republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/ab-2291.md

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Bill	School safety: bullying.	Existing law, the Safe Place to Learn Act, requires the State Department of Education to assess whether local educational agencies have taken certain actions related to educational equity, including adopting a policy that prohibits discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying based on specified characteristics such as disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation, or association with a person or group with one or more of the specified characteristics.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	AB 2291	California AB 2291 (20172018)	bill	School safety: bullying.	enacted	Chiu	6	22	8	2018-02-13	2018-09-18	openstates	ocd-bill/fa7ca9e3-1702-4d88-8b46-2c83325c39cc	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB2291	00a2efb499217a8c727a34e13c55fe2b775017be6b3c2fbc13b34bcefb43944d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2291 (20172018) — School safety: bullying.

Existing law, the Safe Place to Learn Act, requires the State Department of Education to assess whether local educational agencies have taken certain actions related to educational equity, including adopting a policy that prohibits discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying based on specified characteristics such as disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, or sexual orientation, or association with a person or group with one or more of the specified characteristics.

Version chain

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

1. 02/13/18 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/23/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/13/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/18/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2291 (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/29/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB2291 Chiu By Pan — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 2291 CHIU Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2291 CHIU Consent Calendar Second Day — 73–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Chiu — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2018-02-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2018-02-14 From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
• 2018-03-01 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2018-04-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-04-23 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-04-24 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2018-05-02 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 2). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-05-03 Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-05-10 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 5131.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-05-10 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2018-05-24 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2018-06-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 6). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2018-06-13 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1
• 2018-07-02 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2018-08-17 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 5651.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-23 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2018-08-27 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6649.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2018-09-18 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-18 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 491, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fa7ca9e3-1702-4d88-8b46-2c83325c39cc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).