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Bill	Teaching credential: American Indian language-culture credential.	Existing law authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, among other things, to establish professional standards, assessments, and examinations for entry and advancement in the education profession. Existing law requires the commission, upon recommendation by a tribal government of a federally recognized Indian tribe in California, to issue an American Indian languages credential to a candidate who has demonstrated fluency in that tribal language and met other requirements.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 163	California AB 163 (20152016)	bill	Teaching credential: American Indian language-culture credential.	enacted	Williams	5	19	5	2015-01-21	2015-07-13	openstates	ocd-bill/3366965c-d1c8-440e-b368-f7f4b4f38db0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB163	6e06dce168acc5b28fdb1be0e6a02a381af04bf9163a7bd9b8b12276e89ccae0	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 163 (20152016) — Teaching credential: American Indian language-culture credential.

Existing law authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing, among other things, to establish professional standards, assessments, and examinations for entry and advancement in the education profession. Existing law requires the commission, upon recommendation by a tribal government of a federally recognized Indian tribe in California, to issue an American Indian languages credential to a candidate who has demonstrated fluency in that tribal language and met other requirements.

Version chain

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

1. 01/21/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/16/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/13/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB163 (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/29/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (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 — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 163 WILLIAMS Consent Calendar Second Day — 78–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Williams — primary (person)
• Alejo — principal coauthor (person)
• Bigelow — coauthor (person)
• Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Linder — coauthor (person)
• Roger Hernández — coauthor (person)
• Wilk — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-01-21 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-01-22 From printer. May be heard in committee February 21.
• 2015-02-02 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2015-03-16 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
• 2015-03-17 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2015-03-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-15 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 15). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-16 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-04-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1108.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-05-07 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2015-06-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-06-22 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
• 2015-06-23 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 1619.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-25 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2015-07-01 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2015-07-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-07-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 64, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3366965c-d1c8-440e-b368-f7f4b4f38db0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).