republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-1871.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Charter schools: free and reduced-price meals."
description: "(1) Existing law requires each school district or county superintendent of schools maintaining any kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to provide for each needy pupil one nutritionally adequate free or reduced-price meal during each schoolday, and authorizes them to use funds made available through any federal or state program the purpose of which includes the provision of meals to a pupil, including the federal School Breakfast Program, the federal National School Lunch Program, the federal Summer Food Service Program, the federal Seamless Summer Option, or the state meal program, or to provide those meals at the expense of the school district or county office of education."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 1871"
citation: "California AB 1871 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Charter schools: free and reduced-price meals."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bonta"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2018-01-16"
last_action: "2018-09-18"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f66ef97-0ecf-41fa-a47e-764106c3adbe"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1871"
source_hash: "872b9d905914d59c0c1b2c65c73e4f9980e7c1af6fe8f57465f7f164f44479d3"
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 1871 (20172018) — Charter schools: free and reduced-price meals.

(1) Existing law requires each school district or county superintendent of schools maintaining any kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to provide for each needy pupil one nutritionally adequate free or reduced-price meal during each schoolday, and authorizes them to use funds made available through any federal or state program the purpose of which includes the provision of meals to a pupil, including the federal School Breakfast Program, the federal National School Lunch Program, the federal Summer Food Service Program, the federal Seamless Summer Option, or the state meal program, or to provide those meals at the expense of the school district or county office of education.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/16/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1871&version=20170AB187199INT)
2. **03/14/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1871&version=20170AB187198AMD)
3. **04/19/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1871&version=20170AB187197AMD)
4. **05/25/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1871&version=20170AB187196AMD)
5. **09/18/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1871&version=20170AB187194CHP)
6. **AB1871** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1871)
7. **08/24/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1871&version=20170AB187195ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB1871 Bonta et al. By Leyva — **31–6** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **12–4** (pass) · lower
- AB 1871 BONTA Assembly Third Reading — **56–16** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bonta — primary (person)
- Chiu — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-01-17** From printer. May be heard in committee February 16.
- **2018-01-29** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-14** 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`
- **2018-03-15** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-21** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2018-04-18** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 11). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-04-19** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-04-23** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-02** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-25** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 25). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-05-25** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-05-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-30** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 16. Page 5520.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-05-31** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-06-07** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2018-06-25** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2018-08-17** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-08-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 5649.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-23** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2018-08-28** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2018-09-18** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-18** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 480, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7f66ef97-0ecf-41fa-a47e-764106c3adbe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).