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+type: "Bill"
+title: "School cybersecurity."
+description: "Existing law prohibits a school district from permitting access to pupil records to a person without written parental consent or under judicial order except as authorized by specified state and federal law."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20212022"
+identifier: "AB 2355"
+citation: "California AB 2355 (20212022)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["School cybersecurity."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Salas"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 27
+vote_count: 9
+first_action: "2022-02-16"
+last_action: "2022-09-23"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/8a359a28-866d-4584-8cd5-0f9692b5960c"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2355"
+source_hash: "cde89aa71703cf582975eb751f84ff889e3d8902bda923a7c5f4c878e016cd53"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 2355 (20212022) — School cybersecurity.
+
+Existing law prohibits a school district from permitting access to pupil records to a person without written parental consent or under judicial order except as authorized by specified state and federal law.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/16/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2355&version=20210AB235599INT)
+2. **04/07/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2355&version=20210AB235598AMD)
+3. **04/21/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2355&version=20210AB235597AMD)
+4. **09/23/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2355&version=20210AB235595CHP)
+5. **AB2355** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2355)
+6. **08/25/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2355&version=20210AB235596ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **16–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+- Special Consent AB2355 — **40–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **13–0** (pass) · upper
+- AB 2355 Salas Consent Calendar Second Day — **72–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governmental Organization] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Salas — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2022-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2022-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
+- **2022-03-03** Referred to Coms. on ED. and P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-04-06** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 6). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2022-04-07** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2022-04-18** Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-04-20** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 19). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2022-04-21** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2022-04-25** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-05-11** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (May 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-05-12** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2022-05-19** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 4739.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2022-05-19** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2022-06-01** Referred to Coms. on ED., G.O. and JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-02** Action rescinded whereby the bill was referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on G.O. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on G.O. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2022-06-29** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 13. Noes 0.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
+- **2022-08-01** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
+- **2022-08-08** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2022-08-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2022-08-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2022-08-22** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2022-08-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4980.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2022-08-23** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
+- **2022-08-30** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
+- **2022-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2022-09-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 498, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/8a359a28-866d-4584-8cd5-0f9692b5960c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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