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CaliforniaSB 982025-2026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET
Elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education: immigration enforcement: notification.
Sponsored By: Sasha Renée Pérez (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
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17 provisions identified: 14 benefits, 1 costs, 2 mixed.
Fair charter admissions and discipline rights
Charter schools must be nonreligious and open to all. If more students apply than seats, they use a public random lottery, and any preference must follow state and federal law. For suspensions under 10 days, the school must give notice and let the student tell their side. For 10 days or more, or expulsions, the school must give written notice and a hearing with a neutral officer. No student can be removed unless the parent or guardian gets written notice at least five schooldays ahead. Foster youth and Indian children get special notice and rights.
Keep school learning during emergencies
Beginning July 1, 2025, districts, county offices, and charters must have a plan to keep teaching after an emergency. The plan contacts students and families within five days. It must provide in‑person or remote instruction within 10 instructional days. By March 1, 2025, the state posts guidance to help schools build these plans.
Colleges limit immigration information sharing
Beginning January 1, 2031, CSU, community colleges, and certain private colleges must, as allowed by law, limit sharing students’, faculty’s, and staff’s personal information with immigration officers. They must post policies, name campus contacts, list immigration legal services, and advise the campus on how to respond to immigration officers. They must also send required notices to emergency contacts or the campus community in set situations. The UC Regents are asked, but not required, to do the same.
State pays for some new mandates
If the State Mandates Commission finds this law creates state‑mandated costs, the state reimburses local agencies and school districts under existing rules. Reimbursement follows current claim and payment procedures.
Charter expansion, relocation, and special sites
To add sites or grades, a charter must get a material revision approved at a public meeting. A single site opened before January 1, 2020 outside its authorizing district but in‑county may keep operating until renewal with local approval or a renewal request. After a presidential disaster declaration, a charter may relocate a site outside the area for up to five years with written approval, and schools displaced between Dec. 31, 2016 and Dec. 31, 2019 may return to their original campus at any time. Tribal‑affiliated charters operating before Oct. 1, 2019 on reservations have more geographic flexibility. Since Jan. 1, 2003, a charter cannot be approved to serve a grade the district does not serve unless it serves all district grades.
Annual charter safety plans and checks
Charter schools must keep clear health and safety procedures, and employees must provide a criminal record summary. Each school safety plan is reviewed and updated by March 1 every year. Through January 1, 2031, plans include the listed safety topics in law; a revised list applies starting January 1, 2031. Section 32282 becomes operative January 1, 2031, aligning topics and timing.
Ban high-intensity shooter drills
Schools may not run high-intensity shooter drills that use theatrical blood, actors as attackers or victims, or tell students to fight back. They also may not use real weapons, blanks, or explosions. Any allowed drills must be trauma‑informed, notify parents, offer a parent opt‑out, be announced before and after, and provide contacts for community support.
Faster charter petition hearings and appeals
School boards must hold a public hearing within 60 days after a charter petition is filed. They must decide within 90 days, or within 120 days if both sides agree. Staff recommendations post at least 15 days before the hearing. If denied, petitioners can appeal to the county board within 30 days. If denied again, they can appeal to the state board within 30 days under set procedures.
Keep enrollment during emergency reassignments
Beginning July 1, 2025, a student moved under an instructional continuity plan after an emergency is treated as meeting residency rules. “Temporarily reassigned” means sent to another local agency outside the district but in the same county, or an adjacent county where the parent or guardian lives. Districts, charters, and county offices can keep these students enrolled to help them return quickly after the emergency.
No converting public schools to charters
Districts and petitioners cannot use the countywide charter process to turn an existing public school into a charter school. This keeps current public schools as they are and protects families’ school placements.
Protections and transparency for charter families
Charter schools must follow the same statewide academic standards and tests as other public schools. Schools cannot discourage enrollment or ask for records before enrollment; the state provides a notice of these rights and a complaint path. Each charter must send its annual independent audit by December 15 to listed officials. Districts cannot force employees to work at a charter or force students to attend one.
Stronger school emergency health plans
Beginning July 1, 2025, when a school next updates its safety plan, it must add steps to respond to sudden cardiac arrest. Any school that serves grades 7–12 must include a protocol for suspected opioid overdoses. The law encourages CPR training, AED placement, and following national guidance. The Department of Education must keep an up-to-date safety plan checklist on its website to guide schools.
Safety plans for students with disabilities
School safety plans must include disaster steps that work for students with disabilities and follow ADA, IDEA, and Section 504. Reviews must confirm these adaptations. After each review, staff, parents, or students can raise access concerns with the principal. If concerns have merit, the school orders changes and keeps student information private.
