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Bill	Pupil instruction: civics.	Existing law requires the Instructional Quality Commission to review and revise, as necessary, the course requirements in the history-social science framework to ensure that minimum standards for courses in American government and civics include certain matters.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 137	California AB 137 (20132014)	bill	Pupil instruction: civics.	enacted	Buchanan	8	24	6	2013-01-16	2013-09-06	openstates	ocd-bill/5b902aa2-10d8-4fe0-a32f-fa370d7c3b60	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB137	f061a37093b738cb9ce8173efbd56f3fe00f4270984fcc42bf60e173e1188135	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 137 (20132014) — Pupil instruction: civics.

Existing law requires the Instructional Quality Commission to review and revise, as necessary, the course requirements in the history-social science framework to ensure that minimum standards for courses in American government and civics include certain matters.

Version chain

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

1. 01/16/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/14/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/10/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/06/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/19/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/06/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB137 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/27/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB137 Buchanan By Yee — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 137 BUCHANAN Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 137 BUCHANAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Buchanan — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-01-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-01-17 From printer. May be heard in committee February 16.
• 2013-03-14 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2013-03-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-03-18 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2013-04-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2013-04-18 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-05-02 From committee: Do pass as amended. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-06 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-07 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1345.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-09 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-05-23 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2013-06-18 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-06-19 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-07-01 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2013-07-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-08-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1881.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-08-19 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2013-08-22 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2646.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-08-29 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2013-09-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-09-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 225, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5b902aa2-10d8-4fe0-a32f-fa370d7c3b60. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).