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Bill	School safety and fire prevention: fire hazard severity zones: comprehensive school safety plans: communication and evacuation plans.	Existing law provides that school districts and county offices of education are responsible for the overall development of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of their schools, as provided. Existing law requires a schoolsite council to write and develop a comprehensive school safety plan relevant to the needs and resources of that particular school, in consultation with a representative from a law enforcement agency, a fire department, and other first responder entities, as specified, while providing an alternate mechanism for compliance with this requirement for small school districts, as defined. Existing law requires the comprehensive school safety plan to include appropriate strategies and programs relating to school safety and school safety law compliance, including the development of specified disaster procedures. Existing law authorizes a chartering authority to deny a petition for the establishment of a charter school for specified reasons, including the absence in the charter petition of a reasonably comprehensive description of the development of a school safety plan that includes these same topics.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 2968	California AB 2968 (20232024)	bill	School safety and fire prevention communication and evacuation plans comprehensive school safety plans fire hazard severity zones	enacted	Connolly	12	36	10	2024-02-16	2024-09-25	openstates	ocd-bill/1ac42c30-c6f7-48a6-9650-ec7848ef8736	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2968	378cd37efb0b37ab45eea7f9f3f6f643b15c9c42611f6bfae56031c8563d8f30	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2968 (20232024) — School safety and fire prevention: fire hazard severity zones: comprehensive school safety plans: communication and evacuation plans.

Existing law provides that school districts and county offices of education are responsible for the overall development of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of their schools, as provided. Existing law requires a schoolsite council to write and develop a comprehensive school safety plan relevant to the needs and resources of that particular school, in consultation with a representative from a law enforcement agency, a fire department, and other first responder entities, as specified, while providing an alternate mechanism for compliance with this requirement for small school districts, as defined. Existing law requires the comprehensive school safety plan to include appropriate strategies and programs relating to school safety and school safety law compliance, including the development of specified disaster procedures. Existing law authorizes a chartering authority to deny a petition for the establishment of a charter school for specified reasons, including the absence in the charter petition of a reasonably comprehensive description of the development of a school safety plan that includes these same topics.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/01/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/15/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 04/24/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/10/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 06/27/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/15/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/23/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/25/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
11. AB2968 (committee substitute) — source
12. 08/31/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 2968 Connolly Assembly Third Reading — 71–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources and Water] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Natural Resources] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2968 Connolly Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 15–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2968 Connolly By Dodd — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Connolly — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2024-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2024-03-21 Referred to Coms. on ED. and NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2024-03-21 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-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2024-04-01 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-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-02 Re-referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2024-04-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on NAT. RES. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 10). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-15 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-16 Re-referred to Com. on NAT. RES. referral-committee
• 2024-04-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (April 22). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-04-24 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2024-05-08 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-22 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 5520.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-06-05 Referred to Coms. on ED. and N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2024-06-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-06-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on N.R. & W. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 19). Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-06-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 25). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2024-06-27 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-08-05 In committee: Referred to APPR suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 15). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2024-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-23 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0.). passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2024-08-28 Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
• 2024-08-28 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-25 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-25 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 582, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1ac42c30-c6f7-48a6-9650-ec7848ef8736. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).