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Bill	Pupil health: COVID-19 Youth Health Information Act.	Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary education in this state. Under this system, local educational agencies throughout the state provide instruction to pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, at the schoolsites they operate. Private schools also provide elementary and secondary level instruction.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 856	California AB 856 (20212022)	bill	Pupil health: COVID-19 Youth Health Information Act.	enacted	Maienschein	7	23	6	2021-02-17	2021-07-23	openstates	ocd-bill/b25752fd-a766-4ab5-83ab-3f51f019fc06	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB856	ca5b02f6b62491470b309c77d448e92e74e5ee6eccacd47c86868840d28726b3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 856 (20212022) — Pupil health: COVID-19 Youth Health Information Act.

Existing law establishes a system of public elementary and secondary education in this state. Under this system, local educational agencies throughout the state provide instruction to pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, at the schoolsites they operate. Private schools also provide elementary and secondary level instruction.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/22/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/05/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/18/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 07/23/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB856 (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/15/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 856 Maienschein Consent Calendar Second Day — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB856 Maienschein By Portantino Urgency Clause — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 856 Maienschein Concurrence - Urgency Added By REYES — 69–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Maienschein — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2021-02-18 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2021-03-18 Referred to Coms. on ED. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2021-03-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-03-23 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2021-03-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 24). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2021-04-05 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-06 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2021-04-14 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 14). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-15 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1154.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-04-26 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-05-12 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2021-05-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-06-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-06-21 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2021-06-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-07-12 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1905.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-07-12 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 14 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2021-07-15 Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 2371.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-16 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2021-07-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-07-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 123, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b25752fd-a766-4ab5-83ab-3f51f019fc06. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).