---
type: "Bill"
title: "Community colleges: employees."
description: "Existing law prohibits a person from being employed by a community college in an academic or classified position unless the person has submitted to a tuberculosis examination within the past 60 days to determine that he or she is free of active tuberculosis."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 1038"
citation: "California SB 1038 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Community colleges: employees."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Allen"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 16
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2016-02-12"
last_action: "2016-07-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/47de26ef-e6da-4ea8-9420-b6e2be604e42"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1038"
source_hash: "c77cbcbb5a320ba076fdf7a018c08eaba203670f755a4660a4d367abdda6a543"
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 1038 (20152016) — Community colleges: employees.

Existing law prohibits a person from being employed by a community college in an academic or classified position unless the person has submitted to a tuberculosis examination within the past 60 days to determine that he or she is free of active tuberculosis.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/12/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1038&version=20150SB103899INT)
2. **07/01/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1038&version=20150SB103897CHP)
3. **SB1038** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1038)
4. **06/27/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1038&version=20150SB103898ENR)

## Votes

- SB 1038 Allen Senate Third Reading By WOOD — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Allen — primary (person)
- Wood — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-12** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2016-02-16** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
- **2016-02-25** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-11** Set for hearing March 30.
- **2016-03-30** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 3332.) (March 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-03-31** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-04-07** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3432.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-07** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2016-04-28** Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-06-23** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5486.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-23** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2016-06-29** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2016-07-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-07-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 51, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/47de26ef-e6da-4ea8-9420-b6e2be604e42`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).