republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-461.md

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Bill	Truancy.	Existing law, the Compulsory Education Law, generally makes persons between the ages of 6 and 18 years of age subject to compulsory full-time education, unless exempted.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 461	California AB 461 (20252026)	bill	Truancy	enacted	Ahrens	7	30	10	2025-02-06	2025-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/9b3860ed-641b-4948-8db7-bd0ac76d6bf6	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB461	10694d7364e7bdf40263b546757942e2c3adfc9da63426ca6856872f5005a6b9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 461 (20252026) — Truancy.

Existing law, the Compulsory Education Law, generally makes persons between the ages of 6 and 18 years of age subject to compulsory full-time education, unless exempted.

Version chain

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

1. 02/06/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/24/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/29/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/05/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/01/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB461 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/12/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — 5–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 461 Ahrens Assembly Third Reading — 60–9 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB461 Ahrens et al. By Pérez — 29–9 (pass) · upper
• AB 461 Ahrens Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 60–14 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 11–2 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Ahrens — primary (person)
• Calderon — coauthor (person)
• Lee — coauthor (person)
• Pérez — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-06 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-07 From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
• 2025-03-24 Referred to Coms. on HUM. S. and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-03-24 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HUM. S. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-03-25 Re-referred to Com. on HUM. S. referral-committee
• 2025-04-09 Coauthors revised.
• 2025-04-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-30 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-05-14 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2025-05-21 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-05-21 Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1627.)
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 2.) (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 60. Noes 9. Page 1831.) 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 HUMAN S. and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-07-01 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-07-15 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (July 15). 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: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 29). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-08-29 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-05 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 2705.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 14. Page 3234.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 154, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9b3860ed-641b-4948-8db7-bd0ac76d6bf6. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).