---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public education."
description: "Public education."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 312"
citation: "California AB 312 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public education."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Strom-Martin"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 35
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2001-02-16"
last_action: "2002-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b1966a9-18e4-45ed-b0b5-15ab4daa1c4b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB312"
source_hash: "29ca018af2e190eecbca6af1b099c8e1c3c8ccf6acd30285429b9ec2a48c5934"
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 312 (20012002) — Public education.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/01 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB312&version=20010AB31299INT)
2. **03/27/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB312&version=20010AB31298AMD)
3. **04/17/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB312&version=20010AB31297AMD)
4. **05/31/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB312&version=20010AB31296AMD)
5. **07/05/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB312&version=20010AB31295AMD)
6. **08/27/02 - Proposed** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB312&version=20010AB31294PRO)
7. **09/28/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB312&version=20010AB31292CHP)
8. **AB312** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB312)
9. **09/17/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB312&version=20010AB31293ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent #23 AB312 Wesson — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 312 Wesson Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **fail** (fail) · lower
- AB 312 Wesson Conference Report By Strom-Martin Urgency Added — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 312 Wesson Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Conference Reports AB312 Strom-Martin Urgency Clause — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Strom-Martin — primary (person)
- Vasconcellos — author (person)
- Wesson — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 1020, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-09-18** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2002-08-31** Senate adopts Conference report. To enrollment. (Ayes 27. Noes 11. Page 6103.)
- **2002-08-30** Assembly adopts Conference report. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 8638.)
- **2002-08-27** From Conference Committee: With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in and that the bill be further amended. (Ayes: 6 (Assembly: Wyland, Diaz, and Strom-Martin) (Senate: Vasconcellos, Ortiz, and Poochigian)) (Noes: 0). To Print. `amendment-passage`
- **2002-06-26** Assembly Member Strom-Martin replaces Assembly Member Steinberg on Conference Committee.
- **2001-09-12** Joint Rules 29.5 and 30, and Senate Rule 29.9 suspended.
- **2001-08-23** Assembly Members Steinberg, Diaz, and Wyland appointed to Conference Committee.
- **2001-08-23** Senators Vasconcellos, Ortiz, and Poochigian appointed to Conference Committee.
- **2001-08-23** Joint Rule 28.1 suspended in Senate.
- **2001-08-23** Joint Rule 28.1 suspended in Assembly.
- **2001-08-20** Assembly refused to concur in Senate amendments. To Conference Committee. (Ayes 6. Noes 69. Page 3051.) `committee-failure`
- **2001-07-18** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 20 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2001-07-18** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 2081.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-07-17** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-07-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2001-07-12** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2001-07-05** 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. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-06-20** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2001-06-12** Referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2001-06-06** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2001-06-05** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2206.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-06-04** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-05-31** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (May 31). Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-05-29** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice waived. (Page 1856.)
- **2001-05-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-23** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-17** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2001-04-16** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 4). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2001-03-29** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-27** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Education Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-03-12** Referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2001-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2001-02-16** 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/4b1966a9-18e4-45ed-b0b5-15ab4daa1c4b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).