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type: "Bill"
title: "Suspensions and expulsions: willful defiance: interventions and supports."
description: "(1) Existing law 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 an act from a list of specified acts, including, among other acts, disrupting school activities or otherwise willfully defying the valid authority of supervisors, teachers, administrators, school officials, or other school personnel engaged in the performance of their duties. Existing law authorizes a teacher to suspend any pupil from class for any of the listed acts, including willful defiance, for the day of the suspension and the day following."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "SB 274"
citation: "California SB 274 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Suspensions and expulsions", "interventions and supports", "willful defiance"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Skinner"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 26
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2023-02-01"
last_action: "2023-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/334b40a7-a9d0-4b51-805d-7364765bf1b4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB274"
source_hash: "2fe7ad381d8bd09f69078a619ffc09afe1cca75e3baa0979f37eb6f800d4c710"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---
# California SB 274 (20232024) — Suspensions and expulsions: willful defiance: interventions and supports.
(1) Existing law 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 an act from a list of specified acts, including, among other acts, disrupting school activities or otherwise willfully defying the valid authority of supervisors, teachers, administrators, school officials, or other school personnel engaged in the performance of their duties. Existing law authorizes a teacher to suspend any pupil from class for any of the listed acts, including willful defiance, for the day of the suspension and the day following.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/01/23 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB274&version=20230SB27499INT)
2. **04/10/23 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB274&version=20230SB27498AMD)
3. **07/03/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB274&version=20230SB27497AMD)
4. **08/14/23 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB274&version=20230SB27496AMD)
5. **10/08/23 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB274&version=20230SB27494CHP)
6. **SB274** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB274)
7. **09/11/23 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB274&version=20230SB27495ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **50** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **70** (pass) · upper
- SB 274 Skinner Senate Third Reading By Bonta — **6113** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **363** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **123** (pass) · lower
- Unfinished Business SB274 Skinner et al. Concurrence — **326** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Skinner — primary (person)
- Rubio — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-01** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2023-02-02** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 4.
- **2023-02-09** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-21** Set for hearing April 12.
- **2023-04-05** April 12 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2023-04-10** Set for hearing April 19.
- **2023-04-10** 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`
- **2023-04-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 789.) (April 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-04-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-05-11** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 36. Noes 3. Page 1049.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-05-11** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2023-05-18** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2023-06-20** June 28 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2023-07-03** 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`
- **2023-07-17** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (July 12). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-08-14** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2023-08-23** August 23 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
- **2023-09-01** Coauthors revised.
- **2023-09-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 3.) (September 1). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2023-09-06** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 61. Noes 13. Page 2959.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2023-09-06** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2023-09-07** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 32. Noes 6. Page 2467.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2023-09-13** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2023-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2023-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 597, Statutes of 2023. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/334b40a7-a9d0-4b51-805d-7364765bf1b4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).