republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-1593.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pupil attendance: excused absences: naturalization ceremony."
description: "Existing law requires a pupil to be excused from school for specified types of absences and prohibits those excused absences from generating state apportionment payments by deeming them as absences in computing average daily attendance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 1593"
citation: "California AB 1593 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Pupil attendance: excused absences: naturalization ceremony."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Obernolte"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2016-01-06"
last_action: "2016-07-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a78a8227-bd84-43bb-966b-da9f3265b559"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1593"
source_hash: "126f3f05c455399a4321ec24f1305a25249466cd311926564bece4b3fafed659"
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 1593 (20152016) — Pupil attendance: excused absences: naturalization ceremony.

Existing law requires a pupil to be excused from school for specified types of absences and prohibits those excused absences from generating state apportionment payments by deeming them as absences in computing average daily attendance.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/06/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1593&version=20150AB159399INT)
2. **03/29/16 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1593&version=20150AB159398AMD)
3. **07/25/16 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1593&version=20150AB159396CHP)
4. **AB1593** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1593)
5. **07/07/16 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1593&version=20150AB159397ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1593 OBERNOLTE Consent Calendar Second Day — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **37–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **20–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Obernolte — primary (person)
- Alejo — author (person)
- Anderson — coauthor (person)
- Baker — coauthor (person)
- Bates — coauthor (person)
- Cannella — coauthor (person)
- Chang — coauthor (person)
- Chávez — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Fuller — coauthor (person)
- Gallagher — coauthor (person)
- Hadley — coauthor (person)
- Kim — coauthor (person)
- Lackey — coauthor (person)
- Leno — coauthor (person)
- Linder — coauthor (person)
- Mayes — coauthor (person)
- Morrell — coauthor (person)
- Mullin — coauthor (person)
- Patterson — coauthor (person)
- Runner — coauthor (person)
- Travis Allen — coauthor (person)
- Vidak — coauthor (person)
- Wagner — coauthor (person)
- Wilk — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-01-06** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2016-01-07** From printer. May be heard in committee February 6.
- **2016-02-01** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2016-03-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2016-03-30** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2016-04-07** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-13** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (April 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-04-14** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-04-21** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 4461.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-04-21** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2016-05-05** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2016-06-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2016-06-20** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2016-06-21** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2016-06-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4647.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2016-06-30** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2016-07-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2016-07-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2016-07-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 92, Statutes of 2016.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a78a8227-bd84-43bb-966b-da9f3265b559`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).