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Bill	Instructional materials.	Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt basic instructional materials for use in kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, and authorizes the state board to establish criteria for that purpose. Existing law requires the state board in reviewing and adopting instructional materials to use specified criteria and ensure that, in its judgment, the submitted instructional materials meet all of the specified criteria.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 140	California SB 140 (20112012)	bill	Instructional materials.	enacted	Lowenthal	9	28	8	2011-01-31	2011-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/4adbcdf6-f38b-4d77-8f5f-79ccafe88122	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB140	367de88bdc41f686332d1ad06920633058469ed3fe72e9c4df69e6ecfff8c8ec	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 140 (20112012) — Instructional materials.

Existing law requires the State Board of Education to adopt basic instructional materials for use in kindergarten and grades 1 to 8, inclusive, and authorizes the state board to establish criteria for that purpose. Existing law requires the state board in reviewing and adopting instructional materials to use specified criteria and ensure that, in its judgment, the submitted instructional materials meet all of the specified criteria.

Version chain

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

1. 01/31/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/24/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/29/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/13/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/15/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/26/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/08/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB140 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/02/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 6–2 (pass) · upper
• SB 140 Lowenthal Senate Third Reading By FUENTES — 53–24 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 26–12 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB140 Lowenthal Concurrence — 25–14 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Lowenthal — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-01-31 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2011-02-01 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 3.
• 2011-02-10 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2011-03-08 Set for hearing March 16.
• 2011-03-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 1. Page 360.) (March 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-01 Set for hearing April 11.
• 2011-04-11 Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2011-05-20 Set for hearing May 26.
• 2011-05-24 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-05-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 2. Page 1113.) (May 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 12. Page 1222.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2011-06-16 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2011-06-29 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
• 2011-07-12 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (July 6). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-08-15 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-08-17 Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2011-08-26 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 53. Noes 24. Page 2744.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-08-31 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2011-09-01 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 25. Noes 14. Page 2239.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 9:45 a.m.
• 2011-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 623, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4adbcdf6-f38b-4d77-8f5f-79ccafe88122. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).