---
type: "Bill"
title: "School funding: minimum schoolday: Center for Advanced Research and Technology."
description: "Existing law sets the minimum schoolday in a high school, except certain schools, including a regional occupational center, and except for pupils enrolled in a work experience education program, at 240 minutes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "SB 361"
citation: "California SB 361 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["School funding: minimum schoolday: Center for Advanced Research and Technology."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Berryhill"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 23
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2011-02-15"
last_action: "2011-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ed182301-2cdd-4ffa-89ac-874a16676cf8"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB361"
source_hash: "284d01f9188061b5304818b0cd9941bed28b94de6331ddd724e0be38a009f69a"
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 SB 361 (20112012) — School funding: minimum schoolday: Center for Advanced Research and Technology.

Existing law sets the minimum schoolday in a high school, except certain schools, including a regional occupational center, and except for pupils enrolled in a work experience education program, at 240 minutes.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/15/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB361&version=20110SB36199INT)
2. **03/31/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB361&version=20110SB36198AMD)
3. **05/31/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB361&version=20110SB36197AMD)
4. **10/08/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB361&version=20110SB36195CHP)
5. **SB361** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB361)
6. **09/01/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB361&version=20110SB36196ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 361 Berryhill, T. Senate Third Reading By HALDERMAN — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **8–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **8–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Berryhill — primary (person)
- Halderman — principal coauthor (person)
- Perea — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-15** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2011-02-16** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
- **2011-02-24** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2011-03-09** Set for hearing March 23.
- **2011-03-30** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 429.) (March 23). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-03-31** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-04-05** Set for hearing April 11.
- **2011-04-11** Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2011-05-20** Set for hearing May 26.
- **2011-05-27** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 1115.) (May 26). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-31** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-06-01** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1237.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-06-02** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-09** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-07-07** Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2011-08-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 25). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-08-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-08-30** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2693.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-08-30** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2011-09-06** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2011-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 625, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ed182301-2cdd-4ffa-89ac-874a16676cf8`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).