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Bill	Education finance: school facilities: Public Preschool, K-12, and College Health and Safety Bond Act of 2020.	(1) Existing law authorizes the governing board of any school district or community college district to order an election and submit to the electors of the district the question of whether the bonds of the district shall be issued and sold to raise money for specified purposes. Existing law generally requires, to pass a school bond measure, that either at least 23 of the votes cast on the proposition of issuing bonds be in favor of issuing the bonds to pass the measure, or, if certain conditions are met, at least 55% of the votes cast on the proposition of issuing bonds be in favor of issuing the bonds. Existing law prohibits the total amount of bonds issued by a school district or community college district from exceeding 1.25% of the taxable property of the district, as provided.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 48	California AB 48 (20192020)	bill	Education finance: school facilities: Public Preschool K-12 and College Health and Safety Bond Act of 2020.	enacted	O'Donnell	12	45	12	2018-12-03	2019-10-07	openstates	ocd-bill/d9ee2fcc-60fb-4230-b2b3-9e7bccc8c294	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB48	063eb8cef2278ed93fbd916f98ad76ed94d1d6a6dc9cb73bc84d3a11def3729f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 48 (20192020) — Education finance: school facilities: Public Preschool, K-12, and College Health and Safety Bond Act of 2020.

(1) Existing law authorizes the governing board of any school district or community college district to order an election and submit to the electors of the district the question of whether the bonds of the district shall be issued and sold to raise money for specified purposes. Existing law generally requires, to pass a school bond measure, that either at least 23 of the votes cast on the proposition of issuing bonds be in favor of issuing the bonds to pass the measure, or, if certain conditions are met, at least 55% of the votes cast on the proposition of issuing bonds be in favor of issuing the bonds. Existing law prohibits the total amount of bonds issued by a school district or community college district from exceeding 1.25% of the taxable property of the district, as provided.

Version chain

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

1. 12/03/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/28/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/01/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/11/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/24/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 05/17/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/13/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 07/08/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/10/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10. 10/07/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
11. AB48 (committee substitute) — source
12. 09/20/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB48 O'Donnell et al. — 35–4 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Rules] — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Higher Education] — 5–0 (pass) · lower
• That the measure be returned to Senate Floor for consideration. Ordered to third reading. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 48 O'Donnell Assembly Third Reading — 69–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governance and Finance] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 48 O'Donnell Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–1 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• O'Donnell — primary (person)
• Allen — coauthor (person)
• Atkins — principal coauthor (person)
• Cooley — coauthor (person)
• Cunningham — coauthor (person)
• Diep — coauthor (person)
• Durazo — coauthor (person)
• Eggman — coauthor (person)
• Gabriel — coauthor (person)
• Glazer — author (person)
• Gloria — coauthor (person)
• Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
• Hurtado — coauthor (person)
• Kalra — coauthor (person)
• Leyva — coauthor (person)
• Low — coauthor (person)
• McGuire — coauthor (person)
• Medina — coauthor (person)
• Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
• Nazarian — coauthor (person)
• Pan — coauthor (person)
• Portantino — coauthor (person)
• Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
• Rendon — principal coauthor (person)
• Robert Rivas — coauthor (person)
• Roth — coauthor (person)
• Skinner — coauthor (person)
• Stern — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-12-03 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-12-04 From printer. May be heard in committee January 3.
• 2019-01-24 Referred to Coms. on ED. and HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2019-01-28 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
• 2019-01-29 Re-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
• 2019-04-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-11 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-05-01 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2019-05-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-05-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-24 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 1. Page 1973.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Coms. on ED. and GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2019-06-13 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
• 2019-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-05 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (July 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-07-08 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
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 30). Re-referred to Com. on RLS. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-09-09 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2019-09-09 Ordered to second reading.
• 2019-09-09 (Ayes 29. Noes 7. Page 2691.)
• 2019-09-10 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-10 Joint Rule 61 suspended. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 2745.)
• 2019-09-10 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-11 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(b). referral-committee
• 2019-09-11 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on ED. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(b). (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) Re-referred to Com. on ED. committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-09-12 From committee: That the measure be returned to Senate Floor for consideration. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (September 12) committee-passage
• 2019-09-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 4. Page 2934.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-13 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2019-09-13 Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. referral-committee
• 2019-09-13 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3575.)
• 2019-09-13 From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (September 13). committee-passage
• 2019-09-14 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 1. Page 3617.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2019-10-07 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-07 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 530, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d9ee2fcc-60fb-4230-b2b3-9e7bccc8c294. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).