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Bill	Special education: English learners: manual.	Existing law requires local educational agencies to actively and systematically seek out all individuals with exceptional needs, from birth to 21 years of age, inclusive, including children not enrolled in public school programs, who reside in a school district or are under the jurisdiction of a special education local plan area or a county office of education.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2785	California AB 2785 (20152016)	bill	Special education: English learners: manual.	enacted	O'Donnell	8	29	8	2016-02-19	2016-09-24	openstates	ocd-bill/a4f44968-b93f-492d-af70-111ecb6cfb22	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2785	9a7bd8c532ea4e0a705447772f643d5a5316847689d36ee72dfbd3fe9e6eb522	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2785 (20152016) — Special education: English learners: manual.

Existing law requires local educational agencies to actively and systematically seek out all individuals with exceptional needs, from birth to 21 years of age, inclusive, including children not enrolled in public school programs, who reside in a school district or are under the jurisdiction of a special education local plan area or a county office of education.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/17/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/07/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/27/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/01/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/24/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2785 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/25/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2785 O'Donnell By Lara — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2785 O'DONNELL Assembly Third Reading — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2785 O'DONNELL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• O'Donnell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2016-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2016-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2016-03-17 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2016-03-17 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
• 2016-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2016-04-07 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
• 2016-04-11 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2016-04-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 20). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-04-27 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-28 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-05-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-05-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 5043.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2016-06-13 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2016-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-01 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-17 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5064.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-17 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 19 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-23 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6152.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-31 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-09-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 579, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a4f44968-b93f-492d-af70-111ecb6cfb22. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).