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Bill	Pupils: use of smartphones.	Existing law authorizes the governing body of a school district, a county office of education, or a charter school to adopt a policy to limit or prohibit the use by its pupils of smartphones while the pupils are at a schoolsite or while the pupils are under the supervision and control of an employee or employees of that school district, county office of education, or charter school. Existing law, however, specifies circumstances in which a pupil may not be prohibited from possessing or using a smartphone.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	AB 3216	California AB 3216 (20232024)	bill	Pupils use of smartphones	enacted	Hoover	8	28	8	2024-02-16	2024-09-23	openstates	ocd-bill/a6b640e1-7a3f-4b2c-a7f8-6fa001276d70	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3216	92b27ef9c68e61d75c980307d7f5ad1f0ee1ad229e50d751869234202f4a8f4f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 3216 (20232024) — Pupils: use of smartphones.

Existing law authorizes the governing body of a school district, a county office of education, or a charter school to adopt a policy to limit or prohibit the use by its pupils of smartphones while the pupils are at a schoolsite or while the pupils are under the supervision and control of an employee or employees of that school district, county office of education, or charter school. Existing law, however, specifies circumstances in which a pupil may not be prohibited from possessing or using a smartphone.

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. 05/16/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/15/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/23/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/23/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB3216 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/31/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB3216 Hoover et al. By Allen — 38–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 3216 Hoover Assembly Third Reading — 69–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 3216 Hoover Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 76–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Hoover — primary (person)
• Allen — coauthor (person)
• Alvarez — author (person)
• Chen — coauthor (person)
• Lowenthal — author (person)
• Mathis — coauthor (person)
• Muratsuchi — author (person)
• Niello — coauthor (person)
• Stern — coauthor (person)
• Wilk — coauthor (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 Com. on ED. 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
• 2024-04-04 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-17 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2024-05-16 Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
• 2024-05-16 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 16). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
• 2024-05-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 5613.) passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-05-24 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2024-06-05 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
• 2024-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-08-05 In committee: Referred to 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 38. Noes 1.). 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 76. Noes 0.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-23 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-23 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 500, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a6b640e1-7a3f-4b2c-a7f8-6fa001276d70. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).