---
type: "Bill"
title: "Classified community college employees."
description: "(1) Existing law requires the governing board of a community college district to employ persons for positions that are not academic positions in what is known as the classified service. Existing law requires the governing board of a community college district to prescribe written rules and regulations governing the personnel management of the classified service, whereby classified employees are designated as permanent employees of the district after serving a prescribed period of probation that is prohibited from exceeding one year."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 275"
citation: "California AB 275 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Classified community college employees."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Medina"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2021-01-19"
last_action: "2021-10-06"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1cf7fd9a-5a2c-4dc7-b1ef-6c266a8a0e8d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB275"
source_hash: "058700c3cd88e02c6ac040fdf413aeaac948a49c0222fa311f82dedebe5532d1"
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 275 (20212022) — Classified community college employees.

(1) Existing law requires the governing board of a community college district to employ persons for positions that are not academic positions in what is known as the classified service. Existing law requires the governing board of a community college district to prescribe written rules and regulations governing the personnel management of the classified service, whereby classified employees are designated as permanent employees of the district after serving a prescribed period of probation that is prohibited from exceeding one year.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/19/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB275&version=20210AB27599INT)
2. **03/01/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB275&version=20210AB27598AMD)
3. **06/21/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB275&version=20210AB27597AMD)
4. **06/30/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB275&version=20210AB27596AMD)
5. **10/06/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB275&version=20210AB27594CHP)
6. **AB275** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB275)
7. **08/23/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB275&version=20210AB27595ENR)

## Votes

- AB 275 Medina Assembly Third Reading — **65–2** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB275 Medina By Newman — **29–10** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **10–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 275 Medina Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **59–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Medina — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-01-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2021-01-20** From printer. May be heard in committee February 19.
- **2021-01-28** Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-03-02** Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (March 24). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-03-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 2. Page 1064.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-04-19** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2021-05-12** Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-06-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 1694.) (June 28). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2021-06-30** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-07-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 1906.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-07-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 14 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2021-08-23** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 59. Noes 5. Page 2460.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2021-10-06** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-10-06** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 556, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1cf7fd9a-5a2c-4dc7-b1ef-6c266a8a0e8d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).