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Bill	School facilities: Civic Center Act: direct costs.	The Civic Center Act authorizes, and in some instances requires, the governing board of a school district to allow the use of school facilities or grounds as a civic center, for specified purposes. The act authorizes or requires, as applicable, the governing board of a school district to charge a fee, not to exceed the school district's direct costs, as defined, for use of its school facilities or grounds. Existing law, for these purposes, defines "direct costs" to mean the costs of supplies, utilities, janitorial services, services of school district employees, and salaries paid to school district employees directly associated with the administration of this section necessitated by the entity's use of the school facilities or grounds. Existing law, until January 1, 2025, expanded the definition of direct costs to include a specified share of the operating and maintenance costs proportional to the entity's use of the school facilities or grounds and a share of the costs for maintenance, repair, restoration, and refurbishment of the school facilities or grounds proportional to that entity's use of the school facilities or grounds, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 503	California AB 503 (20252026)	bill	CivicCenterAct Schoolfacilities directcosts	enacted	Mark González	5	17	4	2025-02-10	2025-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/301dc27a-5979-4166-b963-e2bb4d28bba8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB503	fdff3ea676af8a82ddb6763b38081620622329b74208779b2bac804bf946ea1f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 503 (20252026) — School facilities: Civic Center Act: direct costs.

The Civic Center Act authorizes, and in some instances requires, the governing board of a school district to allow the use of school facilities or grounds as a civic center, for specified purposes. The act authorizes or requires, as applicable, the governing board of a school district to charge a fee, not to exceed the school district's direct costs, as defined, for use of its school facilities or grounds. Existing law, for these purposes, defines "direct costs" to mean the costs of supplies, utilities, janitorial services, services of school district employees, and salaries paid to school district employees directly associated with the administration of this section necessitated by the entity's use of the school facilities or grounds. Existing law, until January 1, 2025, expanded the definition of direct costs to include a specified share of the operating and maintenance costs proportional to the entity's use of the school facilities or grounds and a share of the costs for maintenance, repair, restoration, and refurbishment of the school facilities or grounds proportional to that entity's use of the school facilities or grounds, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 02/10/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 02/25/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 10/01/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
4. AB503 (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/04/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB503 Mark González By Pérez Urgency Clause — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 503 Mark González Consent Calendar Second Day — 75–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass — 6–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Mark González — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-10 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-11 From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
• 2025-02-24 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2025-02-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-02-26 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2025-04-10 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 9). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-04-21 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-24 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1280.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-04-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-05-07 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2025-06-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 11). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-06-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-09-02 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2411.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-09-02 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
• 2025-09-09 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 156, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/301dc27a-5979-4166-b963-e2bb4d28bba8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).