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Bill	Pupil attendance: excused absences.	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 is for the purpose of attending the funeral services of a member of the pupil's immediate family, provided that the absence is not more than one day if the service is conducted in the state and not more than 3 days if the service is conducted outside the state.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 350	California SB 350 (20232024)	bill	Pupil attendance excused absences	enacted	Ashby	8	29	8	2023-02-08	2023-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/a624067c-37c9-4e17-9ddc-279c7d2aba9b	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB350	2d8fa72d775045b545829e298add693a7dc97081cc695de2e2a7122d753662f9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 350 (20232024) — Pupil attendance: excused absences.

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 is for the purpose of attending the funeral services of a member of the pupil's immediate family, provided that the absence is not more than one day if the service is conducted in the state and not more than 3 days if the service is conducted outside the state.

Version chain

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

1. 02/08/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/10/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/18/23 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/30/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/06/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 10/08/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB350 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/14/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 350 Ashby Senate Third Reading By Aguiar-Curry — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent SB350 Ashby et al. — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB350 Ashby et al. Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 16–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Ashby — primary (person)
• Portantino — principal coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-08 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-09 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 11.
• 2023-02-15 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2023-03-21 Set for hearing April 12.
• 2023-04-10 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
• 2023-04-12 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 682.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-04-14 Set for hearing April 24.
• 2023-04-24 April 24 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2023-05-12 Set for hearing May 18.
• 2023-05-18 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1167.) (May 18). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-05-18 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-05-26 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2023-05-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1364.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-05-31 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-06-08 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2023-06-29 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 28). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-06-30 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2023-08-16 August 16 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2023-09-01 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (September 1). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-09-06 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-06 Ordered to third reading.
• 2023-09-11 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3164.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-11 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-09-12 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2673.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-18 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2023-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 601, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a624067c-37c9-4e17-9ddc-279c7d2aba9b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).