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SEC. File Nos. 333-135770

811-21928

UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

FORM N-1A

Registration Statement

Under

the Securities Act of 1933

Post-Effective Amendment No. 23

and

Registration Statement

Under

the Investment Company Act of 1940

Amendment No. 26

SHORT-TERM BOND FUND OF AMERICA

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in Charter)

333 South Hope Street

Los Angeles, California 90071-1406

(Address of Principal Executive Offices)

Registrant's telephone number, including area code:

(213) 486-9200

Steven I. Koszalka, Secretary

Short-Term Bond Fund of America

333 South Hope Street

Los Angeles, California 90071-1406

(Name and Address of Agent for Service)

Copies to:

Michael Glazer

Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP

300 South Grand Avenue, 22nd Floor

Los Angeles, California 90071-3132

(Counsel for the Registrant)

Approximate date of proposed public offering:

It is proposed that this filing become effective immediately pursuant to paragraph (b) of Rule 485.

SIGNATURES

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940, the Registrant certifies that it meets all of the requirements for effectiveness of this Registration Statement under rule 485(b) under the Securities Act of 1933 and has duly caused this Registration Statement to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned, duly authorized, in the City of Los Angeles, and State of California, on the 24^th day of January, 2017.

SHORT-TERM BOND FUND OF AMERICA

/s/ John R. Queen

John R. Queen, President

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Act of 1933, this Registration Statement has been signed below on January 24, 2017, by the following persons in the capacities indicated.

	Signature	Title

(1)	Principal Executive Officer
	/s/ John R. Queen	President
	(John R. Queen)

(2)	Principal Financial Officer and Principal Accounting Officer:
	/s/ Brian C. Janssen	Treasurer
	(Brian C. Janssen)

(3)	Trustees:
	William H. Baribault*	Trustee
	James G. Ellis*	Trustee
	Leonard R. Fuller*	Trustee
	Michael C. Gitlin*	Trustee
	R. Clark Hooper*	Chairman of the Board (Independent and Non-Executive)
	Merit E. Janow*	Trustee
	Laurel B. Mitchell*	Trustee
	Frank M. Sanchez*	Trustee
	John H. Smet*	Vice Chairman of the Board
	Margaret Spellings*	Trustee
	Steadman Upham*	Trustee
	*By: /s/ Steven I. Koszalka
	(Steven I. Koszalka, pursuant to a power of attorney filed herewith)

Counsel represents that this amendment does not contain disclosures that would make the amendment ineligible for effectiveness under the provisions of Rule 485(b).

/s/ Rachel V. Nass

(Rachel V. Nass, Counsel)

POWER OF ATTORNEY

I, William H. Baribault, the undersigned Board member of the following registered investment companies (collectively, the “Funds”):

American Balanced Fund (File No. 002-10758, File No. 811-00066)

American Funds College Target Date Series (File No. 333-180729, File No. 811-22692)

American Funds Corporate Bond Fund (File No. 333-183929, File No. 811-22744)

American Funds Developing World Growth and Income Fund (File No. 333-190913, File No. 811-22881)

American Funds Emerging Markets Bond Fund

American Funds Global High-Income Opportunities Fund (File No. 333-183930, File No. 811-22745)

The American Funds Income Series – U.S. Government Securities Fund (File No. 002-98199, File No. 811-04318)

American Funds Inflation Linked Bond Fund (File No. 333-183931, File No. 811-22746)

American Funds Insurance Series (File No. 002-86838, File No. 811-03857)

American Funds Insurance Series

American Funds Mortgage Fund (File No. 333-168595, File No. 811-22449)

American Funds Portfolio Series (File No. 333-178936, File No. 811-22656)

American Funds Retirement Income Portfolio Series (File No. 333-203797, File No. 811-23053)

American Funds Short-Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund (File No. 033-26431, File No. 811-05750)

American Funds Strategic Bond Fund (File No. 333-207474, File No. 811-23101)

American Funds Target Date Retirement Series (File No. 333-138648, File No. 811-21981)

American Funds Tax-Exempt Fund of New York (File No. 333-168594, File No. 811-22448)

The American Funds Tax-Exempt Series II – The Tax-Exempt Fund of California (File No. 033-06180, File No. 811-04694)

American Funds U.S. Government Money Market Fund (File No. 333-157162, File No. 811-22277)

American High-Income Municipal Bond Fund (File No. 033-80630, File No. 811-08576)

American High-Income Trust (File No. 033-17917, File No. 811-05364)

The Bond Fund of America (File No. 002-50700, File No. 811-02444)

Capital World Bond Fund (File No. 033-12447, File No. 811-05104)

The Income Fund of America (File No. 002-33371, File No. 811-01880)

Intermediate Bond Fund of America (File No. 033-19514, File No. 811-05446)

International Growth and Income Fund (File No. 333-152323, File No. 811-22215)

Limited Term Tax-Exempt Bond Fund of America (File No. 033-66214, File No. 811-07888)

Short-Term Bond Fund of America (File No. 333-135770, File No. 811-21928)

The Tax-Exempt Bond Fund of America (File No. 002-49291, File No. 811-02421)

hereby revoke all previous powers of attorney I have signed and otherwise act in my name and behalf in matters involving the Funds and do hereby constitute and appoint

Jennifer L. Butler

Steven I. Koszalka

Michael W. Stockton

Jane Y. Chung

Susan K. Countess

Julie E. Lawton

Viviane T. Russo

Raymond F. Sullivan, Jr.

Brian C. Janssen

Dori Laskin

Gregory F. Niland

Jeffrey P. Regal

each of them singularly, my true and lawful attorneys-in-fact, with full power of substitution, and with full power to each of them, to sign for me and in my name in the appropriate capacities, all Registration Statements of the Funds on Form N-1A, any and all subsequent Amendments, or Post-Effective Amendments to said Registration Statement on Form N-1A or any successor thereto, and any supplements or other instruments in connection therewith, and generally to do all such things in my name and behalf in connection therewith as said attorneys-in-fact deem necessary or appropriate, to comply with the provisions of the Securities Act of 1933 and the Investment Company Act of 1940 as amended, and all related requirements of the U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission. I hereby ratify and confirm all that said attorneys-in-fact or their substitutes may do or cause to be done by virtue hereof.

EXECUTED at Los Angeles, CA, this 1^st day of April, 2016.

(City, State)

/s/ William H. Baribault

William H. Baribault, Board member

POWER OF ATTORNEY

I, James G. Ellis, the undersigned Board member of the following registered investment companies (collectively, the “Funds”):

AMCAP Fund (File No. 002-26516, File No. 811-01435)

American Funds College Target Date Series (File No. 333-180729, File No. 811-22692)

American Funds Corporate Bond Fund (File No. 333-183929, File No. 811-22744)

American Funds Emerging Markets Bond Fund

American Funds Global Balanced Fund (File No. 333-170605, File No. 811-22496)