---
type: "Bill"
title: "Elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education: immigration enforcement: notification."
description: "(1) Under existing law, each school district and county office of education is responsible for the overall development, as specified, of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of its schools operating kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive. 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: "SB 98"
citation: "California SB 98 (20252026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Elementary", "secondary", "andpostsecondaryeducation", "immigrationenforcement", "notification"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Pérez"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 35
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2025-01-23"
last_action: "2025-09-20"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2b3e4cc0-a89c-40da-af98-edd5affbbb83"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB98"
source_hash: "755b289574482b3d0c713537ab0f8c1cf3505f806c803e28f4ed6d651472419c"
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 SB 98 (20252026) — Elementary, secondary, and postsecondary education: immigration enforcement: notification.

(1) Under existing law, each school district and county office of education is responsible for the overall development, as specified, of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of its schools operating kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive. 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. **01/23/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB98&version=20250SB9899INT)
2. **03/11/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB98&version=20250SB9898AMD)
3. **03/24/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB98&version=20250SB9897AMD)
4. **04/02/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB98&version=20250SB9896AMD)
5. **06/23/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB98&version=20250SB9895AMD)
6. **08/21/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB98&version=20250SB9894AMD)
7. **08/28/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB98&version=20250SB9893AMD)
8. **09/20/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB98&version=20250SB9891CHP)
9. **SB98** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB98)
10. **09/04/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB98&version=20250SB9892ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading SB98 Pérez et al. Urgency Clause — **29–8** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **11–3** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **5–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Higher Education] — **7–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **11–1** (pass) · upper
- SB 98 Pérez Third Reading Urgency By Muratsuchi — **59–10** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB98 Pérez et al. Urgency Clause Concurrence — **31–8** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Pérez — primary (person)
- Addis — coauthor (person)
- Arreguín — coauthor (person)
- Caballero — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
- Mark González — coauthor (person)
- Ortega — coauthor (person)
- Padilla — coauthor (person)
- Sharp-Collins — principal coauthor (person)
- Solache — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2025-01-23** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2025-01-24** From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 23.
- **2025-02-05** Referred to Coms. on ED. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-03** Set for hearing March 19.
- **2025-03-11** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-20** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 420.) (March 19). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-03-24** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-03-26** Set for hearing April 8.
- **2025-04-02** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1. Page 705.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-10** Set for hearing April 21.
- **2025-04-10** April 21 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2025-04-17** Set for hearing April 28.
- **2025-04-28** April 28 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2025-05-16** Set for hearing May 23.
- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1191.) (May 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-05-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-06-02** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 1378.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-06-03** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2025-06-09** Referred to Coms. on ED. and HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2025-06-23** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-03** Coauthors revised.
- **2025-07-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-07-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (July 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2025-08-20** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (August 20). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-08-21** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-08-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2025-08-28** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-08-28** Ordered to third reading.
- **2025-09-02** Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 59. Noes 10. Page 2811.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2025-09-02** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2025-09-02** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 31. Noes 8. Page 2404.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2025-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2025-09-20** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2025-09-20** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 124, 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/2b3e4cc0-a89c-40da-af98-edd5affbbb83`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).