---
type: "Bill"
title: "School employees: dismissal or suspension: hearings: evidence."
description: "Existing law establishes procedures for the dismissal and suspension of school employees. Existing law prohibits a permanent school employee from being dismissed, except for one or more of certain enumerated causes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 2128"
citation: "California AB 2128 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["School employees: dismissal or suspension: hearings: evidence."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kiley"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 27
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2018-02-08"
last_action: "2018-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9f36701f-d6a6-4494-a7f1-c9e61eac38a3"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2128"
source_hash: "50cb0ba3dae8b4dca8fa38a8ba9d06b3a6cdba3663de76b02b50d235e23276f2"
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 2128 (20172018) — School employees: dismissal or suspension: hearings: evidence.

Existing law establishes procedures for the dismissal and suspension of school employees. Existing law prohibits a permanent school employee from being dismissed, except for one or more of certain enumerated causes.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/08/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2128&version=20170AB212899INT)
2. **03/22/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2128&version=20170AB212898AMD)
3. **04/16/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2128&version=20170AB212897AMD)
4. **04/26/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2128&version=20170AB212896AMD)
5. **05/17/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2128&version=20170AB212895AMD)
6. **08/06/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2128&version=20170AB212894AMD)
7. **09/27/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2128&version=20170AB212892CHP)
8. **AB2128** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2128)
9. **08/22/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2128&version=20170AB212893ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Consent Calendar AB2128 — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2128 KILEY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2128 KILEY Assembly Third Reading — **74–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Kiley — primary (person)
- Baker — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-08** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-02-09** From printer. May be heard in committee March 11.
- **2018-03-22** Referred to Coms. on ED. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-12** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 11). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-04-16** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-04-17** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-25** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 24). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-04-26** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-04-30** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-30** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2018-04-30** Ordered to second reading.
- **2018-05-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-17** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 5204.) `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2018-05-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 5240.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-05-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-05-30** Referred to Coms. on ED. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-07-05** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 3). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-08-06** Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-08-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5277.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 16 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2018-08-20** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6353.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-08-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2018-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 816, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9f36701f-d6a6-4494-a7f1-c9e61eac38a3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).