---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pupil instruction: civics."
description: "Existing law requires the Instructional Quality Commission to review and revise, as necessary, the course requirements in the history-social science framework to ensure that minimum standards for courses in American government and civics include certain matters."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 137"
citation: "California AB 137 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Pupil instruction: civics."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Buchanan"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 24
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2013-01-16"
last_action: "2013-09-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/5b902aa2-10d8-4fe0-a32f-fa370d7c3b60"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB137"
source_hash: "f061a37093b738cb9ce8173efbd56f3fe00f4270984fcc42bf60e173e1188135"
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 137 (20132014) — Pupil instruction: civics.

Existing law requires the Instructional Quality Commission to review and revise, as necessary, the course requirements in the history-social science framework to ensure that minimum standards for courses in American government and civics include certain matters.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/16/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB137&version=20130AB13799INT)
2. **03/14/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB137&version=20130AB13798AMD)
3. **04/10/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB137&version=20130AB13797AMD)
4. **05/06/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB137&version=20130AB13796AMD)
5. **06/19/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB137&version=20130AB13795AMD)
6. **09/06/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB137&version=20130AB13793CHP)
7. **AB137** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB137)
8. **08/27/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB137&version=20130AB13794ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB137 Buchanan By Yee — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 137 BUCHANAN Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 137 BUCHANAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Buchanan — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-01-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-01-17** From printer. May be heard in committee February 16.
- **2013-03-14** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-14** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-03-18** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-11** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-02** From committee: Do pass as amended. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-06** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-07** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1345.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-23** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-18** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 12). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-06-19** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-07-01** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2013-07-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-08-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1881.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-08-19** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2013-08-22** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2646.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-08-29** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2013-09-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-09-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 225, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/5b902aa2-10d8-4fe0-a32f-fa370d7c3b60`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).