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Bill	Instructional materials.	(1) Existing law authorizes local educational agencies to use specified funds for any educational purpose, as provided, and requires instructional materials purchased by such a local educational agency to be materials adopted by the State Board of Education and be aligned with state standards, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1246	California AB 1246 (20112012)	bill	Instructional materials.	enacted	Brownley	11	31	8	2011-02-18	2012-09-27	openstates	ocd-bill/48a16dc2-87ba-478a-8887-552a21136f39	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1246	cf6fe16712e6971ad36e90e98cc64d9aa90b8c0c41abb713866e326060e65cdb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1246 (20112012) — Instructional materials.

(1) Existing law authorizes local educational agencies to use specified funds for any educational purpose, as provided, and requires instructional materials purchased by such a local educational agency to be materials adopted by the State Board of Education and be aligned with state standards, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/04/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 01/23/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/06/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/06/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/21/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/24/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/30/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/27/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB1246 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/11/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 1246 BROWNLEY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 53–27 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• AB 1246 BROWNLEY Assembly Third Reading — 50–27 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–4 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1246 Brownley By Lowenthal — 23–11 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Brownley — primary (person)
• Lowenthal — 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 ED. referral-committee
• 2011-08-30 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-31 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2012-01-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-01-05 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2012-01-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 4.) (January 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-01-19 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2012-01-19 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (January 19). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-01-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-01-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-01-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 50. Noes 27. Page 3627.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-01-31 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-02-16 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2012-06-06 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-07-05 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (June 27). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-07-06 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-06 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-08-06 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2012-08-20 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-21 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 11. Page 4926.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 31 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-30 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6605.)
• 2012-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 53. Noes 27. Page 6627.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:15 p.m.
• 2012-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 668, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/48a16dc2-87ba-478a-8887-552a21136f39. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).