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Bill	School districts: governing boards: pupil members.	(1) Existing law requires the governing board of a school district maintaining one or more high schools to appoint to its membership one or more pupil members if pupils submit a petition to the governing board to make those appointments, as provided. Existing law gives each pupil member, among other things, the right to attend each and all meetings of the governing board of the school district, except executive sessions, and requires a pupil member to be seated with the members of the governing board of the school district and recognized as a full member of the governing board at the meetings, including receiving all open meeting materials presented to the board members at the same time the materials are presented to the board members.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 709	California AB 709 (20192020)	bill	School districts: governing boards: pupil members.	enacted	Bonta	8	33	8	2019-02-19	2019-10-02	openstates	ocd-bill/020f30b0-5d8f-4a7d-aac6-48893c81b36f	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB709	9d783b075171f815706d5a12420355d8a55b3cdd2b78a61b6de6551a0c0341f7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 709 (20192020) — School districts: governing boards: pupil members.

(1) Existing law requires the governing board of a school district maintaining one or more high schools to appoint to its membership one or more pupil members if pupils submit a petition to the governing board to make those appointments, as provided. Existing law gives each pupil member, among other things, the right to attend each and all meetings of the governing board of the school district, except executive sessions, and requires a pupil member to be seated with the members of the governing board of the school district and recognized as a full member of the governing board at the meetings, including receiving all open meeting materials presented to the board members at the same time the materials are presented to the board members.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/19/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/12/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/19/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/06/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/02/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB709 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/16/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Governance and Finance] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 709 Bonta Consent Calendar Second Day — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 709 Bonta Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB709 Bonta By Leyva — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar AB709 — 37–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bonta — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2019-03-18 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2019-03-19 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
• 2019-03-20 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2019-04-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-12 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
• 2019-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-04-24 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (April 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-04-25 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1475.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-02 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-29 Referred to Coms. on ED. and GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2019-06-18 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 12). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-19 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-07-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-08-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2183.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-08-15 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-08-22 Ordered to the Senate.
• 2019-08-23 In Senate. Held at Desk.
• 2019-09-06 Action rescinded whereby the bill was read third time, passed, and to Assembly. passage, reading-3
• 2019-09-06 Ordered to third reading.
• 2019-09-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2749.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 12 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2019-09-11 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 3370.)
• 2019-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3409.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-02 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-02 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 437, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/020f30b0-5d8f-4a7d-aac6-48893c81b36f. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).