/12/99 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB420&version=19990AB42099INT)
2. **03/24/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB420&version=19990AB42098AMD)
3. **05/28/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB420&version=19990AB42097AMD)
4. **08/17/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB420&version=19990AB42096AMD)
5. **08/18/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB420&version=19990AB42095AMD)
6. **09/02/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB420&version=19990AB42094AMD)
7. **09/07/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB420&version=19990AB42093AMD)
8. **10/10/99 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB420&version=19990AB42091CHP)
9. **AB420** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB420)
10. **09/09/99 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB420&version=19990AB42092ENR)

## Votes

- AB 420 WILDMAN THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Placed on Appropriations suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 420 WILDMAN CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB420 Wildman By Vasconcellos — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wildman — primary (person)
- Alpert — principal coauthor (person)
- Havice — coauthor (person)
- Honda — coauthor (person)
- Kuehl — coauthor (person)
- Vasconcellos — principal coauthor (person)
- Washington — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **1999-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 738, Statutes of 1999.
- **1999-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **1999-09-22** Enrolled and to the Governor at 12:15 p.m.
- **1999-09-09** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 54. Noes 26. Page 4298.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **1999-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **1999-09-09** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 8. Page 3134.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-09-08** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-09-07** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **1999-09-02** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 5.). Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-08-23** Joint Rule 61 (a) suspended.
- **1999-08-23** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **1999-08-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-08-17** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-08-16** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 10. Noes 2.). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **1999-06-17** Referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **1999-06-07** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-06-03** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 26. Page 2436.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-06-01** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-28** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 7.) (May 26). Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-12** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **1999-04-22** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 4.) (April 20). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-03-25** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Higher Education. `referral-committee`
- **1999-03-24** Referred to Standing Committee on Higher Education From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Higher Education Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
- **1999-02-12** 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/f6ef3526-db68-4aaa-9dd4-0cdd56196c0a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).