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Bill	School facilities: shade structures.	The Field Act requires the Department of General Services under the police power of the state to supervise the design and construction of any school building or the reconstruction or alteration of or addition to any school building, if not exempted, to ensure that plans and specifications comply with adopted rules and regulations and building standards published in regulations, and to ensure that the work of construction is performed in accordance with the approved plans and specifications for the protection of life and property.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 515	California SB 515 (20232024)	bill	School facilities shade structures	enacted	Stern	7	26	6	2023-02-14	2023-10-08	openstates	ocd-bill/4e0395fc-cad4-470e-bf1b-b6f8b06b35b0	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB515	4a65d9250cbebc8fbca0c6685c1ab7eb5168e54ac53d4594af3e410fa5d6c686	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 515 (20232024) — School facilities: shade structures.

The Field Act requires the Department of General Services under the police power of the state to supervise the design and construction of any school building or the reconstruction or alteration of or addition to any school building, if not exempted, to ensure that plans and specifications comply with adopted rules and regulations and building standards published in regulations, and to ensure that the work of construction is performed in accordance with the approved plans and specifications for the protection of life and property.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/23 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 06/12/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/30/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/08/23 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/08/23 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. SB515 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/15/23 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 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 and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• SB 515 Stern Senate Third Reading By Schiavo — 80–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar SB515 Stern et al. — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB515 Stern et al. Concurrence — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 15–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Stern — primary (person)
• Allen — coauthor (person)
• Luz Rivas — coauthor (person)
• Rodriguez — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-14 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2023-02-15 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
• 2023-02-22 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2023-03-02 Set for hearing March 22.
• 2023-03-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 451.) (March 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2023-03-28 Set for hearing April 10.
• 2023-04-10 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2023-04-11 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-04-13 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 700.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-04-17 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2023-05-04 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2023-06-12 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
• 2023-06-29 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 From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2023-08-24 From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Bryan.
• 2023-08-24 Ordered to third reading.
• 2023-09-08 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-08 Ordered to third reading.
• 2023-09-12 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 3253.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2023-09-12 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2023-09-13 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2741.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2023-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2023-10-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2023-10-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 489, Statutes of 2023. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4e0395fc-cad4-470e-bf1b-b6f8b06b35b0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).