---
type: "Bill"
title: "College and career fairs."
description: "Existing law requires a school district or school that is planning to hold a college or career fair to notify each apprenticeship program in the same county as the school district or school of the college or career fair, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 1173"
citation: "California AB 1173 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["College and career fairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ta"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2023-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3da5d53a-108e-401c-973a-9367bc3f157e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1173"
source_hash: "6ea93fc8a1f245c599061465cffbc171ba62879a3301a821aff28f2b01d92aff"
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 1173 (20232024) — College and career fairs.

Existing law requires a school district or school that is planning to hold a college or career fair to notify each apprenticeship program in the same county as the school district or school of the college or career fair, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1173&version=20230AB117399INT)
2. **03/28/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1173&version=20230AB117398AMD)
3. **06/29/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1173&version=20230AB117396CHP)
4. **AB1173** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1173)
5. **06/16/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1173&version=20230AB117397ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar AB1173 Ta et al. By Wilk — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1173 Ta Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Higher Education] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ta — primary (person)
- Juan Carrillo — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2023-03-02** Referred to Coms. on ED. and HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-27** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 22). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-03-28** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-29** Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 25). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-27** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1464.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-17** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-07** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 7). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-08** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-06-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1575.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-06-15** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2023-06-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2023-06-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-06-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 23, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3da5d53a-108e-401c-973a-9367bc3f157e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).