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Bill	Continuation schools: policies and procedures: voluntary placement.	Existing law establishes continuation schools to provide opportunities for pupils to complete the required academic courses of instruction to graduate from high school, to provide a program of instruction that emphasizes occupational orientation or a work-study schedule and offers intensive guidance services to meet the special needs of pupils, and to provide a program designed to meet the educational needs of each pupil, as specified. Existing law requires the governing board of each high school or unified school district that assigns pupils to continuation schools to adopt rules and regulations governing procedures for the involuntary transfer of pupils to continuation schools.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 570	California AB 570 (20132014)	bill	Continuation schools: policies and procedures: voluntary placement.	enacted	Jones-Sawyer	10	28	7	2013-02-20	2013-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/5375143d-5e76-4111-a8ac-bfcf8984685a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB570	51b5f45e6501f6a7b52d2a5027e2cbe7aa9f17ea1dd4aba3688338171686cf7e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 570 (20132014) — Continuation schools: policies and procedures: voluntary placement.

Existing law establishes continuation schools to provide opportunities for pupils to complete the required academic courses of instruction to graduate from high school, to provide a program of instruction that emphasizes occupational orientation or a work-study schedule and offers intensive guidance services to meet the special needs of pupils, and to provide a program designed to meet the educational needs of each pupil, as specified. Existing law requires the governing board of each high school or unified school district that assigns pupils to continuation schools to adopt rules and regulations governing procedures for the involuntary transfer of pupils to continuation schools.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/14/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/25/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/24/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/13/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/19/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/03/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/26/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB570 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/05/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB570 Jones-Sawyer By Lara — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 570 JONES-SAWYER Assembly Third Reading — 76–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 570 JONES-SAWYER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jones-Sawyer — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2013-03-04 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
• 2013-04-03 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2013-04-24 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 17). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-04-25 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-04-29 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2013-05-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2013-05-24 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) . 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
• 2013-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 1. Page 1746.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-06-13 Referred to Coms. on ED. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2013-06-13 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
• 2013-06-19 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
• 2013-07-02 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-07-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-08-13 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 12). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-08-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-08-26 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1978.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-08-26 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2013-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2774.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2013-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 365, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5375143d-5e76-4111-a8ac-bfcf8984685a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).