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Bill	Pupil health: school employee and pupil training: excused absences: youth mental and behavioral health.	(1) Existing law, notwithstanding the requirement that each person between 6 and 18 years of age who is not otherwise exempted is subject to compulsory full-time education, requires a pupil to be excused from school for specified types of absences, including, among others, if the absence was due to the pupil's illness.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 14	California SB 14 (20212022)	bill	Pupil health: school employee and pupil training: excused absences: youth mental and behavioral health.	enacted	Portantino	11	32	8	2020-12-07	2021-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/6e0b3a38-193f-416b-b0f1-f32112fcb460	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB14	edfe847bab5406e92f32257f7f10c19bd461e33e4d63d09486230d82e510114e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 14 (20212022) — Pupil health: school employee and pupil training: excused absences: youth mental and behavioral health.

(1) Existing law, notwithstanding the requirement that each person between 6 and 18 years of age who is not otherwise exempted is subject to compulsory full-time education, requires a pupil to be excused from school for specified types of absences, including, among others, if the absence was due to the pupil's illness.

Version chain

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

1. 12/07/20 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/03/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/18/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/20/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/28/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/17/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 07/14/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/30/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
9. 10/08/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. SB14 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/14/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB14 Portantino et al. Urgency Clause Concurrence — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB14 Portantino et al. Urgency Clause — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 14 Portantino Third Reading Urgency By Low — 75–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Portantino — primary (person)
• Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
• Boerner Horvath — coauthor (person)
• Chau — coauthor (person)
• Cunningham — coauthor (person)
• Dodd — coauthor (person)
• Hueso — coauthor (person)
• Lee — coauthor (person)
• Low — principal coauthor (person)
• Maienschein — coauthor (person)
• Pan — coauthor (person)
• Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Umberg — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2020-12-07 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2020-12-08 From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 7.
• 2021-01-28 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2021-02-23 Set for hearing March 10.
• 2021-03-03 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-03-17 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 666.) (March 10). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-03-18 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-03-23 Set for hearing April 5.
• 2021-04-05 April 5 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2021-05-14 Set for hearing May 20.
• 2021-05-20 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1178.) (May 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-28 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-05-28 Ordered to second reading.
• 2021-06-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-03 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1415.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-03 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-06-10 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2021-06-17 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-07-13 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 7). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-14 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (August 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-30 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-08-30 Ordered to third reading.
• 2021-09-10 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 1. Page 3136.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-10 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-09-10 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2635.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-09-17 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
• 2021-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 672, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6e0b3a38-193f-416b-b0f1-f32112fcb460. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).