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type: "Bill"
title: "Pupil and student health: identification cards: suicide prevention hotline telephone numbers."
description: "Existing law, the California Suicide Prevention Act of 2000, authorizes the State Department of Health Care Services to establish and implement a suicide prevention, education, and gatekeeper program to reduce the severity, duration, and incidence of suicidal behaviors. The act authorizes the State Department of Health Care Services to contract with an outside agency to establish and implement a targeted public awareness and education campaign on suicide prevention and treatment, and requires that the target population include junior high and high school students."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "SB 972"
citation: "California SB 972 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Pupil and student health: identification cards: suicide prevention hotline telephone numbers."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Portantino"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 25
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2018-02-01"
last_action: "2018-09-17"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/62bbf643-f86d-45c7-9818-9da15f9ab3a9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB972"
source_hash: "8b0bc4a77a813c5bfb3c8c11d2df790bd9856ce22e60400985408af13e2278b9"
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 972 (20172018) — Pupil and student health: identification cards: suicide prevention hotline telephone numbers.
Existing law, the California Suicide Prevention Act of 2000, authorizes the State Department of Health Care Services to establish and implement a suicide prevention, education, and gatekeeper program to reduce the severity, duration, and incidence of suicidal behaviors. The act authorizes the State Department of Health Care Services to contract with an outside agency to establish and implement a targeted public awareness and education campaign on suicide prevention and treatment, and requires that the target population include junior high and high school students.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/01/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB972&version=20170SB97299INT)
2. **03/05/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB972&version=20170SB97298AMD)
3. **04/12/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB972&version=20170SB97297AMD)
4. **05/15/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB972&version=20170SB97296AMD)
5. **06/20/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB972&version=20170SB97295AMD)
6. **07/05/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB972&version=20170SB97294AMD)
7. **09/17/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB972&version=20170SB97292CHP)
8. **SB972** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB972)
9. **08/21/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB972&version=20170SB97293ENR)
## Votes
- 3rd Reading SB972 Portantino et al. — **360** (pass) · upper
- Do pass — **60** (pass) · upper
- SB 972 Portantino Consent Calendar Second Day — **760** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **60** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **170** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB972 Portantino et al. Concurrence — **370** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Portantino — primary (person)
- Atkins — coauthor (person)
- Beall — coauthor (person)
- Harper — principal coauthor (person)
- Jones-Sawyer — coauthor (person)
- Lara — coauthor (person)
- Leyva — coauthor (person)
- Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
- Wiener — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-02-01** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2018-02-02** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 4.
- **2018-02-14** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-27** Set for hearing March 14.
- **2018-03-05** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2018-03-14** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 4375.) (March 14). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-03-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-04-12** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2018-04-12** Ordered to second reading.
- **2018-04-16** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-04-26** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 4837.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-04-26** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2018-05-03** Referred to Coms. on ED. and APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2018-05-15** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2018-06-19** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 13). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2018-06-20** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2018-07-05** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-08** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2018-08-09** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2018-08-16** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6310.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2018-08-16** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2018-08-20** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 5423.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2018-08-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2018-09-17** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2018-09-17** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 460, Statutes of 2018.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/62bbf643-f86d-45c7-9818-9da15f9ab3a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).