--- type: "Bill" title: "Local educational agencies: governance training." description: "(1) Existing law requires all local agency officials to receive training in ethics, at specified intervals, if the local agency provides certain monetary payments to a member of a legislative body, as provided. Existing law requires a local agency to provide information on available ethics training to its officials and authorizes a local agency or an association of local agencies to offer the ethics training, as provided. Existing law requires a local agency to maintain specified records related to the ethics training of its officials. Existing law defines \"local agency\" to include, among others, a school district, county office of education, and charter school, and defines \"local agency official\" to include, among others, a member of the governing board of a school district, a county board of education, or the governing body of a charter school, for these purposes." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20252026" identifier: "AB 640" citation: "California AB 640 (20252026)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Localeducationalagencies", "governancetraining"] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Muratsuchi"] version_count: 7 action_count: 27 vote_count: 8 first_action: "2025-02-13" last_action: "2025-10-11" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/55a9b1b2-0850-4c0d-8722-685cd34dba6a" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB640" source_hash: "0fc943d1ef56517ae2399f1f01d41a5aed57ce217213c0819f53f6e15901d09e" 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 640 (20252026) — Local educational agencies: governance training. (1) Existing law requires all local agency officials to receive training in ethics, at specified intervals, if the local agency provides certain monetary payments to a member of a legislative body, as provided. Existing law requires a local agency to provide information on available ethics training to its officials and authorizes a local agency or an association of local agencies to offer the ethics training, as provided. Existing law requires a local agency to maintain specified records related to the ethics training of its officials. Existing law defines "local agency" to include, among others, a school district, county office of education, and charter school, and defines "local agency official" to include, among others, a member of the governing board of a school district, a county board of education, or the governing body of a charter school, for these purposes. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **02/13/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB640&version=20250AB64099INT) 2. **03/27/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB640&version=20250AB64098AMD) 3. **06/30/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB640&version=20250AB64097AMD) 4. **08/29/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB640&version=20250AB64096AMD) 5. **10/11/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB640&version=20250AB64094CHP) 6. **AB640** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB640) 7. **09/12/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB640&version=20250AB64095ENR) ## Votes - Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · lower - 3rd Reading AB640 Muratsuchi et al. By Pérez — **39–0** (pass) · upper - AB 640 Muratsuchi Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower - Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper - Do pass. — **13–0** (pass) · lower - Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper - AB 640 Muratsuchi Assembly Third Reading — **74–0** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Muratsuchi — primary (person) - Wicks — author (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2025-02-13** Read first time. To print. `reading-1` - **2025-02-14** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16. - **2025-02-24** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee` - **2025-03-19** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee. - **2025-03-27** 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-1, reading-2` - **2025-03-28** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee` - **2025-04-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2025-04-23** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee` - **2025-05-23** Coauthors revised. - **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-06-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2056.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2025-06-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1` - **2025-06-18** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee` - **2025-06-19** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author. - **2025-06-30** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee` - **2025-07-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee` - **2025-08-18** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee` - **2025-08-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage` - **2025-08-29** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-09-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2` - **2025-09-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2700.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3` - **2025-09-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. - **2025-09-10** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3234.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable` - **2025-09-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m. - **2025-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2025-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 618, Statutes of 2025. `became-law` ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/55a9b1b2-0850-4c0d-8722-685cd34dba6a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).