School districts and community college districts: governing board elections: charter cities.
Existing law establishes in each county, except a county that is also a city and county, a county committee on school district organization, and authorizes the committee to take certain actions regarding the organization of school districts and community college districts in the territory under the committee's jurisdiction. Existing law authorizes, in any school district or community college district, a county committee on school district organization to establish trustee areas, rearrange the boundaries of trustee areas, abolish trustee areas, and increase to 7 or decrease to 5 the number of members of a governing board, or to adopt an alternative method of electing governing board members, as specified, except in a school district governed by a board of education provided for in the charter of a city or city and county.
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20212022
SB 442
California SB 442 (20212022)
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School districts and community college districts: governing board elections: charter cities.
California SB 442 (20212022) — School districts and community college districts: governing board elections: charter cities.
Existing law establishes in each county, except a county that is also a city and county, a county committee on school district organization, and authorizes the committee to take certain actions regarding the organization of school districts and community college districts in the territory under the committee's jurisdiction. Existing law authorizes, in any school district or community college district, a county committee on school district organization to establish trustee areas, rearrange the boundaries of trustee areas, abolish trustee areas, and increase to 7 or decrease to 5 the number of members of a governing board, or to adopt an alternative method of electing governing board members, as specified, except in a school district governed by a board of education provided for in the charter of a city or city and county.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
2021-02-25 Referred to Coms. on E. & C.A. and ED. referral-committee
2021-03-26 Set for hearing April 12.
2021-04-12 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 755.) (April 12). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-04-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2021-04-16 Set for hearing April 28.
2021-04-28 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 954.) (April 28). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-04-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2021-05-06 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 34. Noes 0. Page 1036.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-05-06 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2021-05-13 Referred to Coms. on ELECTIONS and HIGHER ED. referral-committee
2021-06-16 Coauthors revised.
2021-06-16 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 16). Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2021-06-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (June 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2021-06-30 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2021-07-12 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 2312.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2021-07-12 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
2021-07-15 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 139, Statutes of 2021. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/be59d6cf-ce30-4a91-a300-b30624780808. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).