republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20012002/ab-128.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Education: public school employees."
description: "Education: public school employees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 128"
citation: "California AB 128 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education: public school employees."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Goldberg"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 27
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2001-01-22"
last_action: "2001-10-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/36590403-6bfa-489c-8b48-60cb07553061"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB128"
source_hash: "57aa31069b7a8e90e220f768eeee8f9d3fd054d5d487ba4d307856c44f61d99f"
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 128 (20012002) — Education: public school employees.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/22/01 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB128&version=20010AB12899INT)
2. **02/22/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB128&version=20010AB12898AMD)
3. **03/12/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB128&version=20010AB12897AMD)
4. **04/03/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB128&version=20010AB12896AMD)
5. **05/31/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB128&version=20010AB12895AMD)
6. **09/06/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB128&version=20010AB12894AMD)
7. **09/13/01 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB128&version=20010AB12893AMD)
8. **10/13/01 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB128&version=20010AB12891CHP)
9. **AB128** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB128)
10. **09/14/01 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB128&version=20010AB12892ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 128 Goldberg Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 128 Shelley Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB128 Goldberg By Romero — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Goldberg — primary (person)
- Shelley — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-10-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 839, Statutes of 2001.
- **2001-10-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2001-10-02** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2001-09-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3997.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2001-09-14** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 12. Page 2959.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-09-13** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-3`
- **2001-09-12** Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on third reading file.
- **2001-09-07** Withdrawn from committee. Re-referred to Standing Committee on Rules. `referral-committee`
- **2001-09-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Education. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-07-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2001-06-12** Referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2001-06-06** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2001-06-05** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 2142.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-06-04** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-05-31** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 21. Noes 0.) (May 31). Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-05-29** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice waived. (Page 1856.)
- **2001-04-25** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-16** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-03** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2001-04-02** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (March 21). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2001-03-13** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2001-03-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Education Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-02-26** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2001-02-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Education Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-02-16** Referred to Standing Committee on Education. `referral-committee`
- **2001-01-23** From printer. May be heard in committee February 22.
- **2001-01-22** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/36590403-6bfa-489c-8b48-60cb07553061`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).