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    SB-848
    Education

    Pupil safety: school employee misconduct: child abuse prevention.

    Enrolled
    CA
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    2025-2026 Regular Session
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    Key Takeaways

    • Expands safety plans to cover child abuse and sex offense protections.
    • Requires updating the safety plan by July 1, 2026 to address supervision and protection.
    • Creates a statewide data system for egregious misconduct in noncertificated staff and private schools.
    • Requires annual mandated reporter training for all staff and volunteers.

    Summary

    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.

    Key Dates

    Vote on Senate Floor
    Senate Floor
    Vote on Senate Floor
    Unfinished Business SB848 Pérez et al. Concurrence
    Vote on Senate Floor
    Senate Floor
    Vote on Senate Floor
    Unfinished Business SB848 Pérez et al. Concurrence
    Vote on Assembly Floor
    Assembly Floor
    Vote on Assembly Floor
    SB 848 Pérez Senate Third Reading By Wicks
    Assembly Appropriations Hearing
    Assembly Committee
    Assembly Appropriations Hearing
    Do pass as amended
    Assembly Public Safety Hearing
    Assembly Committee
    Assembly Public Safety Hearing
    Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
    Assembly Education Hearing
    Assembly Committee
    Assembly Education Hearing
    Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety]
    Vote on Senate Floor
    Senate Floor
    Vote on Senate Floor
    Senate 3rd Reading SB848 Pérez
    Senate Appropriations Hearing
    Senate Committee
    Senate Appropriations Hearing
    Do pass as amended
    Senate Appropriations Hearing
    Senate Committee
    Senate Appropriations Hearing
    Placed on suspense file
    Senate Public Safety Hearing
    Senate Committee
    Senate Public Safety Hearing
    Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]
    Senate Education Hearing
    Senate Committee
    Senate Education Hearing
    Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety]
    Introduced
    Senate Floor
    Introduced
    Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

    Contacts

    Profile
    Al MuratsuchiD
    Assemblymember
    Bill Author
    Not Contacted
    Not Contacted
    Profile
    Tom LackeyR
    Assemblymember
    Bill Author
    Not Contacted
    Not Contacted
    Profile
    Dawn AddisD
    Assemblymember
    Bill Author
    Not Contacted
    Not Contacted
    Profile
    Juan AlanisR
    Assemblymember
    Bill Author
    Not Contacted
    Not Contacted
    Profile
    Josh HooverR
    Assemblymember
    Bill Author
    Not Contacted
    Not Contacted
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    Al MuratsuchiD
    Assemblymember
    Bill Author
    Profile
    Tom LackeyR
    Assemblymember
    Bill Author
    Profile
    Dawn AddisD
    Assemblymember
    Bill Author
    Profile
    Juan AlanisR
    Assemblymember
    Bill Author
    Profile
    Josh HooverR
    Assemblymember
    Bill Author
    Profile
    Josh LowenthalD
    Assemblymember
    Bill Author
    Profile
    Sasha Renee PerezD
    Senator
    Bill Author

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    Introduced By

    Sasha Renee Perez
    Sasha Renee PerezD
    California State Senator
    Co-Authors
    Al Muratsuchi
    Al MuratsuchiD
    California State Assembly Member
    Dawn Addis
    Dawn AddisD
    California State Assembly Member
    Josh Lowenthal
    Josh LowenthalD
    California State Assembly Member
    Juan Alanis
    Juan AlanisR
    California State Assembly Member
    Tom Lackey
    Tom LackeyR
    California State Assembly Member
    Josh Hoover
    Josh HooverR
    California State Assembly Member
    70% progression
    Bill has passed both houses in identical form and is being prepared for the Governor (9/13/2025)

    Latest Voting History

    View History
    September 13, 2025
    PASS
    Senate Floor
    Vote on Senate Floor
    AyesNoesNVRTotalResult
    370340PASS

    Key Takeaways

    • Expands safety plans to cover child abuse and sex offense protections.
    • Requires updating the safety plan by July 1, 2026 to address supervision and protection.
    • Creates a statewide data system for egregious misconduct in noncertificated staff and private schools.
    • Requires annual mandated reporter training for all staff and volunteers.

