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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "School employees: classified employees: layoff notice and hearing."
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description: "Under existing law, classified employees of school districts and community college districts subject to layoff as a result of the expiration of a specially funded program at the end of a school year are required to be given written notice on or before April 29 informing them of certain rights. Existing law also requires that notice be given not less than 60 days before the effective layoff date if the termination date of a specially funded program is other than June 30, or if classified employees are subject to layoff as a result of a bona fide reduction or elimination of a service performed by a department."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20212022"
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identifier: "AB 438"
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citation: "California AB 438 (20212022)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["School employees: classified employees: layoff notice and hearing."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Reyes"]
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version_count: 8
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action_count: 29
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vote_count: 8
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first_action: "2021-02-04"
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last_action: "2021-10-08"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c7b0fff6-b7d6-4069-8923-9c71bb874819"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB438"
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source_hash: "b3a187c327c5b9f3b2dbae0f6e23f5eb928a3f38e32331e1f195cd048e7d9850"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 438 (20212022) — School employees: classified employees: layoff notice and hearing.
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Under existing law, classified employees of school districts and community college districts subject to layoff as a result of the expiration of a specially funded program at the end of a school year are required to be given written notice on or before April 29 informing them of certain rights. Existing law also requires that notice be given not less than 60 days before the effective layoff date if the termination date of a specially funded program is other than June 30, or if classified employees are subject to layoff as a result of a bona fide reduction or elimination of a service performed by a department.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/04/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB438&version=20210AB43899INT)
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2. **04/05/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB438&version=20210AB43898AMD)
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3. **06/28/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB438&version=20210AB43897AMD)
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4. **08/26/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB438&version=20210AB43896AMD)
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5. **09/02/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB438&version=20210AB43895AMD)
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6. **10/08/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB438&version=20210AB43893CHP)
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7. **AB438** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB438)
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8. **09/10/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB438&version=20210AB43894ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–1** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading AB438 Reyes et al. By Hertzberg — **26–8** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass. — **12–4** (pass) · lower
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- AB 438 Reyes Assembly Third Reading — **57–14** (pass) · lower
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- AB 438 Reyes Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **56–16** (pass) · lower
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- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **4–1** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended — **5–2** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Reyes — primary (person)
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- Archuleta — coauthor (person)
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- Bennett — coauthor (person)
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- Bloom — coauthor (person)
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- Bradford — coauthor (person)
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- Calderon — coauthor (person)
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- Carrillo — coauthor (person)
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- Cortese — coauthor (person)
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- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
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- Durazo — coauthor (person)
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- Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
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- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
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- Kalra — coauthor (person)
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- Lee — coauthor (person)
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- Leyva — coauthor (person)
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- Lorena Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
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- Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
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- McCarty — coauthor (person)
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- Medina — coauthor (person)
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- Min — coauthor (person)
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- Newman — coauthor (person)
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- O'Donnell — coauthor (person)
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- Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
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- Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
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- Santiago — coauthor (person)
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- Stone — coauthor (person)
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- Voepel — coauthor (person)
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- Wicks — coauthor (person)
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- Wiener — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2021-02-04** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2021-02-05** From printer. May be heard in committee March 7.
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- **2021-02-12** Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
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- **2021-04-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P.E. & R. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2021-04-06** Re-referred to Com. on P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
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- **2021-04-06** Coauthors revised.
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- **2021-04-19** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2021-05-05** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2021-05-20** Coauthors revised.
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- **2021-05-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 20). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2021-05-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2021-05-27** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 14. Page 1634.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2021-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2021-06-09** Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
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- **2021-06-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2021-07-06** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (July 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2021-07-15** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2021-08-26** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 26). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
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- **2021-08-26** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2021-08-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2021-09-02** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2021-09-03** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2021-09-07** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 8. Page 2452.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2021-09-07** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 9 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
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- **2021-09-08** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 17. Page 2875.)
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- **2021-09-08** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 56. Noes 16. Page 2902.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2021-09-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 5 p.m.
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- **2021-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2021-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 665, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c7b0fff6-b7d6-4069-8923-9c71bb874819`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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