Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district or its designee to regulate the possession or use of any electronic signaling device that operates through the transmission or receipt of radio waves, including, but not limited to, paging and signaling equipment, by pupils of the school district while the pupils are on campus, attending school-sponsored activities, or under the supervision or control of school district employees. Existing law explicitly 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.
California SB 1283 (20232024) — Pupils: use of social media.
Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district or its designee to regulate the possession or use of any electronic signaling device that operates through the transmission or receipt of radio waves, including, but not limited to, paging and signaling equipment, by pupils of the school district while the pupils are on campus, attending school-sponsored activities, or under the supervision or control of school district employees. Existing law explicitly 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.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Unfinished Business SB1283 Stern et al. Concurrence — 40–0 (pass) · upper
3rd Reading — 35–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Privacy and Consumer Protection] — 6–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended — 6–0 (pass) · upper
SB 1283 Stern Senate Third Reading By Bauer-Kahan — 72–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Stern — primary (person)
Bauer-Kahan — principal coauthor (person)
Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
Rubio — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2024-02-15 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2024-02-16 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
2024-02-29 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
2024-03-01 Set for hearing March 20.
2024-03-07 March 20 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
2024-03-14 Set for hearing April 10.
2024-04-10 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 3559.) (April 10). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-04-11 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2024-05-20 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-05-20 Ordered to second reading.
2024-05-21 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2024-05-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 4193.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-05-24 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2024-06-03 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
2024-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2024-06-26 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2024-07-03 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-08-05 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2024-08-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2024-08-12 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-08-12 Ordered to third reading.
2024-08-30 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 6968.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-08-30 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2024-08-31 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5792.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-09-11 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2024-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2024-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 891, Statutes of 2024. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8e3a9267-3448-4b29-bf0c-55266a15a64d. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).