Senator Pérez anchors a measure that treats pupil safety as an overarching, schoolwide concern by broadening how safety planning integrates protections against child abuse and sex offenses. The bill would replace and expand core school safety requirements to require a comprehensive school safety plan that, in addition to its existing scope, includes child abuse or neglect reporting procedures and, no later than a planned update cycle or by July 1, 2026, explicit procedures designed to supervise and protect children from child abuse or neglect and sex offenses. It also requires safety plans to assess all crime occurring on school campuses or at school-related functions, not solely school-related crime.
Key mechanisms and details include: the comprehensive safety plan would explicitly incorporate child abuse or neglect reporting procedures and, at the next review, address supervision and protection from abuse and sex offenses; the definition of violent crime would be expanded and the plan would authorize notifying parents and staff about violent crimes and sex offenses, with existing liability protections preserved; the bill would extend prohibitions on employment or continued employment to individuals convicted of sex offenses in the same way currently restricted for violent or serious felonies; it would also apply egregious misconduct reporting and related disclosure duties to private schools and diagnostic centers, expanding the reporting ecosystem beyond public entities. In addition, noncertificated employees and private school staff would be subject to new reporting and credentialing-related triggers tied to egregious misconduct.
A third pillar Establishes a statewide data system and related implementation steps: the bill would require the commission, by a defined deadline and contingent on funding, to create a data system capturing noncertificated staff and private school personnel related to egregious misconduct investigations, including statuses and substantiated outcomes; local employers would review the data prior to hiring for noncertificated positions and would report hiring, position changes, and termination dates to the system within specified windows. The system would be administered by the commission but would not verify the truth of submissions; it would record substantiated investigations and their outcomes while excluding unfounded or inconclusive results. Adoption of policies addressing professional boundaries and facility supervision would occur by mid-2026, and the bill contemplates collaboration with risk pools to identify best practices, with some data system costs contingent on annual budget appropriations.
Context and implementation considerations include broadening mandated reporting to cover a wider array of adults and volunteers who supervise or interact with pupils, expanding training requirements for mandated reporters, and extending education and guidance around abuse prevention to child care settings and private schools. The measure contemplates a sunset for certain provisions related to school safety plan evaluations and requires local agencies to implement new boundary and facilities policies, with the overall framework imposing state-mandated local duties. It also introduces procedural provisions related to notices about immigration enforcement in school settings and protocols for emergency instructional continuity, while linking funding and reimbursement to implementation timelines and the state mandate process.
![]() Al MuratsuchiD Assemblymember | Bill Author | Not Contacted | |
![]() Tom LackeyR Assemblymember | Bill Author | Not Contacted | |
![]() Dawn AddisD Assemblymember | Bill Author | Not Contacted | |
![]() Juan AlanisR Assemblymember | Bill Author | Not Contacted | |
![]() Josh HooverR Assemblymember | Bill Author | Not Contacted |
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Senator Pérez anchors a measure that treats pupil safety as an overarching, schoolwide concern by broadening how safety planning integrates protections against child abuse and sex offenses. The bill would replace and expand core school safety requirements to require a comprehensive school safety plan that, in addition to its existing scope, includes child abuse or neglect reporting procedures and, no later than a planned update cycle or by July 1, 2026, explicit procedures designed to supervise and protect children from child abuse or neglect and sex offenses. It also requires safety plans to assess all crime occurring on school campuses or at school-related functions, not solely school-related crime.
Key mechanisms and details include: the comprehensive safety plan would explicitly incorporate child abuse or neglect reporting procedures and, at the next review, address supervision and protection from abuse and sex offenses; the definition of violent crime would be expanded and the plan would authorize notifying parents and staff about violent crimes and sex offenses, with existing liability protections preserved; the bill would extend prohibitions on employment or continued employment to individuals convicted of sex offenses in the same way currently restricted for violent or serious felonies; it would also apply egregious misconduct reporting and related disclosure duties to private schools and diagnostic centers, expanding the reporting ecosystem beyond public entities. In addition, noncertificated employees and private school staff would be subject to new reporting and credentialing-related triggers tied to egregious misconduct.
A third pillar Establishes a statewide data system and related implementation steps: the bill would require the commission, by a defined deadline and contingent on funding, to create a data system capturing noncertificated staff and private school personnel related to egregious misconduct investigations, including statuses and substantiated outcomes; local employers would review the data prior to hiring for noncertificated positions and would report hiring, position changes, and termination dates to the system within specified windows. The system would be administered by the commission but would not verify the truth of submissions; it would record substantiated investigations and their outcomes while excluding unfounded or inconclusive results. Adoption of policies addressing professional boundaries and facility supervision would occur by mid-2026, and the bill contemplates collaboration with risk pools to identify best practices, with some data system costs contingent on annual budget appropriations.
Context and implementation considerations include broadening mandated reporting to cover a wider array of adults and volunteers who supervise or interact with pupils, expanding training requirements for mandated reporters, and extending education and guidance around abuse prevention to child care settings and private schools. The measure contemplates a sunset for certain provisions related to school safety plan evaluations and requires local agencies to implement new boundary and facilities policies, with the overall framework imposing state-mandated local duties. It also introduces procedural provisions related to notices about immigration enforcement in school settings and protocols for emergency instructional continuity, while linking funding and reimbursement to implementation timelines and the state mandate process.
Ayes | Noes | NVR | Total | Result |
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37 | 0 | 3 | 40 | PASS |
![]() Al MuratsuchiD Assemblymember | Bill Author | Not Contacted | |
![]() Tom LackeyR Assemblymember | Bill Author | Not Contacted | |
![]() Dawn AddisD Assemblymember | Bill Author | Not Contacted | |
![]() Juan AlanisR Assemblymember | Bill Author | Not Contacted | |
![]() Josh HooverR Assemblymember | Bill Author | Not Contacted |