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type: "Bill"
title: "School employees: dismissal or suspension: hearings."
description: "Existing law prohibits a permanent school employee from being dismissed, except for one or more of certain enumerated causes, including immoral or unprofessional conduct."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 215"
citation: "California AB 215 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["School employees: dismissal or suspension: hearings."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Buchanan"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 26
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2013-01-31"
last_action: "2014-06-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a5781d63-72e1-4cb8-9b5b-3b7f146b758d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB215"
source_hash: "47b7403b5291eafc6ce17d783e90039e14607d45fff87c23e3d4601da5179e7b"
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 215 (20132014) — School employees: dismissal or suspension: hearings.
Existing law prohibits a permanent school employee from being dismissed, except for one or more of certain enumerated causes, including immoral or unprofessional conduct.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/31/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB215&version=20130AB21599INT)
2. **04/03/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB215&version=20130AB21598AMD)
3. **05/12/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB215&version=20130AB21597AMD)
4. **05/20/14 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB215&version=20130AB21596AMD)
5. **06/25/14 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB215&version=20130AB21594CHP)
6. **AB215** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB215)
7. **06/16/14 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB215&version=20130AB21595ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass. — **170** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — **90** (pass) · lower
- AB 215 CHESBRO Assembly Third Reading — **730** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB215 Buchanan By Padilla — **330** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **70** (pass) · upper
- AB 215 BUCHANAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **770** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **90** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **70** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Buchanan — primary (person)
- Block — coauthor (person)
- Correa — principal coauthor (person)
- Liu — principal coauthor (person)
- Monning — coauthor (person)
- Olsen — principal coauthor (person)
- Padilla — principal coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2013-01-31** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-01** From printer. May be heard in committee March 3.
- **2013-02-07** Referred to Com. on NAT. RES. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-04-17** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 17). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-04-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-02** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 1216.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-02** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-15** Referred to Com. on E.Q. `referral-committee`
- **2013-05-21** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2014-04-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E.Q. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-04-07** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2014-04-07** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2014-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2014-05-08** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2014-05-12** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-05-19** In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2014-05-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2014-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 23). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2014-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2014-06-09** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 3780.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2014-06-09** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2014-06-12** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 5491.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2014-06-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:45 a.m.
- **2014-06-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2014-06-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 55, Statutes of 2014.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a5781d63-72e1-4cb8-9b5b-3b7f146b758d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).