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Bill	Public school employee organizations: unelected members: paid leaves of absence.	Existing law requires that the governing board of a school district or a community college district grant to any classified employee, upon request, a paid leave of absence to enable the employee to serve as an elected officer of any school district public employee organization or community college district public employee organization, as specified. Existing law requires that following the school district's or community college district's payment of the employee for the leave of absence, it be reimbursed by the employee organization of which the employee is an elected officer for all compensation paid to the employee on account of the leave.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1203	California AB 1203 (20112012)	bill	Public school employee organizations: unelected members: paid leaves of absence.	enacted	Mendoza	8	33	7	2011-02-18	2012-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/db113968-cff0-4956-a703-771a14682fe5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1203	5a8a849995ff0f442d3a5426a2465c9ebb16b81b14ae01b09a467c158149d5ef	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1203 (20112012) — Public school employee organizations: unelected members: paid leaves of absence.

Existing law requires that the governing board of a school district or a community college district grant to any classified employee, upon request, a paid leave of absence to enable the employee to serve as an elected officer of any school district public employee organization or community college district public employee organization, as specified. Existing law requires that following the school district's or community college district's payment of the employee for the leave of absence, it be reimbursed by the employee organization of which the employee is an elected officer for all compensation paid to the employee on account of the leave.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/27/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/11/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/22/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/23/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/30/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1203 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/10/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 4–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 3–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 1203 MENDOZA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 49–27 (pass) · lower
• AB 1203 MENDOZA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 49–28 (pass) · lower
• AB 1203 MENDOZA Assembly Third Reading — 50–23 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1203 Mendoza By Leno — 22–14 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB1203 Mendoza By Negrete McLeod — 23–13 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Mendoza — primary (person)
• Lara — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2011-03-21 Referred to Com. on P.E., R. & S.S. referral-committee
• 2011-04-26 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (April 13). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-27 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-04-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 50. Noes 23. Page 1239.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-05 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-05-19 Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2011-06-28 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) (June 27). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-07-11 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-07-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 13. Page 2132.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2011-09-02 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 49. Noes 27. Page 2849.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-09 Withdrawn from Engrossing and Enrolling.
• 2011-09-09 Action rescinded whereby the Assembly concurred in Senate amendments.
• 2011-09-09 Ordered to the Senate.
• 2011-09-09 In Senate. Held at Desk.
• 2012-08-23 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. reading-3, passage
• 2012-08-23 Ordered to third reading.
• 2012-08-23 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-28 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 14. Page 4889.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-29 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6488.)
• 2012-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 49. Noes 28. Page 6530.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:35 p.m.
• 2012-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 804, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/db113968-cff0-4956-a703-771a14682fe5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).