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Bill	Pupil discipline and safety: cyber sexual bullying.	(1) Existing law prohibits the suspension of a pupil from school or the recommendation of a pupil for expulsion from school unless the school district superintendent or the principal of the school in which the pupil is enrolled determines that the pupil has committed any of several specified acts, including, but not limited to, engaging in acts of bullying by means of an electronic act.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2536	California AB 2536 (20152016)	bill	Pupil discipline and safety: cyber sexual bullying.	enacted	Chau	9	29	6	2016-02-19	2016-09-21	openstates	ocd-bill/e46a0030-b480-45b9-87be-88eb96998d64	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2536	0c11629ec277d9c01db5e194c72606f273ad49362ce6848e4be493797ace837d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2536 (20152016) — Pupil discipline and safety: cyber sexual bullying.

(1) Existing law prohibits the suspension of a pupil from school or the recommendation of a pupil for expulsion from school unless the school district superintendent or the principal of the school in which the pupil is enrolled determines that the pupil has committed any of several specified acts, including, but not limited to, engaging in acts of bullying by means of an electronic act.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/13/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/26/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/31/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/01/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/10/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/21/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB2536 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/25/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 19–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2536 CHAU Assembly Third Reading — 75–4 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 2536 CHAU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–2 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2536 Chau By Beall — 35–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Chau — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-19 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2016-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2016-02-22 Read first time. reading-1
• 2016-03-08 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2016-04-13 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-04-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-14 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2016-04-25 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (April 20). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-04-26 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-27 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-05-04 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-05-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 19. Noes 1.) (May 27). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-05-31 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 4. Page 5197.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-06 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2016-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-01 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2016-08-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-10 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-11 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 1. Page 5158.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-24 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 2. Page 6211.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m.
• 2016-09-21 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-21 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 419, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e46a0030-b480-45b9-87be-88eb96998d64. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).