republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20092010/ab-691.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "School districts: 4-day school week."
description: "Existing law authorizes the Pacific Unified School District, the Leggett Valley Unified School District, the Reeds Creek Elementary School District, the Potter Valley Community Unified School District, the Borrego Springs Unified School District, the Julian Union Elementary School District, the Julian Union High School District, and the Warner Unified School District to operate one or more schools in their districts on a 4-day school week, so long as those school districts comply with specified requirements, including the annual provision of at least 560 hours of instructional time for kindergarten, 700 hours of instructional time for grades 1, 2, and 3, and 845 hours of instructional time for grades 4 to 8, inclusive."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 691"
citation: "California AB 691 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["School districts: 4-day school week."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gilmore"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2009-02-26"
last_action: "2009-10-11"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e4f1d10c-1b9f-4ba0-aa23-2a0c25dd52d4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB691"
source_hash: "662f8ff5afcafabac152692476c00f38894c9ad79daaef95eab36c5427578e76"
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 691 (20092010) — School districts: 4-day school week.

Existing law authorizes the Pacific Unified School District, the Leggett Valley Unified School District, the Reeds Creek Elementary School District, the Potter Valley Community Unified School District, the Borrego Springs Unified School District, the Julian Union Elementary School District, the Julian Union High School District, and the Warner Unified School District to operate one or more schools in their districts on a 4-day school week, so long as those school districts comply with specified requirements, including the annual provision of at least 560 hours of instructional time for kindergarten, 700 hours of instructional time for grades 1, 2, and 3, and 845 hours of instructional time for grades 4 to 8, inclusive.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/26/09 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB691&version=20090AB69199INT)
2. **03/26/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB691&version=20090AB69198AMD)
3. **05/04/09 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB691&version=20090AB69197AMD)
4. **07/23/09 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB691&version=20090AB69196AMD)
5. **10/11/09 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB691&version=20090AB69194CHP)
6. **AB691** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB691)
7. **09/04/09 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB691&version=20090AB69195ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 691 GILMORE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 691 GILMORE Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Assembly 3rd Reading AB691 Gilmore By Benoit — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gilmore — primary (person)
- Romero — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2009-02-26** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2009-02-27** From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
- **2009-03-26** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2009-03-26** 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`
- **2009-03-27** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2009-04-30** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 22). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-04** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-05** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2009-05-21** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 20). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2009-05-26** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-05-28** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 3. Page 1741.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2009-06-11** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2009-07-07** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2009-07-23** From committee: Amend, do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (July 15). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2009-07-23** Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-08-18** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2009-08-19** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2009-08-31** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2017.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2009-09-01** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 3 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2009-09-02** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 2889.)
- **2009-09-02** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 73. Noes 2. Page 2902.) `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2009-09-08** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:45 p.m.
- **2009-10-11** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2009-10-11** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 252, Statutes of 2009.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e4f1d10c-1b9f-4ba0-aa23-2a0c25dd52d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).