republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-2685.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Charter schools: criminal background of employees and volunteers."
description: "Existing law authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to issue teaching credentials and services credentials. Existing law defines \"adverse action\" as the denial of an application for a credential, a private admonition or a public reproval of a credentialholder, or the suspension or revocation of a credential. Existing law requires the commission to send, on a monthly basis, to each private school a list of all teachers who have had their state teaching credential revoked or suspended."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 2685"
citation: "California AB 2685 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Charter schools: criminal background of employees and volunteers."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["De La Torre"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2010-02-19"
last_action: "2010-08-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/16d5b2ec-d4cb-4317-940e-cb830ca73986"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2685"
source_hash: "20ac2927798e0b4df2e74e04d64c01268957e0f3722adc021ae8616d913ca72f"
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 2685 (20092010) — Charter schools: criminal background of employees and volunteers.

Existing law authorizes the Commission on Teacher Credentialing to issue teaching credentials and services credentials. Existing law defines "adverse action" as the denial of an application for a credential, a private admonition or a public reproval of a credentialholder, or the suspension or revocation of a credential. Existing law requires the commission to send, on a monthly basis, to each private school a list of all teachers who have had their state teaching credential revoked or suspended.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2685&version=20090AB268599INT)
2. **03/25/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2685&version=20090AB268598AMD)
3. **04/15/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2685&version=20090AB268597AMD)
4. **05/10/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2685&version=20090AB268596AMD)
5. **08/23/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2685&version=20090AB268594CHP)
6. **AB2685** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2685)
7. **08/06/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB2685&version=20090AB268595ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2685 DE LA TORRE Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB2685 De La Torre — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- De La Torre — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2010-02-19** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2010-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2010-02-22** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2010-03-18** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2010-03-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-04-05** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2010-04-14** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 7). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2010-04-15** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-04-19** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2010-05-10** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2010-05-11** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2010-05-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 19). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-05-20** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-05-24** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 5281.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-05-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2010-06-03** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2010-06-23** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2010-07-15** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage`
- **2010-08-02** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2010-08-05** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4372.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2010-08-05** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2010-08-09** Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:50 p.m.
- **2010-08-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2010-08-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 169, Statutes of 2010.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/16d5b2ec-d4cb-4317-940e-cb830ca73986`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).