---
type: "Bill"
title: "School districts: four-day school week: Moorpark Unified School District."
description: "Existing law authorizes certain school districts to operate one or more schools on a 4-day school week if the school district complies with specified instructional time requirements and other requirements related to the 4-day school week."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "SB 236"
citation: "California SB 236 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["School districts: four-day school week: Moorpark Unified School District."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pavley"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 30
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2013-02-12"
last_action: "2013-10-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3d885edd-9f23-4b24-9524-c4cf51894bfb"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB236"
source_hash: "0b60470069dbd0bd410b0fecbaefba0c03cce5fd46cd82ef4233663650a2888f"
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 SB 236 (20132014) — School districts: four-day school week: Moorpark Unified School District.

Existing law authorizes certain school districts to operate one or more schools on a 4-day school week if the school district complies with specified instructional time requirements and other requirements related to the 4-day school week.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/12/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB236&version=20130SB23699INT)
2. **04/01/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB236&version=20130SB23698AMD)
3. **04/11/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB236&version=20130SB23697AMD)
4. **05/08/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB236&version=20130SB23696AMD)
5. **06/19/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB236&version=20130SB23695AMD)
6. **06/26/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB236&version=20130SB23694AMD)
7. **10/10/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB236&version=20130SB23692CHP)
8. **SB236** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB236)
9. **09/03/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB236&version=20130SB23693ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- SB 236 Pavley Third Reading Urgency By GORELL — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent #5 — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent #9 — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pavley — primary (person)
- Gorell — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-12** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `reading-1, introduction`
- **2013-02-13** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 15.
- **2013-02-21** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2013-03-12** Set for hearing April 3.
- **2013-04-01** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-04-10** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 404.) (April 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-04-11** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-04-17** Set for hearing April 22.
- **2013-04-22** Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2013-04-23** Set for hearing April 29.
- **2013-05-07** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 718.) (April 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-08** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-15** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2013-05-20** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 973.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-20** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-30** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-18** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. 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`
- **2013-06-26** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-07-03** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (July 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-08-05** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-08-08** From consent calendar.
- **2013-08-08** Ordered to third reading.
- **2013-08-19** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2601.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-08-19** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2013-08-28** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2013-08-30** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2042.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-09-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2013-10-10** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-10-10** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 716, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3d885edd-9f23-4b24-9524-c4cf51894bfb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).