republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20152016/ab-496.md

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Bill	Pupil nutrition: fresh drinking water: funding.	Existing law requires a school district to provide access to free, fresh drinking water during meal times in the food service areas of the schools under its jurisdiction, unless the governing board of the school district adopts a resolution stating that it is unable to comply with that requirement, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 496	California AB 496 (20152016)	bill	Pupil nutrition: fresh drinking water: funding.	enacted	Rendon	9	31	7	2015-02-23	2015-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/7a422bb9-c2d8-4186-8ba5-6107ca5305a2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB496	d177724f6e2c1a1236233a0c7fc77a5d3131ea1f3eba166730fe478734002586	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 496 (20152016) — Pupil nutrition: fresh drinking water: funding.

Existing law requires a school district to provide access to free, fresh drinking water during meal times in the food service areas of the schools under its jurisdiction, unless the governing board of the school district adopts a resolution stating that it is unable to comply with that requirement, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/23/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/13/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/04/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/28/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/24/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/31/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/09/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB496 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/09/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Environmental Quality] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 496 RENDON Assembly Third Reading — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 496 RENDON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB496 Rendon By Leyva — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 17–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Rendon — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-23 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2015-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
• 2015-03-05 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2015-04-08 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2015-04-13 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
• 2015-04-14 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2015-04-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 22). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-05-04 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-05-05 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2015-05-13 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2015-05-28 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 28). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-05-28 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 1856.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2015-06-18 Referred to Coms. on ED. and E.Q. referral-committee
• 2015-07-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on E.Q. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-07-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-08-17 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2015-08-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-08-31 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2409.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-02 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 4 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2015-09-03 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2859.)
• 2015-09-03 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2868.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2015-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 664, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7a422bb9-c2d8-4186-8ba5-6107ca5305a2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).