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Bill	California Civil Liberties Public Education Act.	The California Civil Liberties Public Education Act establishes a grant program, administered by the State Librarian, for the stated purpose of sponsoring educational activities and the development of educational materials to ensure that the events surrounding the exclusion, forced removal, and internment of citizens and permanent residents of Japanese ancestry will be remembered and so that the causes and circumstances of this and similar events may be illuminated and understood. The act requires the State Librarian to select as grant recipients applicants who meet certain criteria, and the act lists criteria that grant applicants are encouraged to meet. The act provides a list of entities that are eligible to apply for a grant. The act provides that funding for the grant program is subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act or other measure.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 491	California AB 491 (20172018)	bill	California Civil Liberties Public Education Act.	enacted	Muratsuchi	7	26	7	2017-02-13	2017-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/b1aed918-d924-49e8-bc25-d29b92178fd2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB491	5a746633abf4337225f23866fca07f7f18c3ee4a78099a8033dbf12ec470bd91	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 491 (20172018) — California Civil Liberties Public Education Act.

The California Civil Liberties Public Education Act establishes a grant program, administered by the State Librarian, for the stated purpose of sponsoring educational activities and the development of educational materials to ensure that the events surrounding the exclusion, forced removal, and internment of citizens and permanent residents of Japanese ancestry will be remembered and so that the causes and circumstances of this and similar events may be illuminated and understood. The act requires the State Librarian to select as grant recipients applicants who meet certain criteria, and the act lists criteria that grant applicants are encouraged to meet. The act provides a list of entities that are eligible to apply for a grant. The act provides that funding for the grant program is subject to an appropriation in the annual Budget Act or other measure.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/03/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/03/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/01/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/26/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB491 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/15/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB491 Muratsuchi By Pan — 28–10 (pass) · upper
• AB 491 MURATSUCHI Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 62–11 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 491 MURATSUCHI Assembly Third Reading — 73–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Muratsuchi — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2017-02-27 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2017-03-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 22). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-04-03 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-04-04 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-04-26 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-05-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 26). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2017-05-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1894.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2017-06-14 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2017-06-26 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2017-07-03 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
• 2017-07-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-08-21 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-09-01 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 1). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-09-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 2685.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 14 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2017-09-13 Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Page 3254.)
• 2017-09-13 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 62. Noes 11. Page 3286.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2017-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 292, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b1aed918-d924-49e8-bc25-d29b92178fd2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).