---
type: "Bill"
title: "School finance: necessary small schools."
description: "(1) Existing law, for specified purposes, provides that a necessary small school is an elementary school with an average daily attendance of less than 97 pupils, excluding pupils attending the 7th and 8th grades of a junior high school, maintained by a school district to which any of certain conditions apply, including specified distance requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "SB 1321"
citation: "California SB 1321 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["School finance: necessary small schools."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Monning"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2018-02-16"
last_action: "2018-09-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fdf6a895-c2fb-4368-abb5-62a8dfc3e934"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1321"
source_hash: "a5f78798229d6bca18c90c4184ab309c2d3365c13fde44e18297dbd25e23231e"
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 1321 (20172018) — School finance: necessary small schools.

(1) Existing law, for specified purposes, provides that a necessary small school is an elementary school with an average daily attendance of less than 97 pupils, excluding pupils attending the 7th and 8th grades of a junior high school, maintained by a school district to which any of certain conditions apply, including specified distance requirements.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1321&version=20170SB132199INT)
2. **03/22/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1321&version=20170SB132198AMD)
3. **09/21/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1321&version=20170SB132196CHP)
4. **SB1321** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1321)
5. **09/07/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB1321&version=20170SB132197ENR)

## Votes

- Special Consent SB1321 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 1321 Monning Senate Third Reading By CUNNINGHAM — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **17–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Monning — primary (person)
- Cunningham — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-02-16** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-20** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
- **2018-03-01** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-06** Set for hearing April 4.
- **2018-03-22** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2018-04-04** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 4533.) (April 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-04-09** Set for hearing April 16.
- **2018-04-16** April 16 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2018-05-18** Set for hearing May 25.
- **2018-05-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4308.) (May 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-05-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-29** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2018-05-31** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4456.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-05-31** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2018-06-11** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-08-08** August 8 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2018-08-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-30** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6966.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-30** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2018-09-12** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
- **2018-09-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 664, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fdf6a895-c2fb-4368-abb5-62a8dfc3e934`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).