republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-23.md

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Bill	Educational programs: single gender schools and classes.	Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to initiate and carry on any program or activity, or to otherwise act in any manner which is not in conflict or inconsistent with, or preempted by, any law and which is not in conflict with the purposes for which school districts are established.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 23	California AB 23 (20172018)	bill	Educational programs: single gender schools and classes.	enacted	Ridley-Thomas	9	26	2	2016-12-05	2017-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/43c3f870-f5d8-4c37-bc94-11365d6b6a6d	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB23	8176a9068b64395edddb20c537f05e8b682c0983c94c52e1cb20bf49bdc68476	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 23 (20172018) — Educational programs: single gender schools and classes.

Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to initiate and carry on any program or activity, or to otherwise act in any manner which is not in conflict or inconsistent with, or preempted by, any law and which is not in conflict with the purposes for which school districts are established.

Version chain

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

1. 12/05/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/31/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/27/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/30/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/22/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/30/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/11/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB23 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/13/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 23 RIDLEY-THOMAS Third Reading Urgency — 72–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ridley-Thomas — primary (person)
• Anderson — coauthor (person)
• Mitchell — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-12-05 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-12-06 From printer. May be heard in committee January 5.
• 2017-01-19 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2017-01-31 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
• 2017-02-01 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2017-03-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 15). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-03-27 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-03-28 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-30 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 47. Noes 22. Page 1854.) amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-06-01 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 1. Page 2036.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-05 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-21 Referred to Coms. on ED. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2017-07-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 5). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-08-21 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 18). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-08-22 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-08-23 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. referral-committee
• 2017-08-28 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2017-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-08-30 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-07 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2571.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-07 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3128.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2017-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 654, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/43c3f870-f5d8-4c37-bc94-11365d6b6a6d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).