republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-268.md

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Bill	State holidays: Diwali.	Existing law designates specific days as holidays in this state. Existing law designates holidays on which community colleges and public schools are authorized to close pursuant to a memorandum of understanding between the governing board and represented employees, including "Native American Day" on the 4th Friday in September. Existing law entitles state employees, with specified exceptions, and authorizes certain community college and public school employees, to be given time off with pay for specified holidays, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 268	California AB 268 (20252026)	bill	Diwali Stateholidays	enacted	Kalra	6	26	10	2025-01-17	2025-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/141e83b2-c3de-41e7-b7ba-2e1272a595d1	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB268	4473d7573306777c27b9a1dc50c667a50619d425598e1e61233b876c0370ca29	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 268 (20252026) — State holidays: Diwali.

Existing law designates specific days as holidays in this state. Existing law designates holidays on which community colleges and public schools are authorized to close pursuant to a memorandum of understanding between the governing board and represented employees, including "Native American Day" on the 4th Friday in September. Existing law entitles state employees, with specified exceptions, and authorizes certain community college and public school employees, to be given time off with pay for specified holidays, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 01/17/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/13/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/13/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/06/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB268 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/15/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Education] — 13–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 268 Kalra Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Employment and Retirement] — 19–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB268 Kalra et al. By Allen — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 268 Kalra Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Kalra — primary (person)
• Ahrens — coauthor (person)
• Allen — principal coauthor (person)
• Bains — coauthor (person)
• Cortese — coauthor (person)
• Fong — coauthor (person)
• Gipson — coauthor (person)
• Lee — coauthor (person)
• Patel — author (person)
• Wahab — coauthor (person)
• Ward — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-17 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-01-18 From printer. May be heard in committee February 17.
• 2025-03-13 Referred to Coms. on G.O. and P. E. & R. referral-committee
• 2025-03-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on G.O. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-03-17 Re-referred to Com. on G.O. referral-committee
• 2025-04-03 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. E. & R. (Ayes 19. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on P. E. & R. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-23 Coauthors revised.
• 2025-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-05-07 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 1817.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-03 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-11 Referred to Coms. on G.O. and ED. referral-committee
• 2025-06-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on G.O. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-06-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on ED. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-08-18 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-08-29 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 29). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2796.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-11 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 3290.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-23 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2025-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 358, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/141e83b2-c3de-41e7-b7ba-2e1272a595d1. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).