republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20192020/ab-1303.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "School facilities: Civic Center Act: direct costs."
description: "The Civic Center Act authorizes, and in some instances requires, the governing board of a school district to allow the use of school facilities or grounds as a civic center, for specified purposes. The act authorizes or requires, as applicable, the governing board of a school district to charge a fee, not to exceed the school district's direct costs, as defined, for use of its school facilities or grounds. Existing law, until January 1, 2020, defines direct costs that the governing board of a school district may or must charge an entity for the use of school facilities or grounds to include a specified share of the operating and maintenance costs proportional to the entity's use of the school facilities or grounds under this provision and a share of the costs for maintenance, repair, restoration, and refurbishment of the school facilities or grounds proportional to that entity's use of the school facilities or grounds, as specified."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1303"
citation: "California AB 1303 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["School facilities: Civic Center Act: direct costs."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["O'Donnell"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 28
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2019-02-22"
last_action: "2019-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/3328bc56-f064-489e-b214-a77de435cf9b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1303"
source_hash: "1b7ded948b6d8affd18a8607e8280cd234d0776053d339633149a1f5771beaee"
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 AB 1303 (20192020) — School facilities: Civic Center Act: direct costs.

The Civic Center Act authorizes, and in some instances requires, the governing board of a school district to allow the use of school facilities or grounds as a civic center, for specified purposes. The act authorizes or requires, as applicable, the governing board of a school district to charge a fee, not to exceed the school district's direct costs, as defined, for use of its school facilities or grounds. Existing law, until January 1, 2020, defines direct costs that the governing board of a school district may or must charge an entity for the use of school facilities or grounds to include a specified share of the operating and maintenance costs proportional to the entity's use of the school facilities or grounds under this provision and a share of the costs for maintenance, repair, restoration, and refurbishment of the school facilities or grounds proportional to that entity's use of the school facilities or grounds, as specified.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1303&version=20190AB130399INT)
2. **04/01/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1303&version=20190AB130398AMD)
3. **06/24/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1303&version=20190AB130397AMD)
4. **10/07/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1303&version=20190AB130395CHP)
5. **AB1303** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1303)
6. **09/17/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1303&version=20190AB130396ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent AB1303 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 1303 O'Donnell Assembly Third Reading — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1303 O'Donnell Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- O'Donnell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-22** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2019-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2019-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-11** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-04-02** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-03** Measure version as amended on April 1 corrected. `amendment-passage`
- **2019-04-11** Coauthors revised.
- **2019-04-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-05-01** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-16** Coauthors revised.
- **2019-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 2079.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-06-12** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-07-03** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 3). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-07-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-08-19** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2019-08-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2244.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-08-22** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 24 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2019-08-26** Re-referred to Com. on ED. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. `referral-committee`
- **2019-09-11** From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (September 11). `committee-passage`
- **2019-09-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3478.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2019-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 541, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/3328bc56-f064-489e-b214-a77de435cf9b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).