---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pupils: school district residency requirements."
description: "Existing law requires persons between 6 and 18 years of age, inclusive, to attend a public school within the school district in which the pupil's parent or legal guardian resides, unless otherwise exempted. Existing law provides that a pupil complies with a school district's residency requirements for school attendance in that school district if the pupil meets one of the specified requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "SB 200"
citation: "California SB 200 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Pupils: school district residency requirements."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lara"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 23
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2015-02-10"
last_action: "2015-08-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e82cc4dd-7f72-4e1b-ac09-a6494307e2c1"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB200"
source_hash: "4f295abc2e1822620019c76b7463cbf4cde856d9bfc8fddb9e7e6675096ec1d2"
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 200 (20152016) — Pupils: school district residency requirements.

Existing law requires persons between 6 and 18 years of age, inclusive, to attend a public school within the school district in which the pupil's parent or legal guardian resides, unless otherwise exempted. Existing law provides that a pupil complies with a school district's residency requirements for school attendance in that school district if the pupil meets one of the specified requirements.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/10/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB200&version=20150SB20099INT)
2. **03/25/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB200&version=20150SB20098AMD)
3. **08/11/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB200&version=20150SB20096CHP)
4. **SB200** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB200)
5. **07/27/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB200&version=20150SB20097ENR)

## Votes

- [04-27-2015] hearing: Reconsideration granted — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 200 Lara Senate Third Reading By BONILLA — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **35–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Lara — primary (person)
- Bonilla — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-10** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2015-02-11** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 13.
- **2015-02-19** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2015-03-06** Set for hearing March 18.
- **2015-03-24** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2015-03-25** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-22** Set for hearing April 27.
- **2015-04-27** April 27 hearing: Reconsideration of a favorable vote granted.
- **2015-04-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 779.) (April 27). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-04-30** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 841.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-30** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-14** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-07-08** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (July 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-07-09** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-07-13** From consent calendar.
- **2015-07-13** Ordered to third reading.
- **2015-07-16** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2429.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-07-16** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2015-07-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 10 a.m.
- **2015-08-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-08-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 174, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e82cc4dd-7f72-4e1b-ac09-a6494307e2c1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).