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type: "Bill"
title: "Pupil discipline: suspensions and expulsions: willful defiance."
description: "Existing law prohibits a pupil from being suspended from school or recommended for expulsion, unless the superintendent of the school district or the principal of the school in which the pupil is enrolled determines that the pupil has committed a specified act, including, among other acts, disrupting school activities or otherwise willfully defying the valid authority of supervisors, teachers, administrators, school officials, or other school personnel engaged in the performance of their duties."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 420"
citation: "California AB 420 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Pupil discipline: suspensions and expulsions: willful defiance."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Dickinson"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 29
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2013-02-15"
last_action: "2014-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f4471baf-9da6-480f-9303-4176725a6631"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB420"
source_hash: "ba35b8911b6eff5c437673336a60571882ba5f50cfb3d6e777eb83715b75b340"
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 420 (20132014) — Pupil discipline: suspensions and expulsions: willful defiance.
Existing law prohibits a pupil from being suspended from school or recommended for expulsion, unless the superintendent of the school district or the principal of the school in which the pupil is enrolled determines that the pupil has committed a specified act, including, among other acts, disrupting school activities or otherwise willfully defying the valid authority of supervisors, teachers, administrators, school officials, or other school personnel engaged in the performance of their duties.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/15/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB420&version=20130AB42099INT)
2. **04/10/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB420&version=20130AB42098AMD)
3. **05/24/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB420&version=20130AB42097AMD)
4. **06/19/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB420&version=20130AB42096AMD)
5. **08/05/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB420&version=20130AB42095AMD)
6. **08/13/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB420&version=20130AB42094AMD)
7. **09/27/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB420&version=20130AB42092CHP)
8. **AB420** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB420)
9. **08/22/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB420&version=20130AB42093ENR)
## Votes
- 3rd Reading AB420 Dickinson By Block — **248** (pass) · upper
- AB 420 DICKINSON Assembly Third Reading — **5223** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **116** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **71** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **60** (pass) · lower
- AB 420 DICKINSON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **6216** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Dickinson — primary (person)
- Alejo — coauthor (person)
- Ammiano — coauthor (person)
- Brown — coauthor (person)
- John A. Pérez — coauthor (person)
- Leno — coauthor (person)
- V. Manuel Pérez — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2013-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2013-02-28** 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. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-01** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-24** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 6.) (May 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-24** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2013-05-28** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 52. Noes 23. Page 1808.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-06-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-06-13** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-19** 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`
- **2013-06-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (June 26). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-06-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-09-04** Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Liu.
- **2014-08-05** From inactive file.
- **2014-08-05** Ordered to second reading.
- **2014-08-05** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-13** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-14** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 8. Page 4611.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-19** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-08-21** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 16. Page 6270.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-09-04** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2014-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 660, Statutes of 2014.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f4471baf-9da6-480f-9303-4176725a6631`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).