republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/sb-272.md

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Bill	State government: gender-neutral terms: California Conservation Corps.	(1) Existing law establishes the California Conservation Corps in the Natural Resources Agency and requires the corps to implement and administer the conservation corps program. Under existing law, the California Conservation Corps is authorized to certify nonprofit community conservation corps if they meet specified criteria, including, but not limited to, the requirement that the community conservation corps consists of an average annual enrollment of not less than 50 corpsmembers between 18 and 25 years of age.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 272	California SB 272 (20212022)	bill	State government: gender-neutral terms: California Conservation Corps.	enacted	Laird	6	31	7	2021-01-29	2021-07-23	openstates	ocd-bill/727d5697-d946-4703-905e-c06a1f8dbd4c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB272	c7542ce381ff7af650c8075b0a8f2a307dfc7efc60667e02a3bec9bf9a7372ab	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 272 (20212022) — State government: gender-neutral terms: California Conservation Corps.

(1) Existing law establishes the California Conservation Corps in the Natural Resources Agency and requires the corps to implement and administer the conservation corps program. Under existing law, the California Conservation Corps is authorized to certify nonprofit community conservation corps if they meet specified criteria, including, but not limited to, the requirement that the community conservation corps consists of an average annual enrollment of not less than 50 corpsmembers between 18 and 25 years of age.

Version chain

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

1. 01/29/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/10/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/05/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 07/23/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB272 (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/16/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB272 Laird et al. Urgency Clause Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 272 Laird Third Reading Urgency By Bauer-Kahan — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Consent Calendar SB272 — 36–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Laird — primary (person)
• Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
• Low — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-01-29 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2021-02-01 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 3.
• 2021-02-01 Read first time. reading-1
• 2021-02-10 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2021-02-22 Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
• 2021-02-22 (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
• 2021-02-22 Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
• 2021-03-10 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-03-18 Re-referred to Coms. on N.R. & W. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-03-24 Set for hearing April 13.
• 2021-04-13 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0. Page 776.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-04-14 Set for hearing April 20.
• 2021-04-21 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 859.) (April 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-04-22 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-04-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 974.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-04-29 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-05-13 Referred to Coms. on NAT. RES. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2021-06-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 9). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-06-22 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 22). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-23 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-06-28 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Chau.
• 2021-06-28 Ordered to third reading.
• 2021-07-05 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-07-05 Ordered to third reading.
• 2021-07-12 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2310.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-07-12 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-07-15 Urgency clause adopted.
• 2021-07-15 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1983.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-07-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2021-07-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2021-07-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 133, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/727d5697-d946-4703-905e-c06a1f8dbd4c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).