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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "Classified school district and community college employees: probation: promotion."
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description: "Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to employ persons for positions not requiring certification qualifications and the governing board of a community college district to employ persons for positions that are not academic positions. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district or community college district to classify those employees and positions and requires that they be known as the classified service. Existing law establishes procedures through which a school district or community college district may be authorized to adopt a merit system with respect to its personnel. Existing law requires a school district or community college district that has a merit system to appoint a personnel commission to prescribe, amend, and interpret rules regarding the merit system. Existing law deems a person who has served an initial probationary period in a class not to exceed 6 months or 130 days of paid service, whichever is longer, as prescribed by the rules of the commission, to be in the permanent classified service, except as provided. Existing law requires that, in a school district or community college district that has adopted a merit system for its classified employees, an employee shall not attain permanent status in the classified service until the employee has completed a probationary period in a class."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20212022"
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identifier: "SB 874"
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citation: "California SB 874 (20212022)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Classified school district and community college employees: probation: promotion."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Cortese"]
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version_count: 5
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action_count: 21
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vote_count: 4
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first_action: "2022-01-24"
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last_action: "2022-08-15"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/705adb0b-1d06-4936-9302-15434eb2fabe"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB874"
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source_hash: "e3f4f33a69d523c2bd45fd2b4252accf78a159bb8fb7debe8256ca8bf6141785"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California SB 874 (20212022) — Classified school district and community college employees: probation: promotion.
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Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to employ persons for positions not requiring certification qualifications and the governing board of a community college district to employ persons for positions that are not academic positions. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district or community college district to classify those employees and positions and requires that they be known as the classified service. Existing law establishes procedures through which a school district or community college district may be authorized to adopt a merit system with respect to its personnel. Existing law requires a school district or community college district that has a merit system to appoint a personnel commission to prescribe, amend, and interpret rules regarding the merit system. Existing law deems a person who has served an initial probationary period in a class not to exceed 6 months or 130 days of paid service, whichever is longer, as prescribed by the rules of the commission, to be in the permanent classified service, except as provided. Existing law requires that, in a school district or community college district that has adopted a merit system for its classified employees, an employee shall not attain permanent status in the classified service until the employee has completed a probationary period in a class.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **01/24/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB874&version=20210SB87499INT)
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2. **03/09/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB874&version=20210SB87498AMD)
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3. **08/15/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB874&version=20210SB87496CHP)
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4. **SB874** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB874)
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5. **08/02/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB874&version=20210SB87497ENR)
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## Votes
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- SB 874 Cortese Senate Third Reading By Kalra — **75–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass — **4–0** (pass) · upper
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- 3rd Reading SB874 Cortese et al. — **33–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Cortese — primary (person)
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- Kalra — coauthor (person)
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- Newman — coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2022-01-24** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
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- **2022-01-25** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 24.
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- **2022-02-02** Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
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- **2022-02-07** Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
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- **2022-02-07** (Ayes 31. Noes 6.)
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- **2022-02-07** Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 2880.)
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- **2022-03-09** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2022-03-29** Set for hearing April 4.
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- **2022-04-05** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 0. Page 3309.) (April 4). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-04-06** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2022-05-09** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 3641.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2022-05-09** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
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- **2022-05-19** Referred to Com. on P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
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- **2022-06-22** Coauthors revised.
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- **2022-06-22** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 22). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2022-06-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2022-08-01** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 5712.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2022-08-01** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
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- **2022-08-05** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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- **2022-08-15** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2022-08-15** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 150, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/705adb0b-1d06-4936-9302-15434eb2fabe`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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