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Bill	English learners: participation in standard instructional program.	Existing law requires each school district that has one or more pupils who are English learners, and, to the extent required by federal law, each county office of education and each charter school, to assess the English language development of each pupil in order to determine the pupil's level of proficiency, as specified, and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to review existing assessments that assess the English language development of pupils whose primary language is a language other than English.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2735	California AB 2735 (20172018)	bill	English learners: participation in standard instructional program.	enacted	O'Donnell	8	25	6	2018-02-15	2018-09-07	openstates	ocd-bill/e7feb781-1242-4c20-8603-61106e6e47bf	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2735	e6930eec5e64bb6f1880fc31e0b8927dcb5f5aed8121ef04c1e515fb8d87d6fe	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2735 (20172018) — English learners: participation in standard instructional program.

Existing law requires each school district that has one or more pupils who are English learners, and, to the extent required by federal law, each county office of education and each charter school, to assess the English language development of each pupil in order to determine the pupil's level of proficiency, as specified, and requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to review existing assessments that assess the English language development of pupils whose primary language is a language other than English.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/18/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/13/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/20/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/13/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/07/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2735 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/24/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2735 O'DONNELL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2735 O'DONNELL Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2735 O'Donnell et al. By Hueso — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• O'Donnell — primary (person)
• Bonta — author (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez Fletcher — author (person)
• Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
• Hueso — principal coauthor (person)
• Kamlager-Dove — coauthor (person)
• McCarty — coauthor (person)
• Nguyen — coauthor (person)
• Reyes — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2018-03-08 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2018-04-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-18 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-04-19 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-05-02 Coauthors revised.
• 2018-05-02 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-03 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5132.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-10 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-05-24 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2018-06-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 6). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-06-20 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-25 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2018-06-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-13 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-20 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5449.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-20 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 22 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-23 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6500.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-29 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2018-09-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 304, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e7feb781-1242-4c20-8603-61106e6e47bf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).