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Bill	School districts: governing boards: pupil members: preferential voting.	(1) Existing law requires the governing board of a school district maintaining one or more high schools to appoint to its membership one or more nonvoting pupil members if pupils submit a petition to the governing board to make those appointments, as provided. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to allow for preferential voting, as defined, for the pupil member or members of the governing board upon receipt of a petition for that purpose.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 261	California AB 261 (20172018)	bill	School districts: governing boards: pupil members: preferential voting.	enacted	Thurmond	6	24	5	2017-01-31	2017-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/2277a161-b431-43d3-8a34-ac9b290ae5e9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB261	149cf45f421da73c2f8f0439a8b58ae41d18b411d4ead343caeb582651565c8f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 261 (20172018) — School districts: governing boards: pupil members: preferential voting.

(1) Existing law requires the governing board of a school district maintaining one or more high schools to appoint to its membership one or more nonvoting pupil members if pupils submit a petition to the governing board to make those appointments, as provided. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to allow for preferential voting, as defined, for the pupil member or members of the governing board upon receipt of a petition for that purpose.

Version chain

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

1. 01/31/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/23/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/17/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/23/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB261 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/07/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 261 THURMOND Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 261 THURMOND Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB261 Thurmond By Leyva — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Thurmond — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-31 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-01 From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
• 2017-03-23 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2017-03-23 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
• 2017-03-27 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2017-04-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-04-26 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-04-27 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1388.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-05-04 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-05-18 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2017-06-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 7). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-06-26 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage
• 2017-06-27 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-06-29 From Consent Calendar.
• 2017-06-29 Ordered to third reading.
• 2017-07-17 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2017-07-18 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2307.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-08-31 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-09-05 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2917.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-12 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2017-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 257, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2277a161-b431-43d3-8a34-ac9b290ae5e9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).