republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-386.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Public postsecondary education: instructional materials: disabled students."
description: "Existing law requires publishers and manufacturers of printed instructional material for use at public postsecondary educational institutions to provide the material, upon request, in an electronic format that is compatible with commonly used braille translation and speech synthesis software, when those materials are to be used by a student whose disability prevents him or her from using standard instructional materials and other requirements are met."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 386"
citation: "California AB 386 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Public postsecondary education: instructional materials: disabled students."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ruskin"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 33
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2009-02-23"
last_action: "2009-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/83dac861-8340-4c59-a28a-7e5fb82710ce"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB386"
source_hash: "1b586aa88e9eb42f870b291771fde24708da0bb7ee03f01a1210e5cd1f3a70e2"
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 386 (20092010) — Public postsecondary education: instructional materials: disabled students.

Existing law requires publishers and manufacturers of printed instructional material for use at public postsecondary educational institutions to provide the material, upon request, in an electronic format that is compatible with commonly used braille translation and speech synthesis software, when those materials are to be used by a student whose disability prevents him or her from using standard instructional materials and other requirements are met.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/23/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB386&version=20090AB38699INT)
2. **04/13/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB386&version=20090AB38698AMD)
3. **04/28/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB386&version=20090AB38697AMD)
4. **06/25/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB386&version=20090AB38696AMD)
5. **07/08/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB386&version=20090AB38695AMD)
6. **09/04/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB386&version=20090AB38694AMD)
7. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB386&version=20090AB38692CHP)
8. **AB386** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB386)
9. **09/21/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB386&version=20090AB38693ENR)

## Votes

- AB 386 RUSKIN Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent #21 AB386 Ruskin By Huff — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 386 Ruskin Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Ruskin — primary (person)
- Huff — coauthor (person)
- Romero — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-02-23** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-02-24** From printer. May be heard in committee March 26.
- **2009-03-09** Referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-31** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2009-04-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-04-14** Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-22** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Re-referred. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 21). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-04-28** 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`
- **2009-04-29** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-07** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (May 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-11** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-14** From Consent Calendar. To third reading.
- **2009-05-18** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 1552.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-18** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-06-04** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2009-06-15** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2009-06-25** 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, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2009-07-07** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 1). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-07-08** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-07-23** Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
- **2009-07-23** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2009-08-17** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-08-20** Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2009-08-24** Ordered to third reading.
- **2009-09-04** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2009-09-08** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-09-09** Ordered to Special Consent Calendar.
- **2009-09-10** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2391.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-09-11** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2009-09-11** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3365.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-09-28** Enrolled and to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2009-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 239, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/83dac861-8340-4c59-a28a-7e5fb82710ce`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).