CA AB 503
enactedSchool facilities: Civic Center Act: direct costs.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
Quick answers
Did CA AB 503 pass?
Yes. CA AB 503 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-01. Latest recorded action (2025-10-01): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 156, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA AB 503 about?
The Civic Center Act authorizes, and in some instances requires, the governing board of a school district to allow the use of school facilities or grounds as a civic center, for specified purposes. The act authorizes or requires, as applicable, the governing board of a school district to charge a fee, not to exceed the school district's direct costs, as defined, for use of its school facilities or grounds. Existing law, for these purposes, defines "direct costs" to mean the costs of supplies, utilities, janitorial services, services of school district employees, and salaries paid to school district employees directly associated with the administration of this section necessitated by the entity's use of the school facilities or grounds. Existing law, until January 1, 2025, expanded the definition of direct costs to include a specified share of the operating and maintenance costs proportional to the entity's use of the school facilities or grounds and a share of the costs for maintenance, repair, restoration, and refurbishment of the school facilities or grounds proportional to that entity's use of the school facilities or grounds, as specified. This bill would restore, indefinitely, the above-described expanded definition of direct costs that was repealed as of January 1, 2025. The bill would require funds collected relating to maintenance, repair, restoration, and refurbishment to be deposited into a special fund and to be used only for certain purposes. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Who sponsors CA AB 503?
Mark González is the primary sponsor of CA AB 503.
Description
The Civic Center Act authorizes, and in some instances requires, the governing board of a school district to allow the use of school facilities or grounds as a civic center, for specified purposes. The act authorizes or requires, as applicable, the governing board of a school district to charge a fee, not to exceed the school district's direct costs, as defined, for use of its school facilities or grounds. Existing law, for these purposes, defines "direct costs" to mean the costs of supplies, utilities, janitorial services, services of school district employees, and salaries paid to school district employees directly associated with the administration of this section necessitated by the entity's use of the school facilities or grounds. Existing law, until January 1, 2025, expanded the definition of direct costs to include a specified share of the operating and maintenance costs proportional to the entity's use of the school facilities or grounds and a share of the costs for maintenance, repair, restoration, and refurbishment of the school facilities or grounds proportional to that entity's use of the school facilities or grounds, as specified. This bill would restore, indefinitely, the above-described expanded definition of direct costs that was repealed as of January 1, 2025. The bill would require funds collected relating to maintenance, repair, restoration, and refurbishment to be deposited into a special fund and to be used only for certain purposes. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
- Introduced
- 2025-02-25
- Latest action
- 2025-10-01 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 156, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Mark Gonzálezauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
2025-02-10
Read first time. To print.
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2025-02-11
From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
2025-02-24
Referred to Com. on ED.
referral-committee
2025-02-25
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended.
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2025-02-26
Re-referred to Com. on ED.
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2025-04-10
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 9).
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2025-04-21
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2025-04-24
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1280.).
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2025-04-24
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-05-07
Referred to Com. on ED.
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2025-06-11
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 11).
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2025-06-12
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-09-02
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2411.).
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2025-09-02
In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
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2025-09-09
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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2025-10-01
Approved by the Governor.
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2025-10-01
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 156, Statutes of 2025.
became-law
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Votes
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2025-04-09 · pass · 9-0
Member-level votes (9)
- Castillo: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Patel: yes
- Addis: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Alvarez: yes
AB 503 Mark González Consent Calendar Second Day
2025-04-24 · pass · 75-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Sanchez: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Solache: yes
- Alanis: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Addis: yes
- Haney: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Hart: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Papan: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Gallagher: other
- Chen: other
- Lackey: other
- Harabedian: other
- Ellis: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Fong: yes
- Ward: yes
- Bains: yes
- Berman: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Davies: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Soria: yes
- Ta: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Krell: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Patel: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Lee: yes
- Flora: yes
- Rogers: yes
Do pass
2025-06-11 · pass · 6-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Laird: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Choi: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Gonzalez: other
3rd Reading AB503 Mark González By Pérez Urgency Clause
2025-09-02 · pass · 40-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Laird: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Jones: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Choi: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Becker: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Niello: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Grove: yes
- Allen: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Stern: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Limón: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
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