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Bill	School districts: employees: dismissal or suspension administrative proceedings: testimony of minor witnesses: pupil contact information.	(1) Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary education in this state. Under this system, school districts throughout the state provide instruction in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, at schoolsites. Existing law establishes school districts throughout the state, and authorizes them to employ certificated personnel to provide instruction and classified personnel to provide other services. Existing law establishes procedures to be followed in the event that a school proposes to dismiss or suspend a certificated employee. Existing law also authorizes hearings and investigations of the conduct of classified personnel to be conducted by personnel commissions in school districts that have adopted a merit system.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2234	California AB 2234 (20172018)	bill	School districts: employees: dismissal or suspension administrative proceedings: testimony of minor witnesses: pupil contact information.	enacted	Jones-Sawyer	10	32	10	2018-02-13	2018-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/11b51c1a-8319-49c0-8753-0b3b0abdf977	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2234	38224929b495f91f55d08f8f850e2df93b097cfee22f36cd4b259da3aa8edeaf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2234 (20172018) — School districts: employees: dismissal or suspension administrative proceedings: testimony of minor witnesses: pupil contact information.

(1) Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary education in this state. Under this system, school districts throughout the state provide instruction in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, at schoolsites. Existing law establishes school districts throughout the state, and authorizes them to employ certificated personnel to provide instruction and classified personnel to provide other services. Existing law establishes procedures to be followed in the event that a school proposes to dismiss or suspend a certificated employee. Existing law also authorizes hearings and investigations of the conduct of classified personnel to be conducted by personnel commissions in school districts that have adopted a merit system.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/03/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/16/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/30/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/25/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/14/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/03/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/30/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB2234 (committee substitute) — source
10. 08/31/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2234 JONES-SAWYER Assembly Third Reading — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent AB2234 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2234 JONES-SAWYER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Jones-Sawyer — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2018-03-01 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2018-04-03 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-04-04 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2018-04-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-16 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-04-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-30 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-05-01 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-05-16 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-05-25 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-05-25 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-05-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5625.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-06-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-06-13 Referred to Coms. on ED. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-06-14 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-07-02 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-07-03 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-08-06 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-08-17 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-21 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2018-08-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5703.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-24 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6817.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 996, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/11b51c1a-8319-49c0-8753-0b3b0abdf977. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).