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Bill	School safety: Carl Washington School Safety and Violence Prevention Act.	Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that public schools have access to supplemental resources to combat bias on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation, as defined, and to prevent and respond to acts of hate violence and bias-related incidents. A provision of existing law prohibits the term sexual orientation from including pedophilia.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 401	California AB 401 (20112012)	bill	School safety: Carl Washington School Safety and Violence Prevention Act.	enacted	Ammiano	9	28	6	2011-02-14	2012-09-19	openstates	ocd-bill/7b645937-50fc-4d0f-843e-2a70f24a5a00	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB401	c0d39a2d2eb30568cacde49415c9295020e2c7b73e5be877cc8d06eeb170a0dc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 401 (20112012) — School safety: Carl Washington School Safety and Violence Prevention Act.

Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that public schools have access to supplemental resources to combat bias on the basis of race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation, as defined, and to prevent and respond to acts of hate violence and bias-related incidents. A provision of existing law prohibits the term sexual orientation from including pedophilia.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/26/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/26/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/09/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/12/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/14/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/19/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB401 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/10/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• amendments be concurred in. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB401 Ammiano By Lowenthal — 36–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 6–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 401 AMMIANO Assembly Third Reading — 45–29 (pass) · lower
• AB 401 AMMIANO Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 58–20 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ammiano — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-14 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-15 From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
• 2011-02-24 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2011-03-30 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-04-25 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 3.) (April 13). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-04-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-12 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1337.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 45. Noes 29. Page 1457.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-19 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-02 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2011-06-15 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-06-30 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-04-26 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-05-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-14 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 2. Page 4589.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-20 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-21 Re-referred to Com. on ED. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2012-08-27 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 6357.)
• 2012-08-28 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 28). committee-passage
• 2012-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 20. Page 6495.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:35 p.m.
• 2012-09-19 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-19 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 387, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7b645937-50fc-4d0f-843e-2a70f24a5a00. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).