republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-1599.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education: omnibus bill."
description: "(1) Existing law sets forth a method for providing special education and related services to pupils with exceptional needs. Existing law requires the allowable new building area for the purpose of providing special day class and Resource Specialist Program facilities for special education pupils to be negotiated and approved by the State Allocation Board, as provided. Existing law prescribes the maximum square footage for those facilities by special day class basic need, including, among other basic needs, the maximum square footage for mildly mentally retarded and severely mentally retarded special education pupils."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1599"
citation: "California AB 1599 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education: omnibus bill."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Committee on Education"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2014-02-05"
last_action: "2014-09-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/77104d32-f292-47b8-868d-8819cbdfe979"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1599"
source_hash: "92039a952d586ed1e3eeb73677946afe47854bdc3f49c36add3b5e7aef88b9f5"
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 AB 1599 (20132014) — Education: omnibus bill.

(1) Existing law sets forth a method for providing special education and related services to pupils with exceptional needs. Existing law requires the allowable new building area for the purpose of providing special day class and Resource Specialist Program facilities for special education pupils to be negotiated and approved by the State Allocation Board, as provided. Existing law prescribes the maximum square footage for those facilities by special day class basic need, including, among other basic needs, the maximum square footage for mildly mentally retarded and severely mentally retarded special education pupils.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/05/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1599&version=20130AB159999INT)
2. **03/20/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1599&version=20130AB159998AMD)
3. **04/23/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1599&version=20130AB159997AMD)
4. **06/18/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1599&version=20130AB159996AMD)
5. **07/02/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1599&version=20130AB159995AMD)
6. **08/22/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1599&version=20130AB159994AMD)
7. **09/15/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1599&version=20130AB159992CHP)
8. **AB1599** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1599)
9. **09/03/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1599&version=20130AB159993ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB1599 Committee on ED. (Buchanan) By Liu — **34–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1599 ED. Concurrence in Senate Amendments By BUCHANAN — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1599 ED. Consent Calendar Second Day — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, 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

- Committee on Education — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-05** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-06** From printer. May be heard in committee March 8.
- **2014-03-20** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-20** 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`
- **2014-03-24** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-23** 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`
- **2014-04-24** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-01** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-07** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 7). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-08** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 4971.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-15** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-22** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-07-01** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-07-02** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-08-04** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2014-08-05** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-07** From consent calendar.
- **2014-08-07** Ordered to third reading.
- **2014-08-22** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 4859.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-26** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-08-27** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6550.)
- **2014-08-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6560.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-09-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2014-09-15** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-15** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 327, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/77104d32-f292-47b8-868d-8819cbdfe979`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).