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type: "Bill"
title: "State agencies: complaints: demographic data."
description: "(1) Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and implement a system of complaint processing, known as the Uniform Complaint Procedures, for specified educational programs, and requires the State Department of Education to review those regulations pertaining to uniform complaint procedures for specified types of complaints, including those that allege unlawful discrimination, harassment, intimidation, or bullying against any protected group, as provided. Existing law requires the department to, on or before March 31, 2019, commence rulemaking proceedings to revise those regulations, as necessary, to conform to specified provisions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20252026"
identifier: "AB 935"
citation: "California AB 935 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Stateagencies", "complaints", "demographicdata"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ransom"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 31
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2025-02-19"
last_action: "2025-10-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c26efe4b-79cd-4dcd-bb75-81d88012fa14"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB935"
source_hash: "206cfa48cca0f4adae97661954cdc3b331a83c7778debdfd6a9382d075834da8"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California AB 935 (20252026) — State agencies: complaints: demographic data.
(1) Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and implement a system of complaint processing, known as the Uniform Complaint Procedures, for specified educational programs, and requires the State Department of Education to review those regulations pertaining to uniform complaint procedures for specified types of complaints, including those that allege unlawful discrimination, harassment, intimidation, or bullying against any protected group, as provided. Existing law requires the department to, on or before March 31, 2019, commence rulemaking proceedings to revise those regulations, as necessary, to conform to specified provisions.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/19/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB935&version=20250AB93599INT)
2. **03/24/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB935&version=20250AB93598AMD)
3. **05/05/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB935&version=20250AB93597AMD)
4. **07/03/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB935&version=20250AB93596AMD)
5. **08/29/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB935&version=20250AB93595AMD)
6. **09/04/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB935&version=20250AB93594AMD)
7. **09/05/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB935&version=20250AB93593AMD)
8. **10/13/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB935&version=20250AB93591CHP)
9. **AB935** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB935)
10. **09/12/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB935&version=20250AB93592ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Education] — **91** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB935 Ransom et al. By Weber Pierson — **309** (pass) · upper
- AB 935 Ransom Assembly Third Reading — **6210** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **52** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- AB 935 Ransom Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **6212** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **70** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Education] — **111** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **51** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **112** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Ransom — primary (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Elhawary — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- McKinnor — coauthor (person)
- Richardson — coauthor (person)
- Sharp-Collins — coauthor (person)
- Smallwood-Cuevas — coauthor (person)
- Weber Pierson — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-19** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2025-02-20** From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
- **2025-03-24** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and ED. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-03-25** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2025-04-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on ED. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 30). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-05-05** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-05-06** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2025-05-14** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **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`
- **2025-06-03** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 10. Page 1984.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2025-06-18** Referred to Coms. on JUD. and ED. `referral-committee`
- **2025-07-02** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (July 1). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-03** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-17** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (July 16). 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`
- **2025-09-04** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-05** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **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 30. Noes 9. Page 2728.). `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 62. Noes 12. Page 3202.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-22** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2025-10-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-10-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 717, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c26efe4b-79cd-4dcd-bb75-81d88012fa14`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).