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Bill	Charter schools: location: resource center.	(1) Existing law authorizes a charter school that is unable to locate within the jurisdiction or geographic boundaries of the chartering school district to establish one site outside the boundaries of the school district, but within the county in which that school district is located, if the school district where the charter school proposes to operate is notified in advance of the charter petition approval, the county superintendent of schools is notified of the location of the charter school before it commences operations, and either the charter school has attempted to locate a single site or facility to house the entire program, but a site or facility is unavailable in the area in which the school chooses to locate, or the site is needed for temporary use during a construction or expansion project.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 1507	California AB 1507 (20192020)	bill	Charter schools: location: resource center.	enacted	Smith	11	29	7	2019-02-22	2019-10-03	openstates	ocd-bill/889e9fc5-d3ae-40c3-bf38-a1324df20ebf	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1507	3ee8c662d40063d9eacab7452cc4629120deaf91ba2f2a0224961162661d7faf	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1507 (20192020) — Charter schools: location: resource center.

(1) Existing law authorizes a charter school that is unable to locate within the jurisdiction or geographic boundaries of the chartering school district to establish one site outside the boundaries of the school district, but within the county in which that school district is located, if the school district where the charter school proposes to operate is notified in advance of the charter petition approval, the county superintendent of schools is notified of the location of the charter school before it commences operations, and either the charter school has attempted to locate a single site or facility to house the entire program, but a site or facility is unavailable in the area in which the school chooses to locate, or the site is needed for temporary use during a construction or expansion project.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/26/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/22/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/09/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/01/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/13/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/30/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/05/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 10/03/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB1507 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/18/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–3 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 4–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 1507 Smith Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 57–17 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1507 Smith et al. By Leyva — 25–12 (pass) · upper
• AB 1507 Smith Assembly Third Reading — 54–18 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 5–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Smith — primary (person)
• Kalra — principal coauthor (person)
• McCarty — author (person)
• O'Donnell — author (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
• 2019-03-14 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2019-03-26 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
• 2019-03-27 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2019-04-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (April 10). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-22 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-09 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1563.) amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 18. Page 1616.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-14 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-22 Referred to Coms. on ED. and APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-07-01 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
• 2019-08-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 3.) (July 10). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-08-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-19 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-08-22 Measure version as amended on August 13 corrected. amendment-passage
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 30). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-05 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 12. Page 2836.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-11 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2019-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 57. Noes 17. Page 3482.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-03 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-03 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 487, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/889e9fc5-d3ae-40c3-bf38-a1324df20ebf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).