republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-1584.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pupil records: privacy: 3rd-party contracts: digital storage services and digital educational software."
description: "Existing law prohibits a school district from permitting access to pupil records to any person without parental consent or without a judicial order, except to specified persons under certain circumstances, including to a contractor or consultant with a legitimate educational interest who has a formal written agreement or contract with the school district regarding the provision of outsourced institutional services or functions by the contractor or consultant."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1584"
citation: "California AB 1584 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Pupil records: privacy: 3rd-party contracts: digital storage services and digital educational software."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Buchanan"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 29
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2014-02-03"
last_action: "2014-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2340d28c-4767-4576-90cc-2a50dd1ed238"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1584"
source_hash: "78f36af603a98bc307e2078f85a3edf3129e1fccb7c20b74447acbd07d38b950"
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 1584 (20132014) — Pupil records: privacy: 3rd-party contracts: digital storage services and digital educational software.

Existing law prohibits a school district from permitting access to pupil records to any person without parental consent or without a judicial order, except to specified persons under certain circumstances, including to a contractor or consultant with a legitimate educational interest who has a formal written agreement or contract with the school district regarding the provision of outsourced institutional services or functions by the contractor or consultant.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/03/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1584&version=20130AB158499INT)
2. **03/28/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1584&version=20130AB158498AMD)
3. **04/22/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1584&version=20130AB158497AMD)
4. **06/03/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1584&version=20130AB158496AMD)
5. **07/01/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1584&version=20130AB158495AMD)
6. **08/21/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1584&version=20130AB158494AMD)
7. **09/29/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1584&version=20130AB158492CHP)
8. **AB1584** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1584)
9. **08/29/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1584&version=20130AB158493ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1584 BUCHANAN Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1584 BUCHANAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **79–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1584 Buchanan By Jackson — **35–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Buchanan — primary (person)
- Chau — principal coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-03** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-04** From printer. May be heard in committee March 6.
- **2014-03-28** Referred to Coms. on ED. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-28** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-04-01** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-21** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 9). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-04-22** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-04-23** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-29** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 29). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-30** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 4765.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-15** Referred to Coms. on ED. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-03** 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, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-06-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-06-30** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-07-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-07** Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Jackson.
- **2014-08-21** From inactive file.
- **2014-08-21** Ordered to second reading.
- **2014-08-21** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2014-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4821.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-25** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-08-26** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6444.)
- **2014-08-26** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6467.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-09-08** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2014-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 800, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2340d28c-4767-4576-90cc-2a50dd1ed238`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).