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type: "Bill"
title: "Retroactive grant of high school diplomas: COVID-19 crisis."
description: "Existing law authorizes a high school district, unified school district, county office of education, or the governing body of a charter school to retroactively grant a high school diploma to persons under specified conditions, including, among others, a person who was interned by order of the federal government during World War II."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1350"
citation: "California AB 1350 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Retroactive grant of high school diplomas: COVID-19 crisis."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gonzalez"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 26
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2019-02-22"
last_action: "2020-09-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/bc55e25b-ec4b-483a-985f-391ec5335426"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1350"
source_hash: "dc41cdca20b7ff8695fecd9be28c05137524073f2badbdaad0cb0e42c105163f"
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 1350 (20192020) — Retroactive grant of high school diplomas: COVID-19 crisis.
Existing law authorizes a high school district, unified school district, county office of education, or the governing body of a charter school to retroactively grant a high school diploma to persons under specified conditions, including, among others, a person who was interned by order of the federal government during World War II.
## 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=201920200AB1350&version=20190AB135099INT)
2. **01/06/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1350&version=20190AB135097AMD)
3. **01/15/20 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1350&version=20190AB135096AMD)
4. **03/26/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1350&version=20190AB135098AMD)
5. **06/17/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1350&version=20190AB135095AMD)
6. **08/01/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1350&version=20190AB135094AMD)
7. **09/11/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1350&version=20190AB135092CHP)
8. **AB1350** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1350)
9. **09/01/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1350&version=20190AB135093ENR)
## Votes
- AB 1350 Gonzalez Assembly Third Reading — **750** (pass) · lower
- AB 1350 Gonzalez Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **750** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB1350 — **390** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **180** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **150** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Gonzalez — 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`
- **2019-03-25** Referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-03-27** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on TRANS. Read second time and amended. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-01-07** Re-referred to Com. on TRANS. `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-14** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (January 13). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-01-15** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-01-16** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2020-01-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (January 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-01-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-01-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 3896.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-01-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2020-06-17** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2020-06-17** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on RLS. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-07-01** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2020-07-31** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 29). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-08-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered to consent calendar. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-08-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4373.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2020-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5321.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-09-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2020-09-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-09-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 66, Statutes of 2020.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/bc55e25b-ec4b-483a-985f-391ec5335426`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).