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Bill	Advisory Commission on Special Education.	Existing law establishes the Advisory Commission on Special Education as an entity in state government consisting of 17 members to, among other things, study and provide assistance and advice to the State Board of Education, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Legislature, and the Governor in new or continuing areas of research, program development, and evaluation in special education.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 291	California SB 291 (20212022)	bill	Advisory Commission on Special Education.	enacted	Stern	7	36	8	2021-02-01	2022-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/b6c185e0-0322-4c64-8479-f01b4f6ab641	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB291	47f8fbc762b525ddb28511b888bef2c1d9abf149f3d5b0335e8cac3affff2a6e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 291 (20212022) — Advisory Commission on Special Education.

Existing law establishes the Advisory Commission on Special Education as an entity in state government consisting of 17 members to, among other things, study and provide assistance and advice to the State Board of Education, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, the Legislature, and the Governor in new or continuing areas of research, program development, and evaluation in special education.

Version chain

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

1. 02/01/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/20/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/20/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/18/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/30/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB291 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/01/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Special Consent SB291 — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 291 Stern Senate Third Reading By Megan Dahle — 77–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Stern — primary (person)
• Megan Dahle — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-01 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2021-02-02 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 4.
• 2021-02-10 Referred to Com. on ED. 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.)
• 2021-02-23 Set for hearing March 10.
• 2021-03-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 667.) (March 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-03-12 Set for hearing March 22.
• 2021-03-22 March 22 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 1186.) (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
• 2021-06-03 Ordered to inactive file on request of Senator Stern.
• 2022-01-18 From inactive file on motion of Senator Hertzberg.
• 2022-01-18 Ordered to second reading.
• 2022-01-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-01-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2801.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-01-24 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2022-05-05 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2022-06-16 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 15). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-20 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (June 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-06-30 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-01 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Reyes.
• 2022-08-01 Ordered to third reading.
• 2022-08-18 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-18 Ordered to third reading.
• 2022-08-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5997.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-22 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2022-08-30 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2022-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5341.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2022-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 917, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/b6c185e0-0322-4c64-8479-f01b4f6ab641. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).