Existing law, the Healthy Schools Act of 2000, requires that the preferred method of managing pests at schoolsites, as defined, is to use effective, least toxic pest management practices and requires schoolsites to maintain records of all pesticides used at the schoolsite for a period of 4 years. Existing law requires schools to provide all staff and parents or guardians of pupils enrolled at a school written notification of, among other things, expected pesticide use at that schoolsite. Existing law requires the Department of Pesticide Regulation to establish an integrated pest management training program in order to facilitate the adoption of a model integrated pest management program and least-hazardous pest control practices by schoolsites and requires certain persons who, in the course of their work, intend to apply a pesticide at a schoolsite to annually complete a training course provided by that department.
California AB 2816 (20172018) — Pesticides: schoolsites: report.
Existing law, the Healthy Schools Act of 2000, requires that the preferred method of managing pests at schoolsites, as defined, is to use effective, least toxic pest management practices and requires schoolsites to maintain records of all pesticides used at the schoolsite for a period of 4 years. Existing law requires schools to provide all staff and parents or guardians of pupils enrolled at a school written notification of, among other things, expected pesticide use at that schoolsite. Existing law requires the Department of Pesticide Regulation to establish an integrated pest management training program in order to facilitate the adoption of a model integrated pest management program and least-hazardous pest control practices by schoolsites and requires certain persons who, in the course of their work, intend to apply a pesticide at a schoolsite to annually complete a training course provided by that department.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
AB 2816 MURATSUCHI Assembly Third Reading — 62–8 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Environmental Safety and Toxic Materials] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass. — 13–2 (pass) · lower
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Education] — 6–1 (pass) · upper
3rd Reading AB2816 Muratsuchi et al. By Pan — 34–3 (pass) · upper
AB 2816 MURATSUCHI Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 65–9 (pass) · lower
Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended — 5–1 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Muratsuchi — primary (person)
Allen — coauthor (person)
Lara — coauthor (person)
Skinner — coauthor (person)
Stern — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2018-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2018-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
2018-03-22 Referred to Coms. on ED. and E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
2018-03-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
2018-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
2018-04-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on E.S. & T.M. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 11). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
2018-04-16 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
2018-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on E.S. & T.M. referral-committee
2018-04-25 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
2018-04-26 Read second time and amended. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
2018-04-30 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 13. 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 62. Noes 8. Page 5597.) 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 Coms. on EQ. and ED. referral-committee
2018-06-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on ED. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2018-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
2018-08-06 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
2018-08-17 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (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
2018-08-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 3. Page 5641.). 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 65. Noes 9. Page 6659.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
2018-09-05 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2018-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2018-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 720, Statutes of 2018.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/328739cc-a453-4a14-9530-d6a322e36c53. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).