CaliforniaPupil safety: comprehensive school safety plans: use of smartphones.
What it does
Existing law provides that it is the intent of the Legislature that all public schools, teaching kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, operated by a school district, in cooperation with specified entities and individuals, develop a comprehensive school safety plan, as provided. Existing law provides that school districts and county offices of education are responsible for the overall development of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of its schools, as provided. Existing law requires a comprehensive school safety plan to, among other things, identify appropriate strategies and programs that will provide or maintain a high level of school safety and address the school's procedures for complying with existing laws related to school safety.
More detail
Existing law requires the governing board of a school district, a county board of education, and the governing body of a charter school to, by July 1, 2026, develop and adopt a policy to limit or prohibit the use by its pupils of smartphones while the pupils are at a schoolsite or while the pupils are under the supervision and control of an employee or employees of that school district, county office of education, or charter school. Existing law, however, specifies circumstances in which a pupil may not be prohibited from possessing or using a smartphone, including, among others, in the case of an emergency or in response to a perceived threat of danger.
This bill would instead authorize the prohibition on the use of a smartphone by a pupil in the case of an emergency or in response to a perceived threat of danger if that circumstance is explicitly addressed in a comprehensive school safety plan.
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- Introduced
- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- To Governor
- Became Law
Looking ahead
No hearings or votes scheduled.
History
- 2025
- Oct 3Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 284, Statutes of 2025.Latest
- Oct 3Approved by the Governor Gavin Newsom.Became Law
- Sep 24Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.To Governor
- Sep 13Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 3504.).Major
- Vote recorded AB 962 Hoover Concurrence in Senate Amendments. Result: pass.Lower
- Sep 13Joint Rules 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3413.)
- Sep 12In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- Vote recorded 3rd Reading AB962 Hoover By Allen. Result: pass.Upper
- Sep 12Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2962.).Passed Senate
- Sep 8Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Sep 4Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.Major
- Jun 13Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.Major
- Jun 12From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 11).Major
- Jun 11
- Vote recorded Do pass as amended. Result: pass.Upper
- May 7Referred to Com. on ED.Minor
- Apr 24In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.Minor
- Vote recorded AB 962 Hoover Consent Calendar Second Day. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 24Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1280.)Passed Assembly
- Apr 21Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.Minor
- Apr 10From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 9).Minor
- Apr 9
- Vote recorded Do pass. To Consent Calendar. Result: pass.Lower
- Mar 10Referred to Com. on ED.Minor
- Feb 21From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- Feb 20Read first time. To print.Introduced