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Bill	Pupils: adornments at school graduation ceremonies: task force.	Existing law authorizes a pupil to wear traditional tribal regalia or recognized objects of religious or cultural significance as an adornment at school graduation ceremonies. Existing law prohibits that authorization from limiting a local educational agency's discretion and authority to prohibit an item that is likely to cause a substantial disruption of, or material interference with, the ceremony.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 945	California AB 945 (20212022)	bill	Pupils: adornments at school graduation ceremonies: task force.	enacted	Ramos	7	27	10	2021-02-17	2021-09-24	openstates	ocd-bill/26d48038-5a6f-4572-9597-8391bd969c9a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB945	75802de4f7a2611f7abc7cd9acabab4b1e9d62ce5a99b6c056b1622bb2fd1219	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 945 (20212022) — Pupils: adornments at school graduation ceremonies: task force.

Existing law authorizes a pupil to wear traditional tribal regalia or recognized objects of religious or cultural significance as an adornment at school graduation ceremonies. Existing law prohibits that authorization from limiting a local educational agency's discretion and authority to prohibit an item that is likely to cause a substantial disruption of, or material interference with, the ceremony.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/24/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/25/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/24/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB945 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/09/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 945 Ramos Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 945 Ramos Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 73–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent AB945 — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ramos — primary (person)
• Dahle — coauthor (person)
• Glazer — coauthor (person)
• Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
• Leyva — coauthor (person)
• Ochoa Bogh — coauthor (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.
• 2021-03-25 Referred to Coms. on ED. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-03-25 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
• 2021-03-26 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2021-04-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 7). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-28 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 20). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2021-05-24 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1898.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-07 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2021-06-16 Referred to Coms. on ED. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-06-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-06-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-08-16 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-31 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2021-09-03 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2392.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-03 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2021-09-07 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 2848.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-13 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2021-09-24 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-09-24 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 285, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/26d48038-5a6f-4572-9597-8391bd969c9a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).