Existing law requires the governing board or body of a local educational agency, defined as a county office of education, school district, state special school, or charter school, that serves pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to adopt a policy on pupil suicide prevention that specifically addresses, among other things, procedures relating to suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention, and any training on suicide awareness and prevention to be provided to teachers of pupils in all of the grades served by the local educational agency. Existing law requires the governing board or body of a local educational agency that serves pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to review, at minimum every 5th year, its policy on pupil suicide prevention and, if necessary, update its policy. To assist local educational agencies in developing policies for pupil suicide prevention, existing law requires the State Department of Education to develop and maintain a model policy to serve as a guide for local educational agencies, as provided.
Existing law requires the governing board or body of a local educational agency, defined as a county office of education, school district, state special school, or charter school, that serves pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to adopt a policy on pupil suicide prevention that specifically addresses, among other things, procedures relating to suicide prevention, intervention, and postvention, and any training on suicide awareness and prevention to be provided to teachers of pupils in all of the grades served by the local educational agency. Existing law requires the governing board or body of a local educational agency that serves pupils in kindergarten and grades 1 to 12, inclusive, to review, at minimum every 5th year, its policy on pupil suicide prevention and, if necessary, update its policy. To assist local educational agencies in developing policies for pupil suicide prevention, existing law requires the State Department of Education to develop and maintain a model policy to serve as a guide for local educational agencies, as provided.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
Unfinished Business SB1318 Wahab et al. Concurrence — 32–6 (pass) · upper
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–1 (pass) · lower
Placed on suspense file — 6–0 (pass) · upper
SB 1318 Wahab Senate Third Reading By Gipson — 63–10 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass. — 11–3 (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended — 5–2 (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Wahab — primary (person)
Cortese — coauthor (person)
Flora — coauthor (person)
Gipson — coauthor (person)
Holden — coauthor (person)
Jackson — coauthor (person)
Quirk-Silva — coauthor (person)
Wilson — coauthor (person)
Wood — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2024-02-16 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2024-02-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
2024-02-29 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
2024-03-19 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on ED. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2024-03-20 Set for hearing April 3.
2024-04-03 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 3466.) (April 3). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-04-04 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2024-04-09 Set for hearing April 15.
2024-04-15 April 15 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
2024-05-10 Set for hearing May 16.
2024-05-16 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3979.) (May 16). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-05-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
2024-05-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2024-05-21 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 7. Page 4094.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-05-22 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2024-05-28 Referred to Com. on ED. referral-committee
2024-06-13 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 12). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-06-17 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2024-08-07 August 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
2024-08-15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (August 15). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2024-08-26 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 63. Noes 10. Page 6534.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-08-26 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2024-08-28 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 32. Noes 6. Page 5531.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-09-04 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
2024-09-27 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2024-09-27 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 645, Statutes of 2024. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/096d6852-a4dd-433c-926f-9b9744bb6dc0. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).