---
type: "Bill"
title: "School districts: employee housing."
description: "Existing law establishes various housing and home loan programs throughout the state to help low-income families and other specified groups. Existing law authorizes the governing board of any school district, when leasing a building for housing of school district employees, to lease the building for any period they deem necessary."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 1413"
citation: "California SB 1413 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["School districts: employee housing."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Leno"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 34
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2016-02-19"
last_action: "2016-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7535b49e-e3e5-418e-a495-2531663d977e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1413"
source_hash: "0781ece17046e673eb0d2d2cdf9d971d442be93dd9a96b088804969886f17887"
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 1413 (20152016) — School districts: employee housing.

Existing law establishes various housing and home loan programs throughout the state to help low-income families and other specified groups. Existing law authorizes the governing board of any school district, when leasing a building for housing of school district employees, to lease the building for any period they deem necessary.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1413&version=20150SB141399INT)
2. **03/30/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1413&version=20150SB141398AMD)
3. **04/19/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1413&version=20150SB141397AMD)
4. **04/27/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1413&version=20150SB141396AMD)
5. **05/10/16 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1413&version=20150SB141395AMD)
6. **06/16/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1413&version=20150SB141394AMD)
7. **09/27/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1413&version=20150SB141392CHP)
8. **SB1413** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1413)
9. **09/02/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB1413&version=20150SB141393ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 1413 Leno Senate Third Reading By TING — **62–18** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB1413 Leno Concurrence — **30–8** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Education] — **6–1** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **29–7** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Rules] — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Leno — primary (person)
- Chiu — coauthor (person)
- Ting — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-02-19** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2016-02-22** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
- **2016-02-22** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2016-03-10** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-11** Set for hearing March 30.
- **2016-03-28** March 30 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2016-03-30** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-03-31** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2016-03-31** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-04** Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-12** Set for hearing April 26.
- **2016-04-19** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on T. & H. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3689.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-27** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-05-04** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2016-05-06** Set for hearing May 16.
- **2016-05-10** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-05-16** May 16 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2016-05-20** Set for hearing May 27.
- **2016-05-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 4010.) (May 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-05-31** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 7. Page 4034.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-01** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2016-06-09** Referred to Coms. on H. & C.D. and ED. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-15** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 15). Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-16** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 22). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-08-24** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 62. Noes 18. Page 6227.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-08-25** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2016-08-29** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 8. Page 5491.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2016-09-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
- **2016-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 732, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7535b49e-e3e5-418e-a495-2531663d977e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).