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Bill	School districts: truancy.	Existing law defines a truant as any pupil subject to compulsory full-time education or to compulsory continuation education who is absent from school without a valid excuse 3 full days in one school year, or tardy or absent for more than any 30-minute period during the schoolday without a valid excuse on 3 occasions in one school year, or any combination thereof. Existing law specifies that a pupil who is required to be reported as a truant is subject to specified penalties for the first through 4th instances that a truancy report is issued to a pupil.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 2616	California AB 2616 (20112012)	bill	School districts: truancy.	enacted	Carter	9	33	7	2012-02-24	2012-09-21	openstates	ocd-bill/af9dab94-5b19-4a76-afa5-e6e9c2084719	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB2616	df426917f44b3c072fa10c30fadf29114c69f7f49d2573b2a6091068e0dbe442	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2616 (20112012) — School districts: truancy.

Existing law defines a truant as any pupil subject to compulsory full-time education or to compulsory continuation education who is absent from school without a valid excuse 3 full days in one school year, or tardy or absent for more than any 30-minute period during the schoolday without a valid excuse on 3 occasions in one school year, or any combination thereof. Existing law specifies that a pupil who is required to be reported as a truant is subject to specified penalties for the first through 4th instances that a truancy report is issued to a pupil.

Version chain

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

1. 02/24/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/18/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/02/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/09/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/06/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/21/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2616 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/07/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2616 CARTER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2616 CARTER Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent #16 — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Carter — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-24 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2012-02-26 From printer. May be heard in committee March 27.
• 2012-02-27 Read first time. reading-1
• 2012-03-29 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2012-03-29 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
• 2012-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2012-04-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-04-18 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-04-18 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
• 2012-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2012-05-01 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-02 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-03 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-05-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-10 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-05-16 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2012-05-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 25). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-30 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5096.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-31 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-06-14 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2012-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 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
• 2012-08-07 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 6). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-15 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2012-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4784.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-27 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6357.)
• 2012-08-28 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6427.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:30 p.m.
• 2012-09-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 432, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/af9dab94-5b19-4a76-afa5-e6e9c2084719. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).