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Bill	Academic content standards: English language development standards.	(1) Existing law requires each school district that has one or more pupils who are English learners and, to the extent required by federal law, each county office of education and each charter school to assess the English language development of each of those pupils upon initial enrollment in order to determine the level of proficiency of those pupils, and thereafter to assess each of those pupils annually until the pupil is redesignated as English proficient.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 899	California AB 899 (20132014)	bill	Academic content standards: English language development standards.	enacted	Weber	11	31	8	2013-02-22	2013-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/274f3a79-f9cf-41ba-bab0-1e1e4fc0f2b7	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB899	169ea66ed424bc620f4142ef4e50c5f0fedd40ae995079402f318f54e068c458	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 899 (20132014) — Academic content standards: English language development standards.

(1) Existing law requires each school district that has one or more pupils who are English learners and, to the extent required by federal law, each county office of education and each charter school to assess the English language development of each of those pupils upon initial enrollment in order to determine the level of proficiency of those pupils, and thereafter to assess each of those pupils annually until the pupil is redesignated as English proficient.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/25/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/06/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/24/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/26/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/11/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/03/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/06/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 10/10/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB899 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/20/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 899 WEBER Assembly Third Reading — 72–5 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB899 Weber By Padilla — 37–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 899 WEBER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Weber — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-22 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2013-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
• 2013-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2013-03-07 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2013-04-03 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2013-04-25 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
• 2013-04-29 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2013-05-02 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (May 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-06 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-07 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2013-05-15 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.) (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
• 2013-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 5. Page 1756.) 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 Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2013-06-26 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
• 2013-07-10 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-07-11 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2013-08-13 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2013-08-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-03 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 1. Page 2356.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-09-11 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2013-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 1. Page 3300.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2013-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 709, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/274f3a79-f9cf-41ba-bab0-1e1e4fc0f2b7. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).