republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-677.md

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Bill	Data collection: sexual orientation.	(1) Existing law relating to elementary and secondary education instruction prohibits the administration, as specified, of a test, questionnaire, survey, or examination that contains any questions about a pupil's personal beliefs or practices in sex, family life, morality, and religion, or any questions about the pupils parents' or guardians' beliefs and practices in those areas unless the pupil's parent or guardian gives written permission. Existing law authorizes local educational agencies granted specific funding to submit pupil data to an operator of an after school program or summer program regarding the results of certain survey information in aggregate form.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 677	California AB 677 (20172018)	bill	Data collection: sexual orientation.	enacted	Chiu	10	31	9	2017-02-15	2017-10-13	openstates	ocd-bill/96c4972b-8e19-49de-b5ae-4984ca238db5	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB677	6312e6c6d59ca6126b35fd4d0ed732e2bbd86d0e0ab07996505dfdae9527b27c	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 677 (20172018) — Data collection: sexual orientation.

(1) Existing law relating to elementary and secondary education instruction prohibits the administration, as specified, of a test, questionnaire, survey, or examination that contains any questions about a pupil's personal beliefs or practices in sex, family life, morality, and religion, or any questions about the pupils parents' or guardians' beliefs and practices in those areas unless the pupil's parent or guardian gives written permission. Existing law authorizes local educational agencies granted specific funding to submit pupil data to an operator of an after school program or summer program regarding the results of certain survey information in aggregate form.

Version chain

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

1. 02/15/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/30/17 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/29/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/05/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/19/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/01/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/13/17 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB677 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/13/17 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 677 CHIU Assembly Third Reading — 63–10 (pass) · lower
• AB 677 CHIU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 63–10 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB677 Chiu et al. By Wiener — 29–11 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Rules] — 10–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 13–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chiu — primary (person)
• Eggman — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-02-15 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2017-02-16 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2017-03-02 Referred to Com. on A. & A.R. referral-committee
• 2017-03-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-03-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-03-30 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2017-04-05 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2017-05-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 13. Noes 4.) (May 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-05-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2017-05-30 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 52. Noes 24. Page 1776.)
• 2017-05-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2017-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 10. Page 1972.) 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 G.O. referral-committee
• 2017-06-29 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-05 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on RLS. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2017-07-13 Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. (Ayes 37. Noes 1. Page 2013.)
• 2017-07-13 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2017-07-18 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 13). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2017-07-19 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 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
• 2017-09-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 11. Page 2574.). 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 63. Noes 10. Page 3132.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2017-09-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2017-10-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2017-10-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 744, Statutes of 2017.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/96c4972b-8e19-49de-b5ae-4984ca238db5. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).