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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Assembly Bill

AB 461: Truancy.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

AB 461 is a assembly bill introduced in the California Assembly on February 6, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Truancy. Primary sponsor: Patrick Ahrens (D). It lists 3 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (October 1, 2025): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 154, Statutes of 2025.

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Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

Existing law, the Compulsory Education Law, generally makes persons between the ages of 6 and 18 years of age subject to compulsory full-time education, unless exempted.

Existing law makes a parent or guardian of a pupil of 6 years of age or more who is in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 8, inclusive, and subject to compulsory full-time or continuing education, whose child is a chronic truant, as defined, who has failed to reasonably supervise and encourage the pupil’s school attendance, and who has been offered support services to address the pupil’s truancy, guilty of a misdemeanor that is punishable by a fine of up to $2,000, or imprisonment in a county jail for up to one year, or both that fine and imprisonment.

This bill would repeal that criminal offense.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 4

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Patrick AhrensPrimary sponsorDemocraticAssembly26
Lisa CalderonCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly56
Alex LeeCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly24
Sasha Renée PérezCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate25

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 154, Statutes of 2025.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
  4. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 14. Page 3234.).
  5. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
  6. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 9. Page 2705.).
  7. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  8. Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
  9. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  10. Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
  11. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 29).
  12. In committee: Referred to suspense file.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page