---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pupil health: individuals with exceptional needs."
description: "Pupil health: individuals with exceptional needs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20072008"
identifier: "AB 342"
citation: "California AB 342 (20072008)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Pupil health: individuals with exceptional needs."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Saldana"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2007-02-14"
last_action: "2007-06-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/282bb64b-5a63-4058-92a5-70667cf86d23"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB342"
source_hash: "cf46f007a824941b58224d23395414869502985f384de8903ff3a0f37882a77a"
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 342 (20072008) — Pupil health: individuals with exceptional needs.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/07 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB342&version=20070AB34299INT)
2. **04/16/07 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB342&version=20070AB34298AMD)
3. **06/07/07 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB342&version=20070AB34296CHP)
4. **AB342** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB342)
5. **05/31/07 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200720080AB342&version=20070AB34297ENR)

## Votes

- AB 342 SALDANA Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Education to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB342 Saldana — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Saldana — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2007-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2007-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2007-03-22** Referred to Standing Committee on Health and Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2007-04-11** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Education with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 10). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2007-04-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Education Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction, referral-committee`
- **2007-04-17** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-03** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 2). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-05-07** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-05-10** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 1439.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-05-10** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2007-05-17** Referred to Standing Committee on Health. `referral-committee`
- **2007-05-24** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2007-05-25** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2007-05-31** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1132.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2007-05-31** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2007-06-01** Enrolled and to the Governor at 1:45 p.m.
- **2007-06-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2007-06-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 12, Statutes of 2007.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/282bb64b-5a63-4058-92a5-70667cf86d23`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).