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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Educational equity: immigration and citizenship status."
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description: "Existing law states the policy of the State of California to afford all persons in public schools, regardless of their disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other specified characteristic, equal rights and opportunities in the educational institutions of the state. Existing law prohibits discrimination on the basis of those specific characteristics in any program or activity conducted by an educational institution that receives, or benefits from, state financial assistance or enrolls pupils who receive state student financial aid. Existing law requires the State Department of Education to assess whether local educational agencies have taken certain actions related to educational equity, including adopting a policy that prohibits, and adopting a process for receiving and investigating complaints of, discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying based on those actual or perceived specified characteristics."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20172018"
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identifier: "AB 699"
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citation: "California AB 699 (20172018)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Educational equity: immigration and citizenship status."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["O'Donnell"]
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version_count: 10
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action_count: 32
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vote_count: 6
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first_action: "2017-02-15"
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last_action: "2017-10-05"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f9d4e3fe-628d-4223-8214-29b6065349ff"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB699"
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source_hash: "c0c86735feeab0b86744620278311bf514bc11f0c2bad83918fb9d6c00f8a6e0"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 699 (20172018) — Educational equity: immigration and citizenship status.
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Existing law states the policy of the State of California to afford all persons in public schools, regardless of their disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other specified characteristic, equal rights and opportunities in the educational institutions of the state. Existing law prohibits discrimination on the basis of those specific characteristics in any program or activity conducted by an educational institution that receives, or benefits from, state financial assistance or enrolls pupils who receive state student financial aid. Existing law requires the State Department of Education to assess whether local educational agencies have taken certain actions related to educational equity, including adopting a policy that prohibits, and adopting a process for receiving and investigating complaints of, discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying based on those actual or perceived specified characteristics.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/15/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB699&version=20170AB69999INT)
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2. **03/28/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB699&version=20170AB69998AMD)
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3. **04/24/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB699&version=20170AB69997AMD)
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4. **05/30/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB699&version=20170AB69996AMD)
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5. **07/03/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB699&version=20170AB69995AMD)
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6. **09/01/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB699&version=20170AB69994AMD)
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7. **09/08/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB699&version=20170AB69993AMD)
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8. **10/05/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB699&version=20170AB69991CHP)
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9. **AB699** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB699)
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10. **09/19/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB699&version=20170AB69992ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Education] — **4–1** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended — **5–2** (pass) · upper
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- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 699 O'DONNELL Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **60–13** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading AB699 O'Donnell et al. By Mendoza — **31–6** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- O'Donnell — primary (person)
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- Chiu — author (person)
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- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
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- Daly — coauthor (person)
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- Gipson — coauthor (person)
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- Gloria — coauthor (person)
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- Kalra — author (person)
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- Mendoza — coauthor (person)
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- Santiago — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2017-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
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- **2017-03-02** Referred to Coms. on ED. and JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2017-03-28** 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`
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- **2017-03-29** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
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- **2017-04-06** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 5). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2017-04-20** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 1.) (April 18). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2017-04-24** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
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- **2017-04-25** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
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- **2017-05-03** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2017-05-26** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 26). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2017-05-30** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
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- **2017-05-30** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 52. Noes 24. Page 1776.)
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- **2017-05-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2017-06-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 60. Noes 13. Page 2070.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2017-06-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2017-06-14** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and ED. `referral-committee`
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- **2017-06-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on ED. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **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`
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- **2017-07-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
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- **2017-08-21** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2017-09-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 1). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
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- **2017-09-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
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- **2017-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2017-09-08** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
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- **2017-09-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2017-09-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 2853.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2017-09-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
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- **2017-09-15** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 13. Page 3451.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
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- **2017-09-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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- **2017-10-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2017-10-05** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 493, Statutes of 2017.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f9d4e3fe-628d-4223-8214-29b6065349ff`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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