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type: "Bill"
title: "Education finance."
description: "(1) The California Constitution requires the state to apply a minimum amount of funding for each fiscal year for the support of school districts and community college districts. The amount of that minimum funding obligation is required to be determined pursuant to one of three tests, depending on specified factors. The California Constitution provides that school districts and community college districts are entitled to a maintenance factor equal to the amount of a reduction of the minimum funding obligation due to specified circumstances. The California Constitution requires that a specified amount of the maintenance factor be allocated in a manner determined by the Legislature in each fiscal year in which the percentage growth in per capita General Fund revenues exceeds the percentage growth in California per capita personal income."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010 Special Session 4"
identifier: "AB 3"
citation: "California AB 3 (20092010 Special Session 4)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["Education finance."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Evans"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2009-07-02"
last_action: "2009-07-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a76ff286-4a35-4baf-8421-937a24f1762a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920104AB3"
source_hash: "65267a64b8286c0d808bd66a986f20d340315910dd44ac035184ef9da5cfad98"
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 3 (20092010 Special Session 4) — Education finance.
(1) The California Constitution requires the state to apply a minimum amount of funding for each fiscal year for the support of school districts and community college districts. The amount of that minimum funding obligation is required to be determined pursuant to one of three tests, depending on specified factors. The California Constitution provides that school districts and community college districts are entitled to a maintenance factor equal to the amount of a reduction of the minimum funding obligation due to specified circumstances. The California Constitution requires that a specified amount of the maintenance factor be allocated in a manner determined by the Legislature in each fiscal year in which the percentage growth in per capita General Fund revenues exceeds the percentage growth in California per capita personal income.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **07/02/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920104AB3&version=20094AB399INT)
2. **07/24/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920104AB3&version=20094AB398AMD)
3. **07/28/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920104AB3&version=20094AB396CHP)
4. **AB3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920104AB3)
5. **07/28/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920104AB3&version=20094AB397ENR)
## Votes
- AB3 EVANS Concurrence- Urgency Added Fourth Extraordinary Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB3 Evans Urgency Clause — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB3 EVANS Assembly Third Reading Fourth Extraordinary Session — **pass** (pass) · lower
## Sponsors
- Evans — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2009-07-02** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-07-06** From printer.
- **2009-07-06** Without reference to committee. `referral-committee`
- **2009-07-06** Ordered to second reading.
- **2009-07-06** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-07-09** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 47. Noes 2. Page 24.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-07-09** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-07-15** Withdrawn from committee. Ordered placed on second reading file.
- **2009-07-15** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-07-23** Joint Rule 10.5 suspended.
- **2009-07-23** (Ayes 37. Noes 1. Page 43.)
- **2009-07-23** Senate Rule 29.3 suspended.
- **2009-07-23** (Ayes 24. Noes 12. Page 43.)
- **2009-07-24** Read third time and amended. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-07-24** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed and to Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 13. Page 70.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-07-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2009-07-24** Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
- **2009-07-24** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 56. Noes 20. Page 93.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-07-24** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2009-07-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-07-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 3, Statutes of 2009-10 Fourth Extraordinary Session.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a76ff286-4a35-4baf-8421-937a24f1762a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).