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type: "Bill"
title: "Pupil health: oral health assessment."
description: "Existing law requires a pupil, while enrolled in kindergarten in a public school, or while enrolled in first grade in a public school if the pupil was not previously enrolled in kindergarten in a public school, to present proof of having received an oral health assessment by a licensed dentist or other licensed or registered dental health professional operating within his or her scope of practice that was performed no earlier than 12 months prior to the date of the initial enrollment of the pupil. Existing law specifies that a school district or county office of education is not precluded from developing a schoolsite-based oral health assessment to comply with that requirement. Existing law requires a public school, using a standardized notification form developed and posted online by the State Department of Education in consultation with interested persons, to notify parents and legal guardians of the assessment requirement. Existing law requires a school district to send a report by December 31 of each year containing information related to the assessments to the county office of education in the county in which the school district is located. Existing law requires the Office of Oral Health of the Chronic Disease Control Branch of the State Department of Public Health to conduct an evaluation of, and submit a report related to, these requirements by January 1, 2010."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "SB 379"
citation: "California SB 379 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Pupil health: oral health assessment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Atkins"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 30
vote_count: 9
first_action: "2017-02-14"
last_action: "2017-10-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1f300c1b-668b-4b0f-ae1b-0f6e116ec66b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB379"
source_hash: "da0f36a794e1fa58a290fe06828a671e0f7433418ef0f55783887b5fa4eedcee"
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 379 (20172018) — Pupil health: oral health assessment.
Existing law requires a pupil, while enrolled in kindergarten in a public school, or while enrolled in first grade in a public school if the pupil was not previously enrolled in kindergarten in a public school, to present proof of having received an oral health assessment by a licensed dentist or other licensed or registered dental health professional operating within his or her scope of practice that was performed no earlier than 12 months prior to the date of the initial enrollment of the pupil. Existing law specifies that a school district or county office of education is not precluded from developing a schoolsite-based oral health assessment to comply with that requirement. Existing law requires a public school, using a standardized notification form developed and posted online by the State Department of Education in consultation with interested persons, to notify parents and legal guardians of the assessment requirement. Existing law requires a school district to send a report by December 31 of each year containing information related to the assessments to the county office of education in the county in which the school district is located. Existing law requires the Office of Oral Health of the Chronic Disease Control Branch of the State Department of Public Health to conduct an evaluation of, and submit a report related to, these requirements by January 1, 2010.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/14/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB379&version=20170SB37999INT)
2. **04/06/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB379&version=20170SB37998AMD)
3. **10/13/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB379&version=20170SB37996CHP)
4. **SB379** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB379)
5. **09/14/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB379&version=20170SB37997ENR)
## Votes
- SB 379 Atkins Senate Third Reading By WOOD — **790** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **90** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **70** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent Calendar # SB379 — **400** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **160** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **150** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — **60** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Health] — **70** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Atkins — primary (person)
- Aguiar-Curry — coauthor (person)
- Wood — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-02-14** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2017-02-15** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
- **2017-02-23** Referred to Coms. on ED. and HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-07** Set for hearing March 22.
- **2017-03-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 444.) (March 22). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-03-29** Set for hearing April 5.
- **2017-03-29** April 5 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2017-03-30** Set for hearing April 19.
- **2017-04-06** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2017-04-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 807.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-04-25** Set for hearing May 1.
- **2017-05-01** May 1 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2017-05-19** Set for hearing May 25.
- **2017-05-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1183.) (May 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-05-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-05-26** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2017-05-31** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 1356.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-06-01** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2017-06-12** Referred to Coms. on ED. and HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-07-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-07-19** July 19 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2017-09-01** Coauthors revised.
- **2017-09-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 16. Noes 0.) (September 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-09-12** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3218.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-09-13** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2017-09-18** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2017-10-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-10-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 772, Statutes of 2017.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1f300c1b-668b-4b0f-ae1b-0f6e116ec66b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).