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Bill	Pupil attendance: excused absences: civic or political events.	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 955	California SB 955 (20212022)	bill	Pupil attendance: excused absences: civic or political events.	enacted	Leyva	6	26	8	2022-02-09	2022-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/803c781d-0f67-4544-bfbb-8e737082680c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB955	ba170eaf8ab44b341455c68cfaa425a3289194eb811960098a68fd73bf358b48	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 955 (20212022) — Pupil attendance: excused absences: civic or political events.

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. 02/09/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/20/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/15/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/30/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB955 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/24/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Unfinished Business SB955 Leyva Concurrence — 30–9 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–2 (pass) · lower
• SB 955 Leyva Senate Third Reading By Lee — 56–16 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 27–10 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Leyva — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-09 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2022-02-09 Article IV Section 8(a) of the Constitution and Joint Rule 55 dispensed with February 7, 2022, suspending the 30 calendar day requirement.
• 2022-02-10 From printer.
• 2022-02-16 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2022-03-24 Set for hearing April 6.
• 2022-04-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 2. Page 3348.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2022-04-22 Set for hearing May 2.
• 2022-05-02 May 2 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2022-05-13 Set for hearing May 19.
• 2022-05-19 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3776.) (May 19). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-24 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 3887.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-25 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2022-05-27 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2022-06-16 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (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 June 29 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (August 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-18 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 56. Noes 16. Page 5947.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-18 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2022-08-22 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 4936.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-08-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2022-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 921, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/803c781d-0f67-4544-bfbb-8e737082680c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).