republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-2879.md

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Bill	Online content: cyberbullying.	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. Existing law requires local educational agencies, as defined, to adopt procedures for preventing acts of bullying, including cyberbullying. Existing law also prohibits a pupil from being suspended from school or recommended for expulsion, unless the superintendent of the school district or the principal of the school in which the pupil is enrolled determines that the pupil has committed a specified act, including, among other acts, engaging in an act of bullying, which includes communications made in writing or by means of an electronic act, as defined.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20212022	AB 2879	California AB 2879 (20212022)	bill	Online content: cyberbullying.	enacted	Low	11	29	8	2022-02-18	2022-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/063f6b4b-771e-4527-956f-bb652b362933	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2879	e0bf22a6f706596f16324cab85a686b9a4cec0ed47036c626ada2741271bf90f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2879 (20212022) — Online content: cyberbullying.

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. Existing law requires local educational agencies, as defined, to adopt procedures for preventing acts of bullying, including cyberbullying. Existing law also prohibits a pupil from being suspended from school or recommended for expulsion, unless the superintendent of the school district or the principal of the school in which the pupil is enrolled determines that the pupil has committed a specified act, including, among other acts, engaging in an act of bullying, which includes communications made in writing or by means of an electronic act, as defined.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/22 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/07/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/21/22 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/09/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/21/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/30/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/11/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/24/22 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/28/22 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB2879 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/01/22 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass. — 8–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2879 Low Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 67–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2879 Low Assembly Third Reading — 55–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2879 Low et al. By Wiener — 38–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Low — primary (person)
• Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-18 Introduced. To print. introduction
• 2022-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
• 2022-03-17 Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-04-07 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-04-18 Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. referral-committee
• 2022-04-20 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 19). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-04-21 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-04-26 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 26). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-04-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-05-05 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 55. Noes 0. Page 4570.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-05-05 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2022-05-18 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2022-06-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-21 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-06-29 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 28). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2022-06-30 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2022-08-02 In committee: Referred to suspense file. referral-committee
• 2022-08-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 11). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2022-08-11 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-24 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2022-08-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5198.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2022-08-29 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2022-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 1.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2022-09-02 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2022-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2022-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 700, Statutes of 2022. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/063f6b4b-771e-4527-956f-bb652b362933. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).