Existing law provides for the administration of a general educational development test. Existing law authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide the test to, among others, persons confined in certain hospitals or correctional institutions. Existing law authorizes the Superintendent to grant a waiver to a county office of education to provide a general educational development test preparation program, not to exceed one hour per schoolday, as part of any other instructional program during the regular schoolday to certain of these confined persons.
California AB 1176 (20172018) — High school equivalency tests.
Existing law provides for the administration of a general educational development test. Existing law authorizes the Superintendent of Public Instruction to provide the test to, among others, persons confined in certain hospitals or correctional institutions. Existing law authorizes the Superintendent to grant a waiver to a county office of education to provide a general educational development test preparation program, not to exceed one hour per schoolday, as part of any other instructional program during the regular schoolday to certain of these confined persons.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
Special Consent Calendar # AB1176 — 40–0 (pass) · upper
AB 1176 MULLIN Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Mullin — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2017-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2017-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
2017-03-09 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
2017-04-17 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 5). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
2017-04-18 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
2017-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
2017-05-03 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2017-05-04 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2017-05-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1483.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
2017-05-11 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2017-05-24 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
2017-06-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2017-06-26 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
2017-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (September 1). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2017-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2017-09-12 Ordered to special consent calendar.
2017-09-14 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2908.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
2017-09-14 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
2017-09-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
2017-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2017-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 663, Statutes of 2017.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4b418802-1363-47c8-9bff-e7214ff98c99. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).