---
type: "Bill"
title: "Air pollution: schools."
description: "(1) Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998, requires the State Allocation Board to allocate to applicant school districts prescribed per-unhoused-pupil state funding for the construction and modernization of school facilities, including hardship funding, and supplemental funding for site development and acquisition."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 2453"
citation: "California AB 2453 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Air pollution: schools."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Eduardo Garcia"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 34
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2018-02-14"
last_action: "2018-09-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a3c0ac63-af50-4fba-95f5-54aaa1cee432"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2453"
source_hash: "5ef92010ee9e0bcb39d5b716628c0630f8bad50a678682376ccb1755dbd09268"
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 2453 (20172018) — Air pollution: schools.

(1) Existing law, the Leroy F. Greene School Facilities Act of 1998, requires the State Allocation Board to allocate to applicant school districts prescribed per-unhoused-pupil state funding for the construction and modernization of school facilities, including hardship funding, and supplemental funding for site development and acquisition.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2453&version=20170AB245399INT)
2. **03/15/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2453&version=20170AB245398AMD)
3. **04/16/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2453&version=20170AB245397AMD)
4. **04/26/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2453&version=20170AB245396AMD)
5. **06/25/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2453&version=20170AB245395AMD)
6. **08/17/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2453&version=20170AB245394AMD)
7. **09/23/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2453&version=20170AB245392CHP)
8. **AB2453** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2453)
9. **08/31/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2453&version=20170AB245393ENR)

## Votes

- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2453 GARCIA, E. Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **80–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Environmental Quality] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB2453 Eduardo Garcia et al. By Lara — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2453 GARCIA, E. Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Eduardo Garcia — primary (person)
- Gonzalez Fletcher — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2018-03-15** Referred to Coms. on ED. and NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-15** 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`
- **2018-03-19** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-09** Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 4554.)
- **2018-04-09** (pending re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES.)
- **2018-04-12** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (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 NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-17** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2018-04-25** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 23). `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`
- **2018-05-16** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-25** Coauthors revised.
- **2018-05-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-05-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5472.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-05-31** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-06-07** Referred to Coms. on ED. and EQ. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on EQ. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on EQ. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-21** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 20). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-06-25** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2018-08-06** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2018-08-17** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-08-17** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5763.). `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 80. Noes 0. Page 6854.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-09-07** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2018-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 714, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a3c0ac63-af50-4fba-95f5-54aaa1cee432`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).