---
type: "Bill"
title: "School and community college employees: parental leave."
description: "(1) Existing law authorizes, during each school year, a person employed by a school district in a position requiring certification qualifications, and a person employed in an academic position by a community college district, to use his or her sick leave for purposes of parental leave for a period of up to 12 workweeks."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 2012"
citation: "California AB 2012 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["School and community college employees: parental leave."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Medina"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2018-02-01"
last_action: "2018-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3d8da55a-c066-4ae3-8d87-98afc27745cf"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2012"
source_hash: "8167e3a73d9444421055967460deb7b8364c4c110b3ad04b3b3718c90f6d5699"
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 2012 (20172018) — School and community college employees: parental leave.

(1) Existing law authorizes, during each school year, a person employed by a school district in a position requiring certification qualifications, and a person employed in an academic position by a community college district, to use his or her sick leave for purposes of parental leave for a period of up to 12 workweeks.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/01/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2012&version=20170AB201299INT)
2. **08/22/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2012&version=20170AB201298AMD)
3. **09/30/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2012&version=20170AB201296CHP)
4. **AB2012** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2012)
5. **08/31/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2012&version=20170AB201297ENR)

## Votes

- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **4–2** (pass) · lower
- AB 2012 MEDINA Assembly Third Reading — **51–20** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2012 MEDINA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **57–23** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Education] — **9–3** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2012 Medina et al. By Skinner — **29–9** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Medina — primary (person)
- Gabriel — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-01** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-02-02** From printer. May be heard in committee March 4.
- **2018-02-16** Referred to Coms. on HIGHER ED. and ED. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-04** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 9. Noes 3.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on ED. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-05-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (May 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-05-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 20. Page 5209.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-05-17** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-05-30** Referred to Coms. on ED. and APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-25** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2018-08-17** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-08-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-22** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2018-08-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 5792.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-27** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 29 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2018-08-29** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 57. Noes 23. Page 6835.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-09-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2018-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 994, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3d8da55a-c066-4ae3-8d87-98afc27745cf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).