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Bill	School operations: 4-day school week.	Existing law, for purposes of attendance counting, defines a school month as 20 days or 4 weeks of 5 days each. Existing law authorizes specified school districts, including, among others, certain school districts in the County of San Diego, to operate one or more schools in their respective school districts on a 4-day school week if the school district complies with specified requirements, including, among other requirements, instructional time requirements and a plan, submitted to the State Department of Education for review and approval, for how the school district will meet those instructional time requirements.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 1440	California SB 1440 (20232024)	bill	4-day school week School operations	enacted	Laird	7	30	7	2024-02-16	2024-09-22	openstates	ocd-bill/180570d2-6958-48fa-a041-7fce78cb0204	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB1440	c2d46ae2e1a92655485de1724cae8fde4e42314ed5d6db81fed5bd475582371d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1440 (20232024) — School operations: 4-day school week.

Existing law, for purposes of attendance counting, defines a school month as 20 days or 4 weeks of 5 days each. Existing law authorizes specified school districts, including, among others, certain school districts in the County of San Diego, to operate one or more schools in their respective school districts on a 4-day school week if the school district complies with specified requirements, including, among other requirements, instructional time requirements and a plan, submitted to the State Department of Education for review and approval, for how the school district will meet those instructional time requirements.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/20/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/10/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/27/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/22/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB1440 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/30/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 1440 Laird Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• That the Assembly amendments be concurred in — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent SB1440 Laird et al. — 39–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Laird — primary (person)
• Dahle — coauthor (person)
• Gallagher — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-16 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2024-02-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
• 2024-02-29 Referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2024-03-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-03 Re-referred to Com. on E.Q. referral-committee
• 2024-04-05 Set for hearing April 24.
• 2024-04-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3754.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-05-03 Set for hearing May 13.
• 2024-05-13 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2024-05-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-20 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 4021.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-21 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2024-05-28 Referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
• 2024-06-10 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-13 Re-referred to Com. on ED. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. referral-committee
• 2024-06-26 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-06-27 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-08-07 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 7). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-08 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-15 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 6321.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-15 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2024-08-19 Re-referred to Com. on RLS pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). referral-committee
• 2024-08-19 From committee: Be re-referred to Com. on ED. pursuant to Senate Rule 29.10(d). (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 5165.) Re-referred to Com. on ED. committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-08-22 Set for hearing August 26.
• 2024-08-26 From committee: That the Assembly amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 5425.) committee-passage
• 2024-08-27 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2024-08-28 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5611.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-04 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-22 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-22 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 478, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/180570d2-6958-48fa-a041-7fce78cb0204. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).