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type: "Bill"
title: "Education finance: school facilities: Kindergarten Through Grade 12 Schools and Local Community College Public Education Facilities Modernization, Repair, and Safety Bond Act of 2024."
description: "(1) The California Constitution prohibits the Legislature from creating a debt or liability that singly or in the aggregate with any previous debts or liabilities exceeds the sum of $300,000, except by an act that (1) authorizes the debt for a single object or work specified in the act, (2) has been passed by a 23 vote of all the Members elected to each house of the Legislature, (3) has been submitted to the people at a statewide general or primary election, and (4) has received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it at that election."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 247"
citation: "California AB 247 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education finance", "Kindergarten Through Grade 12 Schools and Local Community College Public Education Facilities Modernization", "Repair", "and Safety Bond Act of 2024", "school facilities"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Muratsuchi"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 36
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2023-01-18"
last_action: "2024-07-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0abd3585-449f-4ddf-becb-751a3b4aa7ac"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB247"
source_hash: "14d1a2286547f7e9409c05ff172ead31b8bc18ad02523e3a1c914ad587c8daf0"
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 247 (20232024) — Education finance: school facilities: Kindergarten Through Grade 12 Schools and Local Community College Public Education Facilities Modernization, Repair, and Safety Bond Act of 2024.
(1) The California Constitution prohibits the Legislature from creating a debt or liability that singly or in the aggregate with any previous debts or liabilities exceeds the sum of $300,000, except by an act that (1) authorizes the debt for a single object or work specified in the act, (2) has been passed by a 23 vote of all the Members elected to each house of the Legislature, (3) has been submitted to the people at a statewide general or primary election, and (4) has received a majority of all the votes cast for and against it at that election.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/18/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB247&version=20230AB24799INT)
2. **04/03/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB247&version=20230AB24798AMD)
3. **05/18/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB247&version=20230AB24797AMD)
4. **06/15/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB247&version=20230AB24796AMD)
5. **06/29/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB247&version=20230AB24794AMD)
6. **07/03/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB247&version=20230AB24792CHP)
7. **07/13/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB247&version=20230AB24795AMD)
8. **AB247** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB247)
9. **07/03/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB247&version=20230AB24793ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **62** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB247 Muratsuchi et al. By Newman Urgency Clause — **343** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **70** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Higher Education] — **70** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **120** (pass) · lower
- AB 247 Muratsuchi Assembly Third Reading — **660** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **110** (pass) · lower
- AB 247 MURATSUCHI Concurrence - Urgency Added — **721** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governance and Finance] — **70** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Muratsuchi — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Allen — coauthor (person)
- Alvarado-Gil — coauthor (person)
- Ashby — coauthor (person)
- Bennett — coauthor (person)
- Bryan — coauthor (person)
- Caballero — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Cortese — coauthor (person)
- Dodd — coauthor (person)
- Durazo — coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — coauthor (person)
- Glazer — author (person)
- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Hart — coauthor (person)
- Holden — coauthor (person)
- Kalra — coauthor (person)
- Laird — coauthor (person)
- Lee — coauthor (person)
- Limón — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — coauthor (person)
- Mike Fong — author (person)
- Newman — author (person)
- Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Petrie-Norris — coauthor (person)
- Portantino — coauthor (person)
- Reyes — coauthor (person)
- Roth — coauthor (person)
- Soria — coauthor (person)
- Stern — coauthor (person)
- Umberg — coauthor (person)
- Wahab — coauthor (person)
- Wendy Carrillo — coauthor (person)
- Wicks — coauthor (person)
- Wilson — author (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-01-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2023-01-19** From printer. May be heard in committee February 18.
- **2023-02-02** Referred to Coms. on ED. and HIGHER 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** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 12). Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-04-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-05-10** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2023-05-18** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (May 18). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2023-05-18** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 66. Noes 0. Page 1791.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2023-06-07** Referred to Coms. on ED. and GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2023-06-15** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-13** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (July 12). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2023-07-13** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-08-21** In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2023-09-01** In committee: Held under submission.
- **2024-06-24** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2024-06-24** Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-27** Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 8.)
- **2024-06-27** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-07-01** Joint Rule 10.5 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 8. Page 4850.)
- **2024-07-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-07-02** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-07-03** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 3. Page 4895.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-07-03** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after July 5 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2024-07-03** Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
- **2024-07-03** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 6159.)
- **2024-07-03** Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 6160.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-07-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 7:30 p.m.
- **2024-07-03** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-07-03** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 81, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0abd3585-449f-4ddf-becb-751a3b4aa7ac`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).