CA AB 629
enactedSchool districts: equipment inventory.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
Quick answers
Did CA AB 629 pass?
Yes. CA AB 629 has been enacted into law as of 2025-07-28. Latest recorded action (2025-07-28): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 62, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA AB 629 about?
Existing law establishes the system of public elementary and secondary schools in this state and provides for their funding and governance. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to establish and maintain an inventory, as provided, of each item of equipment acquired by the school district that has a current market value that exceeds $500. This bill would increase the above-described threshold value from $500 to instead be $1,500. The bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to biennially adjust that threshold market value by a specified inflation factor, rounded to the nearest $50, and to post the adjusted threshold market value to the State Department of Education's internet website.
Who sponsors CA AB 629?
Ward is the primary sponsor of CA AB 629.
Description
Existing law establishes the system of public elementary and secondary schools in this state and provides for their funding and governance. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district to establish and maintain an inventory, as provided, of each item of equipment acquired by the school district that has a current market value that exceeds $500. This bill would increase the above-described threshold value from $500 to instead be $1,500. The bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction to biennially adjust that threshold market value by a specified inflation factor, rounded to the nearest $50, and to post the adjusted threshold market value to the State Department of Education's internet website.
- Introduced
- 2025-03-10
- Latest action
- 2025-07-28 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 62, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Wardauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
2025-02-13
Read first time. To print.
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2025-02-14
From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
2025-03-10
Referred to Com. on ED.
referral-committee
2025-03-10
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended.
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2025-03-11
Re-referred to Com. on ED.
referral-committee
2025-03-27
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-04-09
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
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2025-05-23
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23).
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2025-05-27
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-06-02
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1841.)
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2025-06-03
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-06-11
Referred to Com. on ED.
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2025-06-25
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-07-07
From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2025-07-08
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2025-07-10
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2042.).
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2025-07-10
In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling.
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2025-07-15
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
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2025-07-28
Approved by the Governor.
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2025-07-28
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 62, Statutes of 2025.
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Votes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-03-26 · pass · 9-0
Member-level votes (9)
- Patel: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Addis: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
Do pass.
2025-05-23 · pass · 14-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Calderon: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Hart: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Solache: yes
- Ta: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Fong: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Sanchez: other
AB 629 Ward Assembly Third Reading
2025-06-02 · pass · 79-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Rivas: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ward: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Patel: yes
- Solache: yes
- Chen: yes
- Bonta: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Lee: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Papan: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Davies: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Berman: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Soria: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Ta: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Flora: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Addis: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Krell: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Fong: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Haney: yes
- Hart: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Bains: yes
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-06-25 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Cortese: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Laird: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Choi: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
Consent Calendar 2nd
2025-07-10 · pass · 37-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Grayson: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Becker: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Choi: yes
- Stern: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Niello: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Jones: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Laird: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Dahle: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Grove: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Allen: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Alvarado-Gil: yes
- Limón: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Pérez: other
- Reyes: other
- Umberg: other
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