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Bill	Bilingual services: implementation plans.	The Dymally-Alatorre Bilingual Services Act requires each state agency to conduct a survey, related to its bilingual services, of each of its local offices every 2 years to determine specified information, and to report results and any additional information requested to the Department of Human Resources. The act requires each agency that serves a substantial number of non-English-speaking people who comprise 5% or more of the people served to develop an implementation plan, as specified, in every odd-numbered year, and to submit the implementation plan to the department for its review. The act authorizes the department, if it determines that a state agency has not made reasonable progress toward complying with the act, to issue orders that it deems appropriate to effectuate the purposes of the act.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 2253	California AB 2253 (20132014)	bill	Bilingual services: implementation plans.	enacted	Ting	5	22	6	2014-02-21	2014-09-19	openstates	ocd-bill/b12841d5-a34c-4409-a589-bf98f6f2ce9d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2253	cc547fb9180a2d3d6f95a54e8e3cebb292d7e6a02b805fa648df4cee3c77e835	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2253 (20132014) — Bilingual services: implementation plans.

The Dymally-Alatorre Bilingual Services Act requires each state agency to conduct a survey, related to its bilingual services, of each of its local offices every 2 years to determine specified information, and to report results and any additional information requested to the Department of Human Resources. The act requires each agency that serves a substantial number of non-English-speaking people who comprise 5% or more of the people served to develop an implementation plan, as specified, in every odd-numbered year, and to submit the implementation plan to the department for its review. The act authorizes the department, if it determines that a state agency has not made reasonable progress toward complying with the act, to issue orders that it deems appropriate to effectuate the purposes of the act.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/10/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/19/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB2253 (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/21/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2253 TING Assembly Third Reading — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — 10–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ting — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-21 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2014-02-23 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2014-02-24 Read first time. reading-1
• 2014-03-06 Referred to Com. on A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2014-03-26 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2014-04-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on A. & A.R. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-21 Re-referred to Com. on A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2014-04-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (April 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-05-14 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2014-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-05-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5185.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-27 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-06-05 Referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2014-06-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-08-05 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 4). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-08-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-18 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4556.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-18 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2014-09-04 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2014-09-19 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-19 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 469, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b12841d5-a34c-4409-a589-bf98f6f2ce9d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).