republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-1611.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "School employees: scope of representation: notice."
description: "Existing law gives public school employee organizations the right to represent their members in their employment relations with public school employers, and limits the scope of representation to matters relating to wages, hours of employment, and other terms and conditions of employment, as defined. Existing law provides that all other matters are reserved to the public school employer and may not be a subject of meeting and negotiating."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 1611"
citation: "California AB 1611 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["School employees: scope of representation: notice."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bonta"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2014-02-06"
last_action: "2014-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8230c9f6-795f-4674-b9ac-0aa962befc1e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1611"
source_hash: "14d231f31353862ff795b2c1d00619df2d44938d8e3f02dd77433987e9e8ea2d"
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 1611 (20132014) — School employees: scope of representation: notice.

Existing law gives public school employee organizations the right to represent their members in their employment relations with public school employers, and limits the scope of representation to matters relating to wages, hours of employment, and other terms and conditions of employment, as defined. Existing law provides that all other matters are reserved to the public school employer and may not be a subject of meeting and negotiating.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/06/14 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1611&version=20130AB161199INT)
2. **03/20/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1611&version=20130AB161198AMD)
3. **04/21/14 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1611&version=20130AB161197AMD)
4. **09/29/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1611&version=20130AB161195CHP)
5. **AB1611** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1611)
6. **08/15/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1611&version=20130AB161196ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass. — **12–5** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1611 Bonta By Torres — **23–9** (pass) · upper
- AB 1611 BONTA Assembly Third Reading — **58–19** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **5–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **3–2** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bonta — primary (person)
- Skinner — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2014-02-06** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2014-02-07** From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
- **2014-02-14** Referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S. `referral-committee`
- **2014-03-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-03-24** Re-referred to Com. on P.E.,R. & S.S. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-04-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (April 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-05-15** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 19. Page 4940.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-05-15** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2014-05-22** Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2014-06-09** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2014-06-24** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-05** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 4). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-08-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-08-14** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 9. Page 4497.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-08-14** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2014-08-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2014-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 801, Statutes of 2014.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8230c9f6-795f-4674-b9ac-0aa962befc1e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).