---
type: "Bill"
title: "School employees: reemployment."
description: "Existing law requires that persons laid off because of lack of work or lack of funds in a school district or community college district that has adopted the merit system be eligible for reemployment for a period of 39 months, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 2307"
citation: "California AB 2307 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["School employees: reemployment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Butler"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2012-02-24"
last_action: "2012-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42150b2a-7609-4751-b65f-876e4289d341"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2307"
source_hash: "bf398710da7e1c96d7aa060550246550a2587172c53d34bc61677935944d2605"
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 2307 (20112012) — School employees: reemployment.

Existing law requires that persons laid off because of lack of work or lack of funds in a school district or community college district that has adopted the merit system be eligible for reemployment for a period of 39 months, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/24/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2307&version=20110AB230799INT)
2. **03/22/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2307&version=20110AB230798AMD)
3. **07/05/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2307&version=20110AB230797AMD)
4. **09/26/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2307&version=20110AB230795CHP)
5. **AB2307** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2307)
6. **08/27/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2307&version=20110AB230796ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2307 BUTLER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **64–13** (pass) · lower
- AB 2307 BUTLER Assembly Third Reading — **46–27** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2307 Butler By Vargas — **22–14** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **6–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **4–2** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Butler — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-02-24** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2012-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2012-02-27** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2012-03-15** Referred to Com. on P.E., R. & S.S. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P.E., R. & S.S. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-03-26** Re-referred to Com. on P.E., R. & S.S. `referral-committee`
- **2012-05-02** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (May 2). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-05-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 46. Noes 27. Page 4892.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2012-05-24** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-20** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2012-07-03** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 27). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-07-05** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 14. Page 4572.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-20** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2012-08-22** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 64. Noes 13. Page 6112.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2012-09-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 586, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/42150b2a-7609-4751-b65f-876e4289d341`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).