republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/sb-1292.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "School employees: principals: evaluation."
description: "Existing law establishes the Administrator Training Program, to be administered by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the approval of the State Board of Education. Existing law requires the Superintendent to award incentive funding from funds appropriated for that purpose, to provide instruction and training to school administrators in various areas, including, among others, school financial and personnel management, instructional leadership and management strategies, and the use of state and local pupil assessments. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that local educational agencies give highest priority to training school administrators assigned to, and practicing in, high-priority or hard-to-staff schools."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "SB 1292"
citation: "California SB 1292 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["School employees: principals: evaluation."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Liu"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2012-02-23"
last_action: "2012-09-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8b91a1a3-2fc8-4765-b516-57de8bd1291b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1292"
source_hash: "ffe8c33528699dc849c1d4cce507f31f45b67c4eee61b255168a1b159a0e07b7"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California SB 1292 (20112012) — School employees: principals: evaluation.

Existing law establishes the Administrator Training Program, to be administered by the Superintendent of Public Instruction, with the approval of the State Board of Education. Existing law requires the Superintendent to award incentive funding from funds appropriated for that purpose, to provide instruction and training to school administrators in various areas, including, among others, school financial and personnel management, instructional leadership and management strategies, and the use of state and local pupil assessments. Existing law states the intent of the Legislature that local educational agencies give highest priority to training school administrators assigned to, and practicing in, high-priority or hard-to-staff schools.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/23/12 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1292&version=20110SB129299INT)
2. **04/16/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1292&version=20110SB129298AMD)
3. **05/02/12 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1292&version=20110SB129297AMD)
4. **06/20/12 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1292&version=20110SB129296AMD)
5. **09/21/12 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1292&version=20110SB129294CHP)
6. **SB1292** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1292)
7. **08/27/12 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1292&version=20110SB129295ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **7–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **12–5** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB1292 Liu Concurrence — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 1292 Liu Senate Third Reading By BONILLA — **65–12** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Liu — primary (person)
- Alquist — coauthor (person)
- Bonilla — principal coauthor (person)
- Lowenthal — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2012-02-23** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2012-02-24** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 25.
- **2012-03-08** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2012-03-29** Set for hearing April 18.
- **2012-04-11** Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2012-04-13** Set for hearing April 25.
- **2012-04-16** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-05-01** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3302.) (April 25). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-05-02** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2012-05-07** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 3430.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-05-07** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2012-05-17** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2012-06-19** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (June 13). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-06-20** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2012-08-08** Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2012-08-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 16). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2012-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2012-08-21** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 65. Noes 12. Page 6069.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2012-08-21** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2012-08-23** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4762.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2012-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2012-09-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2012-09-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 435, Statutes of 2012.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8b91a1a3-2fc8-4765-b516-57de8bd1291b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).