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Bill	Teacher credentialing: reading instruction.	Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to, among other duties, establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law requires the commission to develop, adopt, and administer a reading instruction competence assessment consisting of one or more instruments to measure an individual's knowledge, skill, and ability relative to effective reading instruction, as provided. Existing law requires the requirements for the issuance of the preliminary multiple subject teaching credential to include successful passage of one of specified components of the reading instruction competence assessment.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	SB 488	California SB 488 (20212022)	bill	Teacher credentialing: reading instruction.	enacted	Rubio	7	30	8	2021-02-17	2021-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/57a5c34b-5783-4425-a6b3-5d65575baa2e	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB488	51d5dacbb638c577cfee94d393f85660d4fe74b933cf4f99cc1baf80d4b3d334	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 488 (20212022) — Teacher credentialing: reading instruction.

Existing law requires the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to, among other duties, establish standards for the issuance and renewal of credentials, certificates, and permits. Existing law requires the commission to develop, adopt, and administer a reading instruction competence assessment consisting of one or more instruments to measure an individual's knowledge, skill, and ability relative to effective reading instruction, as provided. Existing law requires the requirements for the issuance of the preliminary multiple subject teaching credential to include successful passage of one of specified components of the reading instruction competence assessment.

Version chain

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

1. 02/17/21 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/04/21 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/24/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/30/21 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/08/21 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB488 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/13/21 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 488 Rubio Senate Third Reading By Lorena Gonzalez — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent SB488 — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB488 Rubio et al. Concurrence — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Rubio — primary (person)
• Laird — coauthor (person)
• Lorena Gonzalez — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-02-17 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2021-02-18 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 20.
• 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.)
• 2021-02-25 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2021-03-01 Set for hearing March 17.
• 2021-03-04 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 and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 669.) (March 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2021-03-19 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. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1193.) (May 20). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-05-24 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2021-06-01 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1345.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-06-02 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2021-06-10 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2021-06-23 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 23). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-06-24 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2021-08-19 August 19 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2021-08-26 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2021-08-30 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-08-31 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2021-09-08 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 2917.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2021-09-08 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2021-09-09 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2558.) 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 678, Statutes of 2021. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/57a5c34b-5783-4425-a6b3-5d65575baa2e. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).