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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Pupil safety: comprehensive school safety plans: use of smartphones."
+description: "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."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20252026"
+identifier: "AB 962"
+citation: "California AB 962 (20252026)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Pupilsafety", "comprehensiveschoolsafetyplans", "useofsmartphones"]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Hoover"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 19
+vote_count: 5
+first_action: "2025-02-20"
+last_action: "2025-10-03"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/62d71855-6f59-4599-a088-da4654c35145"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB962"
+source_hash: "e5e57cdcb4bca04830e7a97d33f9ecf717f374bb86802a805953ecefa2682f1b"
+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 962 (20252026) — Pupil safety: comprehensive school safety plans: use of smartphones.
+
+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.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/20/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB962&version=20250AB96299INT)
+2. **06/13/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB962&version=20250AB96298AMD)
+3. **09/04/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB962&version=20250AB96297AMD)
+4. **10/03/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB962&version=20250AB96295CHP)
+5. **AB962** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB962)
+6. **09/16/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB962&version=20250AB96296ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- AB 962 Hoover Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **74–0** (pass) · lower
+- AB 962 Hoover Consent Calendar Second Day — **75–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **9–0** (pass) · lower
+- 3rd Reading AB962 Hoover By Allen — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended — **6–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Hoover — primary (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2025-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2025-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
+- **2025-03-10** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-04-10** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 9). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-04-21** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-04-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1280.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-04-24** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2025-05-07** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
+- **2025-06-12** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 11). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
+- **2025-06-13** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-09-04** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-09-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
+- **2025-09-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 2962.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
+- **2025-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
+- **2025-09-13** Joint Rules 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3413.)
+- **2025-09-13** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 3504.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
+- **2025-09-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
+- **2025-10-03** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2025-10-03** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 284, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/62d71855-6f59-4599-a088-da4654c35145`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
+