republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-1354.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pupil instruction: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders."
description: "Existing law requires the State Department of Education to incorporate materials relating to civil rights, human rights violations, genocide, slavery, and the Holocaust into publications that provide examples of curriculum resources for teacher use, consistent with the subject frameworks on history and social science and other requirements. Existing law establishes the Instructional Quality Commission and requires the commission to, among other things, recommend curriculum frameworks to the State Board of Education."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 1354"
citation: "California AB 1354 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders", "Pupil instruction"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mike Fong"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2023-02-16"
last_action: "2023-09-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fb90569a-94b7-4ea6-9dca-5bab1624a93d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1354"
source_hash: "e42638ea0268c0449d54533dde492e097f5c59e29d2484f4f13a40ee959fd376"
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 1354 (20232024) — Pupil instruction: Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders.

Existing law requires the State Department of Education to incorporate materials relating to civil rights, human rights violations, genocide, slavery, and the Holocaust into publications that provide examples of curriculum resources for teacher use, consistent with the subject frameworks on history and social science and other requirements. Existing law establishes the Instructional Quality Commission and requires the commission to, among other things, recommend curriculum frameworks to the State Board of Education.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/16/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1354&version=20230AB135499INT)
2. **04/03/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1354&version=20230AB135498AMD)
3. **09/01/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1354&version=20230AB135496CHP)
4. **AB1354** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1354)
5. **08/21/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB1354&version=20230AB135497ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1354 Mike Fong Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1354 Mike Fong et al. By Min — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Mike Fong — primary (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Min — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — principal coauthor (person)
- Stephanie Nguyen — coauthor (person)
- Ting — author (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2023-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2023-03-02** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-03** 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-1, reading-2`
- **2023-04-04** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2023-04-13** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-04-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (April 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-27** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-04** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1463.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-17** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-26** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2023-06-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-08-17** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2137.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-08-17** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2023-08-29** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2023-09-01** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-09-01** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 140, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fb90569a-94b7-4ea6-9dca-5bab1624a93d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).