republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/ab-640.md

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Bill	Local educational agencies: governance training.	(1) Existing law requires all local agency officials to receive training in ethics, at specified intervals, if the local agency provides certain monetary payments to a member of a legislative body, as provided. Existing law requires a local agency to provide information on available ethics training to its officials and authorizes a local agency or an association of local agencies to offer the ethics training, as provided. Existing law requires a local agency to maintain specified records related to the ethics training of its officials. Existing law defines "local agency" to include, among others, a school district, county office of education, and charter school, and defines "local agency official" to include, among others, a member of the governing board of a school district, a county board of education, or the governing body of a charter school, for these purposes.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 640	California AB 640 (20252026)	bill	Localeducationalagencies governancetraining	enacted	Muratsuchi	7	27	8	2025-02-13	2025-10-11	openstates	ocd-bill/55a9b1b2-0850-4c0d-8722-685cd34dba6a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB640	0fc943d1ef56517ae2399f1f01d41a5aed57ce217213c0819f53f6e15901d09e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 640 (20252026) — Local educational agencies: governance training.

(1) Existing law requires all local agency officials to receive training in ethics, at specified intervals, if the local agency provides certain monetary payments to a member of a legislative body, as provided. Existing law requires a local agency to provide information on available ethics training to its officials and authorizes a local agency or an association of local agencies to offer the ethics training, as provided. Existing law requires a local agency to maintain specified records related to the ethics training of its officials. Existing law defines "local agency" to include, among others, a school district, county office of education, and charter school, and defines "local agency official" to include, among others, a member of the governing board of a school district, a county board of education, or the governing body of a charter school, for these purposes.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/27/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/30/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/29/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/11/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB640 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/12/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB640 Muratsuchi et al. By Pérez — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 640 Muratsuchi Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 13–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 640 Muratsuchi Assembly Third Reading — 74–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Muratsuchi — primary (person)
• Wicks — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2025-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2025-02-24 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2025-03-19 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
• 2025-03-27 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
• 2025-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2025-04-10 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-23 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-05-23 Coauthors revised.
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (May 23). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-04 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2056.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-06-05 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2025-06-18 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2025-06-19 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2025-06-30 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2025-07-09 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. 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: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (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
• 2025-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2700.). 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 78. Noes 0. Page 3234.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2025-10-11 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-11 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 618, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/55a9b1b2-0850-4c0d-8722-685cd34dba6a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).