---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education: gender equity training."
description: "Education: gender equity training."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 908"
citation: "California AB 908 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Education: gender equity training."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Alquist"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 26
vote_count: 8
first_action: "1999-02-25"
last_action: "2000-09-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47dc554b-e2bb-49f6-ad60-d260c4d9a8b0"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB908"
source_hash: "1acc7d61052afabd868db45ca9e3b4f07d83d6ed77a77769b8834d7534885e56"
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 908 (19992000) — Education: gender equity training.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/25/99 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB908&version=19990AB90899INT)
2. **04/05/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB908&version=19990AB90898AMD)
3. **05/18/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB908&version=19990AB90897AMD)
4. **06/29/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB908&version=19990AB90895AMD)
5. **07/07/99 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB908&version=19990AB90896AMD)
6. **08/28/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB908&version=19990AB90894AMD)
7. **08/29/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB908&version=19990AB90893AMD)
8. **09/18/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB908&version=19990AB90891CHP)
9. **AB908** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB908)
10. **08/31/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB908&version=19990AB90892ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 908 ALQUIST THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB908 Alquist By Speier — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 908 ALQUIST CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Alquist — primary (person)
- Baca — coauthor (person)
- Kuehl — coauthor (person)
- Speier — coauthor (person)
- Strom-Martin — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2000-09-18** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 459, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-09-15** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-09-13** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2000-08-31** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 62. Noes 11. Page 8841.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2000-08-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2000-08-30** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 9. Page 6323.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-08-29** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2000-08-28** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2000-08-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 4.). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-06-29** 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`
- **2000-06-27** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **1999-08-16** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **1999-07-07** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-07-06** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 9. Noes 3.). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **1999-06-02** Referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **1999-05-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-05-24** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1853.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-05-19** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-18** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-17** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (May 12). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **1999-04-08** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 7). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-04-06** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **1999-04-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Education Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **1999-03-23** Referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **1999-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
- **1999-02-25** 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/47dc554b-e2bb-49f6-ad60-d260c4d9a8b0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).