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Bill	California State University: examinations: undue hardship.	Existing law establishes the California State University, which is administered by the Trustees of the California State University. Existing law requires the state universities, in administering any test or examination, to permit any student who is eligible to undergo the test or examination to do so, without penalty, at a time when that activity would not violate the student's religious creed, except when it would impose an undue hardship that could not reasonably have been avoided.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 668	California AB 668 (20112012)	bill	California State University: examinations: undue hardship.	enacted	Block	6	22	8	2011-02-17	2011-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/27fb2edb-f44f-480c-945c-f4eb6da27bcf	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB668	ddc077fffc23132b4792c51adc93ec51ab8d83a7c1477b4aff7af48cca60c1b6	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 668 (20112012) — California State University: examinations: undue hardship.

Existing law establishes the California State University, which is administered by the Trustees of the California State University. Existing law requires the state universities, in administering any test or examination, to permit any student who is eligible to undergo the test or examination to do so, without penalty, at a time when that activity would not violate the student's religious creed, except when it would impose an undue hardship that could not reasonably have been avoided.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/15/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/08/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB668 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/09/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB668 Block By Lowenthal — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 668 BLOCK Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 668 BLOCK Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Block — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2011-03-25 Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2011-03-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-03-30 Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2011-05-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-12 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1451.) 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 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-27 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2011-08-15 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
• 2011-08-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (August 25). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2192.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-01 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2011-09-06 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2912.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-14 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2011-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 613, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/27fb2edb-f44f-480c-945c-f4eb6da27bcf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).