republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/19992000/ab-2429.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education of prisoners."
description: "Education of prisoners."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 2429"
citation: "California AB 2429 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education of prisoners."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wildman"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 22
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2000-02-24"
last_action: "2000-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e1dc8c6f-1683-4e9c-893e-2c42e7aae6ec"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2429"
source_hash: "673dd503ba22cb25a6e68661b634446ecde8e9f42eef108fea7bf772bcd5ae5e"
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 2429 (19992000) — Education of prisoners.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/24/00 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2429&version=19990AB242999INT)
2. **06/20/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2429&version=19990AB242998AMD)
3. **08/07/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2429&version=19990AB242997AMD)
4. **08/18/00 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2429&version=19990AB242996AMD)
5. **09/26/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2429&version=19990AB242994CHP)
6. **AB2429** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2429)
7. **08/31/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB2429&version=19990AB242995ENR)

## Votes

- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- SPECIAL CONSENT CALE AB2429 Wildman — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2429 WILDMAN SPEC. CONSENT CALENDAR FIRST DAY CONCURRENCE — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2429 WILDMAN 3RD READING URGENCY — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wildman — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2000-09-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 640, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-09-24** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-09-14** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2000-08-31** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 74. Noes 1. Page 9031.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2000-08-30** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2000-08-30** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 6350.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-08-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-08-22** Joint Rule 61 (b)(14) suspended.
- **2000-08-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-08-07** In committee: Placed on Appropriations suspense file.
- **2000-08-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-07-06** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2000-06-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Education. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-06-08** Referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2000-05-31** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2000-05-30** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6745.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-05-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (May 24). Read second time. To third reading. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-05-03** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2000-04-13** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 12). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2000-03-23** Referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2000-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
- **2000-02-24** Assembly Rule 49(a) suspended. Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e1dc8c6f-1683-4e9c-893e-2c42e7aae6ec`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).