republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-174.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "School district reorganization."
description: "(1) Existing law defines an action to reorganize school districts as an action to form, dissolve, or lapse a school district, to annex all or part of the territory of a district to another district, to transfer all or part of a district to another district, the unification or deunification of a school district, or to otherwise alter the boundaries of a school district, or any combination of those actions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 174"
citation: "California AB 174 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["School district reorganization."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Carter"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 26
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2009-01-29"
last_action: "2009-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/59a69199-0745-4510-a883-a5d4d0caf70f"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB174"
source_hash: "7fb9250cc9bd2acb9611c5ec2560e820002ad7586722ec547abafa152722a7ac"
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 174 (20092010) — School district reorganization.

(1) Existing law defines an action to reorganize school districts as an action to form, dissolve, or lapse a school district, to annex all or part of the territory of a district to another district, to transfer all or part of a district to another district, the unification or deunification of a school district, or to otherwise alter the boundaries of a school district, or any combination of those actions.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/29/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB174&version=20090AB17499INT)
2. **07/08/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB174&version=20090AB17498AMD)
3. **07/15/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB174&version=20090AB17497AMD)
4. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB174&version=20090AB17495CHP)
5. **AB174** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB174)
6. **08/26/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB174&version=20090AB17496ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #14 AB174 Carter — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 174 CARTER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 174 CARTER Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Rules. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Natural Resources. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Carter — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-01-29** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-01-30** From printer. May be heard in committee March 1.
- **2009-03-04** Referred to Coms. on ED. and NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-19** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. Re-referred. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (March 18). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-04-14** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-04-30** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-04** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-11** From Consent Calendar. To third reading.
- **2009-05-14** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1446.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-14** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-05-21** Referred to Coms. on ED. and RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-17** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on RLS. Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-06-25** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2009-07-06** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2009-07-08** 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, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2009-07-14** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and be amended. `amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-07-15** Read second time, amended, and to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-07-15** Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2009-08-17** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 1843.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-08-17** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 19 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2009-08-24** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2703.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-08-28** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2009-09-08** Returned by the Governor at the request of the Assembly.
- **2009-09-25** Enrolled and to the Governor at 5 p.m.
- **2009-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 314, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/59a69199-0745-4510-a883-a5d4d0caf70f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).