republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-87.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pupils: Section 504 plans: meetings and team meetings."
description: "Existing law requires a special education local plan area submitting a local plan to the Superintendent of Public Instruction to ensure that it has in effect policies, procedures, and programs that are consistent with state laws, regulations, and policies governing, among other things, compliance assurances, including general compliance with Section 504 of the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973. That federal law prohibits an otherwise qualified individual with a disability, solely by reason of their disability, from being excluded from the participation in, denied the benefits of, or subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 87"
citation: "California AB 87 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Pupils", "Section 504 plans", "meetings and team meetings"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Quirk-Silva"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 17
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-01-04"
last_action: "2023-07-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/abde818a-7c44-4d19-9b60-be03412b4ebf"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB87"
source_hash: "c6b901dcf4df9709d8e07e29f593dae47e705164ac9b9ec05baf5fcf61aef143"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 87 (20232024) — Pupils: Section 504 plans: meetings and team meetings.

Existing law requires a special education local plan area submitting a local plan to the Superintendent of Public Instruction to ensure that it has in effect policies, procedures, and programs that are consistent with state laws, regulations, and policies governing, among other things, compliance assurances, including general compliance with Section 504 of the federal Rehabilitation Act of 1973. That federal law prohibits an otherwise qualified individual with a disability, solely by reason of their disability, from being excluded from the participation in, denied the benefits of, or subjected to discrimination under any program or activity receiving federal financial assistance.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/04/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB87&version=20230AB8799INT)
2. **03/27/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB87&version=20230AB8798AMD)
3. **07/21/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB87&version=20230AB8796CHP)
4. **AB87** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB87)
5. **07/07/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB87&version=20230AB8797ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — **11–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 87 Quirk-Silva Consent Calendar Second Day — **65–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar AB87 Quirk-Silva — **40–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Quirk-Silva — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-01-04** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-01-05** From printer. May be heard in committee February 4.
- **2023-01-26** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (March 22). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2023-03-27** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-03-28** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-10** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 1079.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-04-10** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-03** Referred to Coms. on ED. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-07** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 7). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-28** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 27). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-06-29** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-07-06** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1916.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-07-06** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2023-07-14** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2023-07-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-07-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 81, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/abde818a-7c44-4d19-9b60-be03412b4ebf`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).