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type: "Bill"
title: "School admissions: pupil residency: pupils of departed parents: residents of adjoining state or foreign country: school district reimbursement."
description: "(1) Existing law requires each person between 6 and 18 years of age not otherwise exempted to attend the public full-time day school or continuation school or classes in the school district where the person's parent or legal guardian is located. Existing law provides that a pupil is deemed to have complied with the residency requirements for school attendance in a school district if the pupil satisfies one of specified requirements."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "SB 257"
citation: "California SB 257 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["School admissions: pupil residency: pupils of departed parents: residents of adjoining state or foreign country: school district reimbursement."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lara"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 33
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2017-02-07"
last_action: "2017-10-05"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4b2010d8-3784-4ee8-b208-d4402250bdc3"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB257"
source_hash: "bd21075b6e74233e96b332cc97091e1bd3c82e4de118a6502941a8148fa33a9c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California SB 257 (20172018) — School admissions: pupil residency: pupils of departed parents: residents of adjoining state or foreign country: school district reimbursement.
(1) Existing law requires each person between 6 and 18 years of age not otherwise exempted to attend the public full-time day school or continuation school or classes in the school district where the person's parent or legal guardian is located. Existing law provides that a pupil is deemed to have complied with the residency requirements for school attendance in a school district if the pupil satisfies one of specified requirements.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/07/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB257&version=20170SB25799INT)
2. **04/04/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB257&version=20170SB25798AMD)
3. **05/03/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB257&version=20170SB25797AMD)
4. **05/26/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB257&version=20170SB25796AMD)
5. **07/18/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB257&version=20170SB25795AMD)
6. **08/21/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB257&version=20170SB25794AMD)
7. **09/08/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB257&version=20170SB25793AMD)
8. **10/05/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB257&version=20170SB25791CHP)
9. **SB257** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB257)
10. **09/15/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB257&version=20170SB25792ENR)
## Votes
- SB 257 Lara Senate Third Reading By REYES — **6111** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **115** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB257 Lara Concurrence — **317** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading — **316** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **60** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Lara — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-07** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2017-02-08** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 10.
- **2017-02-08** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2017-02-16** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-23** Set for hearing March 15.
- **2017-03-06** March 15 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2017-04-04** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2017-04-07** Set for hearing April 26.
- **2017-05-02** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 847.) (April 26). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2017-05-03** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2017-05-05** Set for hearing May 15.
- **2017-05-15** May 15 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2017-05-19** Set for hearing May 25.
- **2017-05-25** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1180.) (May 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2017-05-26** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-05-26** Published May 26 at 10 a.m.
- **2017-06-01** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 1387.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-06-01** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2017-06-15** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2017-07-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-07-18** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2017-08-21** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2017-08-23** August 23 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2017-09-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 5.) (September 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-09-08** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-09-08** Ordered to third reading.
- **2017-09-12** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 61. Noes 11. Page 3204.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-09-13** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2017-09-13** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 7. Page 2839.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-09-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2017-10-05** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-10-05** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 498, Statutes of 2017.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4b2010d8-3784-4ee8-b208-d4402250bdc3`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).