---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pupil discipline: restraint and seclusion."
description: "Existing law prohibits a person employed by or engaged in a public school to inflict, or cause to be inflicted, corporal punishment upon a pupil."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "AB 2657"
citation: "California AB 2657 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Pupil discipline: restraint and seclusion."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Weber"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 28
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2018-02-15"
last_action: "2018-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/68276cac-4521-47a9-bd33-bbd1c9b83d5c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2657"
source_hash: "e02f394e62983dec0182a4e99be6480c87f21006202408dc00c600bbb39c342c"
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 2657 (20172018) — Pupil discipline: restraint and seclusion.

Existing law prohibits a person employed by or engaged in a public school to inflict, or cause to be inflicted, corporal punishment upon a pupil.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/15/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2657&version=20170AB265799INT)
2. **05/02/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2657&version=20170AB265798AMD)
3. **06/18/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2657&version=20170AB265797AMD)
4. **07/05/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2657&version=20170AB265796AMD)
5. **08/17/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2657&version=20170AB265795AMD)
6. **08/24/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2657&version=20170AB265794AMD)
7. **09/30/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2657&version=20170AB265792CHP)
8. **AB2657** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2657)
9. **09/04/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2657&version=20170AB265793ENR)

## Votes

- AB 2657 WEBER Assembly Third Reading — **54–13** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–1** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2657 Weber By Wilk — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2657 WEBER Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **12–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **4–1** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Weber — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2018-02-15** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-02-16** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
- **2018-03-08** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (April 25). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-05-02** Read second time and amended. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-05-03** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-16** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 2.) (May 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-05-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-05-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 13. Page 5595.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-06-04** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2018-06-13** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2018-06-14** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2018-06-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-07-03** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 27). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-07-05** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2018-08-06** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2018-08-17** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 16). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2018-08-17** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2018-08-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-24** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2018-08-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5985.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2018-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 2. Page 7020.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2018-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 998, Statutes of 2018.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/68276cac-4521-47a9-bd33-bbd1c9b83d5c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).