---
type: "Bill"
title: "School facilities: use by nonprofit youth organizations: recreational youth sports leagues."
description: "Existing law, known as the Civic Center Act, authorizes the governing board of a school district to grant the use of school facilities or grounds as a civic center, for specified purposes, upon terms and conditions deemed proper by the governing board of the school district. The act requires the governing board of a school district to authorize the use of school facilities or grounds by a nonprofit organization, or by a club or an association organized to promote youth and school activities, including, but not necessarily limited to, the Girl Scouts, the Boy Scouts, Camp Fire USA, the YMCA, a parent-teacher association, or a school-community advisory council. The act authorizes and requires the governing board of a school district to charge certain fees for use of its school facilities or grounds."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 1557"
citation: "California AB 1557 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["School facilities: use by nonprofit youth organizations: recreational youth sports leagues."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mathis"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 25
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2016-01-04"
last_action: "2016-08-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/816e1852-8f2a-40f9-9ff8-470d642bc68a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1557"
source_hash: "7913d3e0ef59d5169a1596fb379473c4fa1f31c8c4f1f5b009fdac49d8b6b46f"
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 1557 (20152016) — School facilities: use by nonprofit youth organizations: recreational youth sports leagues.

Existing law, known as the Civic Center Act, authorizes the governing board of a school district to grant the use of school facilities or grounds as a civic center, for specified purposes, upon terms and conditions deemed proper by the governing board of the school district. The act requires the governing board of a school district to authorize the use of school facilities or grounds by a nonprofit organization, or by a club or an association organized to promote youth and school activities, including, but not necessarily limited to, the Girl Scouts, the Boy Scouts, Camp Fire USA, the YMCA, a parent-teacher association, or a school-community advisory council. The act authorizes and requires the governing board of a school district to charge certain fees for use of its school facilities or grounds.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/04/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1557&version=20150AB155799INT)
2. **02/25/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1557&version=20150AB155798AMD)
3. **03/08/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1557&version=20150AB155797AMD)
4. **03/15/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1557&version=20150AB155796AMD)
5. **04/26/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1557&version=20150AB155795AMD)
6. **05/11/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1557&version=20150AB155794AMD)
7. **08/17/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1557&version=20150AB155792CHP)
8. **AB1557** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1557)
9. **08/03/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1557&version=20150AB155793ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1557 MATHIS Assembly Third Reading — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1557 Mathis By Anderson — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mathis — primary (person)
- Anderson — coauthor (person)
- Chu — coauthor (person)
- Chávez — coauthor (person)
- Cooley — coauthor (person)
- Cooper — coauthor (person)
- Harper — coauthor (person)
- Huff — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Runner — coauthor (person)
- Wagner — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-01-04** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-01-05** From printer. May be heard in committee February 4.
- **2016-02-04** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2016-02-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-02-29** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-08** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-03-09** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-03-16** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-06** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2016-04-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-27** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-10** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 4). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2016-05-11** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 4895.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-06-09** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4727.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-02** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2016-08-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2016-08-17** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-08-17** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 120, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/816e1852-8f2a-40f9-9ff8-470d642bc68a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).