---
type: "Bill"
title: "School finance: necessary small schools: necessary small high schools."
description: "School finance: necessary small schools: necessary small high schools."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 1"
citation: "California AB 1 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["School finance: necessary small schools: necessary small high schools."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Aanestad"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 6
first_action: "1998-12-07"
last_action: "1999-07-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/be313ec2-72d3-46af-937e-9e4e6cbc1ccd"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1"
source_hash: "01d5273749605bee3a63496a739d629656073a126342762a73f9d577469e1f98"
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 1 (19992000) — School finance: necessary small schools: necessary small high schools.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/07/98 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1&version=19990AB199INT)
2. **02/11/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1&version=19990AB198AMD)
3. **05/28/99 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1&version=19990AB197AMD)
4. **07/28/99 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1&version=19990AB195CHP)
5. **AB1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1)
6. **07/15/99 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1&version=19990AB196ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent #21 AB1 Aanestad — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1 AANESTAD 3RD READING URGENCY — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Aanestad — primary (person)
- Leslie — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **1999-07-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 191, Statutes of 1999.
- **1999-07-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **1999-07-20** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:15 a.m.
- **1999-07-15** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **1999-07-15** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2308.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-07-14** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-07-13** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **1999-06-16** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **1999-06-07** Referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **1999-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **1999-06-02** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2339.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **1999-06-01** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-05-28** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (May 26). Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-02-12** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **1999-02-11** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **1999-02-08** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (February 3). `committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **1999-01-11** Referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **1998-12-08** From printer. May be heard in committee January 7.
- **1998-12-07** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/be313ec2-72d3-46af-937e-9e4e6cbc1ccd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).