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Bill	School safety: lockdown drills and multioption response drills: report.	Existing law requires school districts and county offices of education to be responsible for the overall development of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of its schools operating a kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Existing law requires, except as provided for a small school district, the schoolsite council of a school to write and develop the comprehensive school safety plan relevant to the needs and resources of that particular school. Existing law requires the comprehensive school safety plan to include certain things, including the development of certain school safety policies and procedures, including procedures for conducting tactical responses to criminal incidents.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	SB 541	California SB 541 (20192020)	bill	School safety: lockdown drills and multioption response drills: report.	enacted	Bates	9	30	8	2019-02-22	2019-10-12	openstates	ocd-bill/7eb4c7f3-03d0-4534-b8a1-e62a9309ced4	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB541	2d9a27ed54d7d3d23e298b57ef40335b3f2cac53816a9c9a59208967f19025d7	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 541 (20192020) — School safety: lockdown drills and multioption response drills: report.

Existing law requires school districts and county offices of education to be responsible for the overall development of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of its schools operating a kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Existing law requires, except as provided for a small school district, the schoolsite council of a school to write and develop the comprehensive school safety plan relevant to the needs and resources of that particular school. Existing law requires the comprehensive school safety plan to include certain things, including the development of certain school safety policies and procedures, including procedures for conducting tactical responses to criminal incidents.

Version chain

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

1. 02/22/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/10/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/23/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/17/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/10/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/03/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 10/12/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB541 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/13/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 541 Bates Senate Third Reading By Gonzalez — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 18–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB541 Bates et al. — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB541 Bates et al. Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Bates — primary (person)
• Portantino — author (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-02-22 Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction
• 2019-02-25 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 27.
• 2019-02-25 Read first time. reading-1
• 2019-03-07 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2019-03-08 Set for hearing April 3.
• 2019-04-09 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 548.) (April 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-04-10 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-18 Set for hearing April 29.
• 2019-04-23 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-04-29 April 29 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-05-10 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2019-05-17 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1102.) (May 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-05-17 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1253.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-24 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2019-06-06 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2019-06-10 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-06-20 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-14 August 14 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2019-08-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (August 30). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2019-09-03 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-10 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 3339.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-10 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2019-09-11 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2019-09-11 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2868.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2019-10-12 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-12 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 786, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/7eb4c7f3-03d0-4534-b8a1-e62a9309ced4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).