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Bill	Pupil assessment: grade 2 diagnostic assessments.	Existing law, the Leroy Greene California Assessment of Academic Achievement Act, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to design and implement a statewide pupil assessment program that includes numerous elements, including, among other things, a plan for producing valid, reliable, and comparable individual pupil scores in grades 2 to 11, inclusive. The act also requires school districts, charter schools, and county offices of education to administer to each of its pupils in grades 2 to 11, inclusive, certain achievement tests, including a standards-based achievement test pursuant to the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program. Existing law makes all provisions of the act inoperative on July 1, 2014. Assembly Bill 484 of the 2013–14 Regular Session, if enacted, would, among other things, suspend the STAR Program achievement test for pupils in grade 2 commencing with the 2013–14 school year.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	SB 247	California SB 247 (20132014)	bill	Pupil assessment: grade 2 diagnostic assessments.	enacted	Liu	6	24	8	2013-02-12	2013-10-02	openstates	ocd-bill/a89aca5f-2951-4a13-91a0-9f0f8c6e9504	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140SB247	773618d2e1256d166b76a5c9bd76658997e3f8e721cea8e801549efd6a9972ec	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 247 (20132014) — Pupil assessment: grade 2 diagnostic assessments.

Existing law, the Leroy Greene California Assessment of Academic Achievement Act, requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to design and implement a statewide pupil assessment program that includes numerous elements, including, among other things, a plan for producing valid, reliable, and comparable individual pupil scores in grades 2 to 11, inclusive. The act also requires school districts, charter schools, and county offices of education to administer to each of its pupils in grades 2 to 11, inclusive, certain achievement tests, including a standards-based achievement test pursuant to the Standardized Testing and Reporting (STAR) Program. Existing law makes all provisions of the act inoperative on July 1, 2014. Assembly Bill 484 of the 2013–14 Regular Session, if enacted, would, among other things, suspend the STAR Program achievement test for pupils in grade 2 commencing with the 2013–14 school year.

Version chain

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

1. 02/12/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/24/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/03/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/02/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB247 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/11/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB247 Liu Concurrence — 33–4 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 247 Liu Senate Third Reading By BONILLA — 58–17 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 27–11 (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Liu — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-12 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. reading-1, introduction
• 2013-02-13 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 15.
• 2013-02-21 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2013-03-15 Set for hearing April 10.
• 2013-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 483.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-04-12 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2013-04-22 Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2013-05-17 Set for hearing May 23.
• 2013-05-23 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1009.) (May 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-24 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-05-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 11. Page 1113.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-29 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2013-06-14 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2013-06-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-08-14 Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2013-08-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-03 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-09-09 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 58. Noes 17. Page 3014.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-09-09 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2013-09-10 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 33. Noes 4. Page 2284.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 7 p.m.
• 2013-10-02 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-10-02 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 479, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a89aca5f-2951-4a13-91a0-9f0f8c6e9504. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).