---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education finance: classified and certificated staff salaries."
description: "Existing law, commencing with the 2013–14 fiscal year, establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 938"
citation: "California AB 938 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education finance", "classified and certificated staff salaries"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Muratsuchi"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 36
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2023-02-14"
last_action: "2024-09-22"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/61c760f2-f5e3-4cdd-8aae-68d8c951b088"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB938"
source_hash: "547e258019a9c2b4f09e4c924fa0cdfd7b5e78d9b3c5ddf098d120b752a7bcc8"
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 938 (20232024) — Education finance: classified and certificated staff salaries.

Existing law, commencing with the 2013–14 fiscal year, establishes a public school financing system that requires state funding for county superintendents of schools, school districts, and charter schools to be calculated pursuant to a local control funding formula, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB938&version=20230AB93899INT)
2. **04/07/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB938&version=20230AB93898AMD)
3. **05/01/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB938&version=20230AB93897AMD)
4. **06/21/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB938&version=20230AB93896AMD)
5. **07/13/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB938&version=20230AB93895AMD)
6. **08/15/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB938&version=20230AB93894AMD)
7. **08/23/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB938&version=20230AB93892AMD)
8. **09/01/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB938&version=20230AB93893AMD)
9. **09/22/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB938&version=20230AB93890CHP)
10. **AB938** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB938)
11. **08/31/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB938&version=20230AB93891ENR)

## Votes

- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 938 Muratsuchi Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 938 Muratsuchi Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **13–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Labor, Public Employment and Retirement ] — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB938 Muratsuchi et al. By Newman — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Muratsuchi — primary (person)
- Juan Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Portantino — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
- **2023-02-23** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-10** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-27** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 26). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-01** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-02** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-10** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 18). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-05-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-06-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2126.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-06-01** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-06-14** Referred to Coms. on ED. and L., P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-26** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2023-07-05** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L., P.E. & R. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 5). Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-12** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (July 12). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-13** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-08-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-08-21** In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2023-09-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (September 1). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2023-09-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-07** Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Newman.
- **2024-08-23** From inactive file.
- **2024-08-23** Ordered to second reading.
- **2024-08-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2024-08-28** Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
- **2024-08-28** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2024-09-22** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-22** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 345, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/61c760f2-f5e3-4cdd-8aae-68d8c951b088`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).