---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employee codes of conduct: employee interactions with pupils."
description: "Existing law requires local educational agencies to provide certain documents to parents and post certain documents on an Internet Web site."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 500"
citation: "California AB 500 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Employee codes of conduct: employee interactions with pupils."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bloom"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2017-02-13"
last_action: "2017-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d84026fd-ac43-488f-8faf-b925d7f41806"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB500"
source_hash: "5f438ff85c349d595acde0569eff171fb8520605b3436ce04576e582497be1a9"
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 500 (20172018) — Employee codes of conduct: employee interactions with pupils.

Existing law requires local educational agencies to provide certain documents to parents and post certain documents on an Internet Web site.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/13/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB500&version=20170AB50099INT)
2. **05/02/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB500&version=20170AB50098AMD)
3. **08/24/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB500&version=20170AB50097AMD)
4. **10/08/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB500&version=20170AB50095CHP)
5. **AB500** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB500)
6. **09/15/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB500&version=20170AB50096ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB500 Bloom et al. By Allen — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 500 Bloom Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Bloom — primary (person)
- Allen — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2017-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2017-02-27** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-02** 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`
- **2017-05-03** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2017-05-11** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-05-15** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-18** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 1621.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-18** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2017-06-01** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-14** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-06-15** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-06-19** From Consent Calendar.
- **2017-06-19** Ordered to third reading.
- **2017-08-24** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-08-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-09-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2847.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-09-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2017-09-14** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3393.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-09-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
- **2017-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 580, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d84026fd-ac43-488f-8faf-b925d7f41806`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).