    Get Involved

    Act Now!

    Email the authors or create an email template to send to all relevant legislators.

    Introduced By

    Sasha Renee Perez
    Sasha Renee PerezD
    California State Senator
    Co-Authors
    Al Muratsuchi
    Al MuratsuchiD
    California State Assembly Member
    Dawn Addis
    Dawn AddisD
    California State Assembly Member
    Josh Lowenthal
    Josh LowenthalD
    California State Assembly Member
    Juan Alanis
    Juan AlanisR
    California State Assembly Member
    Tom Lackey
    Tom LackeyR
    California State Assembly Member
    Josh Hoover
    Josh HooverR
    California State Assembly Member

    Summary

    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.

    70% progression
    Bill has passed both houses in identical form and is being prepared for the Governor (9/13/2025)

    Key Dates

    Vote on Senate Floor
    Senate Floor
    Vote on Senate Floor
    Unfinished Business SB848 Pérez et al. Concurrence
    Vote on Senate Floor
    Senate Floor
    Vote on Senate Floor
    Unfinished Business SB848 Pérez et al. Concurrence
    Vote on Assembly Floor
    Assembly Floor
    Vote on Assembly Floor
    SB 848 Pérez Senate Third Reading By Wicks
    Assembly Appropriations Hearing
    Assembly Committee
    Assembly Appropriations Hearing
    Do pass as amended
    Assembly Public Safety Hearing
    Assembly Committee
    Assembly Public Safety Hearing
    Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
    Assembly Education Hearing
    Assembly Committee
    Assembly Education Hearing
    Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety]
    Vote on Senate Floor
    Senate Floor
    Vote on Senate Floor
    Senate 3rd Reading SB848 Pérez
    Senate Appropriations Hearing
    Senate Committee
    Senate Appropriations Hearing
    Do pass as amended
    Senate Appropriations Hearing
    Senate Committee
    Senate Appropriations Hearing
    Placed on suspense file
    Senate Public Safety Hearing
    Senate Committee
    Senate Public Safety Hearing
    Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]
    Senate Education Hearing
    Senate Committee
    Senate Education Hearing
    Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety]
    Introduced
    Senate Floor
    Introduced
    Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

    Latest Voting History

    View History
    September 13, 2025
    PASS
    Senate Floor
    Vote on Senate Floor
    AyesNoesNVRTotalResult
    370340PASS

    Contacts

    Profile
    Al MuratsuchiD
    Assemblymember
    Bill Author
    Not Contacted
    Not Contacted
    Profile
    Tom LackeyR
    Assemblymember
    Bill Author
    Not Contacted
    Not Contacted
    Profile
    Dawn AddisD
    Assemblymember
    Bill Author
    Not Contacted
    Not Contacted
    Profile
    Juan AlanisR
    Assemblymember
    Bill Author
    Not Contacted
    Not Contacted
    Profile
    Josh HooverR
    Assemblymember
    Bill Author
    Not Contacted
    Not Contacted
    0 of 7 row(s) selected.
    Page 1 of 2
    Select All Legislators
    Profile
    Al MuratsuchiD
    Assemblymember
    Bill Author
    Profile
    Tom LackeyR
    Assemblymember
    Bill Author
    Profile
    Dawn AddisD
    Assemblymember
    Bill Author
    Profile
    Juan AlanisR
    Assemblymember
    Bill Author
    Profile
    Josh HooverR
    Assemblymember
    Bill Author
    Profile
    Josh LowenthalD
    Assemblymember
    Bill Author
    Profile
    Sasha Renee PerezD
    Senator
    Bill Author