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Bill	Emergencies proclaimed by the Governor: school employee catastrophic leave.	Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district or county office of education to establish a catastrophic leave program to permit employees of that school district or county office of education, if specified conditions are met, to donate eligible leave credits to an employee when that employee or a member of their family suffers from a catastrophic illness or injury, as provided.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	AB 642	California AB 642 (20252026)	bill	EmergenciesproclaimedbytheGovernor schoolemployeecatastrophicleave	enacted	Muratsuchi	8	25	6	2025-02-13	2025-07-30	openstates	ocd-bill/9577067f-319a-45ef-97a8-ca5dafd02ea8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB642	9ab1b727897b1de9d8926d7019488e638537d49dfec592248c27e54c1f5b9563	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 642 (20252026) — Emergencies proclaimed by the Governor: school employee catastrophic leave.

Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district or county office of education to establish a catastrophic leave program to permit employees of that school district or county office of education, if specified conditions are met, to donate eligible leave credits to an employee when that employee or a member of their family suffers from a catastrophic illness or injury, as provided.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/05/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 03/28/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/23/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/23/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/30/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB642 (committee substitute) — source
8. 07/18/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Consent Calendar 2nd (Urgency Clause) — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be ordered to the Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 642 Muratsuchi Third Reading Urgency — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 642 Muratsuchi Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 74–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Muratsuchi — primary (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.
• 2025-03-03 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2025-03-05 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
• 2025-03-06 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2025-03-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 26). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2025-03-28 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2025-04-09 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2025-05-23 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 51. Noes 16. Page 1644.)
• 2025-05-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2025-05-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-06-04 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 2066.). 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
• 2025-06-23 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
• 2025-07-02 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-07-03 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-07-10 Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2042.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-07-10 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2025-07-17 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2590.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-07-25 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2025-07-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-07-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 83, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9577067f-319a-45ef-97a8-ca5dafd02ea8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).