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Bill	Limited Examination and Appointment Program: persons with developmental disabilities.	Existing law requires the Department of Human Resources to administer the Limited Examination and Appointment Program (LEAP) to provide an alternative to the traditional civil service examination and appointment process to facilitate the hiring of persons with disabilities in the state civil services. Existing law requires the department to conduct competitive examinations to determine eligibility for appointment under LEAP and to refer the names of eligible applicants who meet the minimum qualifications of a job classification to the appointing powers for examination appointments, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	SB 644	California SB 644 (20152016)	bill	Limited Examination and Appointment Program: persons with developmental disabilities.	enacted	Hancock	8	27	8	2015-02-27	2015-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/9d5acf56-c1cf-430d-a560-695d9f9868cd	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160SB644	ffdc3e48fdf7dc31844dc5c63ce529848863e8b79bd21bd04939eb4594d68f80	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 644 (20152016) — Limited Examination and Appointment Program: persons with developmental disabilities.

Existing law requires the Department of Human Resources to administer the Limited Examination and Appointment Program (LEAP) to provide an alternative to the traditional civil service examination and appointment process to facilitate the hiring of persons with disabilities in the state civil services. Existing law requires the department to conduct competitive examinations to determine eligibility for appointment under LEAP and to refer the names of eligible applicants who meet the minimum qualifications of a job classification to the appointing powers for examination appointments, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/27/15 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/07/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/01/15 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/30/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/28/15 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/28/15 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB644 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/04/15 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB644 Hancock Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 644 Hancock Senate Third Reading By RENDON — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hancock — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2015-02-27 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2015-03-02 From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 1.
• 2015-03-02 Read first time. reading-1
• 2015-03-12 Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. referral-committee
• 2015-03-25 Set for hearing April 13.
• 2015-04-07 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P.E. & R. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-04-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 593.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-04-17 Set for hearing April 27.
• 2015-04-27 April 27 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2015-05-23 Set for hearing May 28.
• 2015-05-28 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1158.) (May 28). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-06-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-06-02 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1256.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2015-06-18 Referred to Com. on P.E., R., & S.S. referral-committee
• 2015-06-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2015-06-30 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2015-07-15 July 15 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2015-08-28 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2015-08-28 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-08-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2015-09-02 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2784.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2015-09-02 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2015-09-03 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2444.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2015-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2015-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2015-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 356, Statutes of 2015.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9d5acf56-c1cf-430d-a560-695d9f9868cd. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).