School notices for immigration enforcement
At the next safety plan update, and no later than March 1, 2026, schools add procedures to notify parents, teachers, and staff when immigration enforcement is confirmed on campus. Notices must protect safety and avoid sharing any personal student information. Schools may include links to help and resources.
Stronger school safety and disaster plans
Schools must assess campus crime and include child abuse reporting steps in safety plans. Buildings with 50 or more pupils or more than one classroom must have earthquake procedures and hold regular “drop” drills. Districts must let public agencies use school sites as shelters during disasters. Starting July 1, 2026, schools in high or very high fire zones that serve more than 50 students must identify refuge shelters and create early‑evacuation communication plans.
Higher bar to file charter petitions
New charter petitions must meet signature minimums. Parents must sign equal to at least half of expected first‑year students, or teachers equal to at least half of expected first‑year teachers. A conversion petition cannot circulate unless at least 50% of the school’s permanent‑status teachers sign. Petitions must include a clear statement explaining what a signature means and attach the full proposed charter.
Rules for countywide charter approvals
County boards can approve a charter that runs at more than one site when it offers services the county office does not provide and serves students better than a single‑district charter. To file, parents must sign at least half of estimated first‑year students or teachers at least half of estimated first‑year teachers, and each district must get 30 days’ notice. New countywide sites need district notice and a county board vote at a public meeting held at least 30 days after notice. County boards may set extra standards and must deny weak or incomplete petitions.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Sasha Renée Pérez
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
Dawn Addis
Democratic • House
Jesse ArreguÃn
Democratic • Senate
Anna Caballero
Democratic • Senate
Lisa Calderon
Democratic • House
Robert Garcia
Democratic • House
Mark Mark González
Democratic • House
Mark Mark González
Democratic • House
Liz Ortega
Democratic • House
Stephen Padilla
Democratic • Senate
LaShae Sharp-Collins
Democratic • House
José Luis Solache
Democratic • House
Roll Call Votes
House vote • 9/2/2025
Item 283 — Assembly AFLOOR
Yes: 59 • No: 10
Senate vote • 9/2/2025
Item 572 — Senate SFLOOR
Yes: 31 • No: 8
legislature vote • 8/20/2025
Vote in CX25
Yes: 11 • No: 3
legislature vote • 7/8/2025
Vote in CX09
Yes: 7 • No: 2
legislature vote • 7/2/2025
Vote in CX03
Yes: 7 • No: 2
Senate vote • 6/2/2025
Item 81 — Senate SFLOOR
Yes: 29 • No: 8
legislature vote • 5/23/2025
Vote in CS61
Yes: 5 • No: 1
legislature vote • 4/28/2025
Vote in CS61
Yes: 7 • No: 0
legislature vote • 4/8/2025
Vote in CS53
Yes: 11 • No: 1
legislature vote • 3/19/2025
Vote in CS44
Yes: 6 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 124, Statutes of 2025.
9/20/2025SenateApproved by the Governor.
9/20/2025legislatureEnrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
9/9/2025legislatureAssembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 8. Page 2404.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
9/2/2025SenateIn Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
9/2/2025SenateRead third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 59. Noes 10. Page 2811.) Ordered to the Senate.
9/2/2025HouseRead third time and amended.
8/28/2025HouseOrdered to third reading.
8/28/2025HouseRead second time. Ordered to third reading.
8/25/2025HouseRead second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
8/21/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (August 20).
8/20/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
7/9/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.
7/3/2025HouseCoauthors revised.
7/3/2025HouseFrom committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED.
6/23/2025HouseReferred to Coms. on ED. and HIGHER ED.
6/9/2025HouseIn Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
6/3/2025HouseRead third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 1378.) Ordered to the Assembly.
6/2/2025SenateRead second time. Ordered to third reading.
5/23/2025SenateFrom committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1191.) (May 23).
5/23/2025SenateSet for hearing May 23.
5/16/2025SenateApril 28 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
4/28/2025SenateSet for hearing April 28.
4/17/2025SenateSet for hearing April 21.
4/10/2025SenateApril 21 hearing postponed by committee.
4/10/2025Senate
Bill Text
Chaptered
9/20/2025
Enrolled
9/4/2025
Amended Assembly
8/28/2025
Amended Assembly
8/21/2025
Amended Assembly
6/23/2025
Amended Senate
4/2/2025
Amended Senate
3/24/2025
Amended Senate
3/11/2025
Introduced
1/23/2025