republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/sb-997.md

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Bill	Pupil health: opioid antagonists and fentanyl test strips.	Existing law requires the governing board of any school district to give diligent care to the health and physical development of pupils. Existing law authorizes a school district, county office of education, and charter school to provide emergency naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist to school nurses or trained personnel who have volunteered, and authorizes school nurses or trained personnel to use naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an opioid overdose, as provided.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20232024	SB 997	California SB 997 (20232024)	bill	Pupil health opioid antagonists and fentanyl test strips	enacted	Portantino	8	34	9	2024-01-31	2024-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/adeb411b-6413-48cc-bdb6-cf3c070f24ec	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240SB997	b423b17ede72096bc374a54ed265437126ed34946955aea4eee633da98cc80be	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 997 (20232024) — Pupil health: opioid antagonists and fentanyl test strips.

Existing law requires the governing board of any school district to give diligent care to the health and physical development of pupils. Existing law authorizes a school district, county office of education, and charter school to provide emergency naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist to school nurses or trained personnel who have volunteered, and authorizes school nurses or trained personnel to use naloxone hydrochloride or another opioid antagonist to provide emergency medical aid to persons suffering, or reasonably believed to be suffering, from an opioid overdose, as provided.

Version chain

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

1. 01/31/24 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/21/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/08/24 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/17/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/22/24 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/28/24 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB997 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/04/24 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent SB997 Portantino et al. — 37–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 11–0 (pass) · upper
• Special Consent SB997 Portantino et al. — 40–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 997 Portantino Senate Third Reading By Boerner — 77–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Health] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Portantino — primary (person)
• Alanis — coauthor (person)
• Arambula — coauthor (person)
• Blanca Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Davies — coauthor (person)
• Dixon — coauthor (person)
• Grayson — coauthor (person)
• Hoover — coauthor (person)
• Joe Patterson — coauthor (person)
• Lackey — coauthor (person)
• Low — coauthor (person)
• Ochoa Bogh — coauthor (person)
• Ortega — coauthor (person)
• Pacheco — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Sanchez — coauthor (person)
• Schiavo — coauthor (person)
• Weber — coauthor (person)
• Wilk — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-31 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2024-02-01 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 2.
• 2024-02-14 Referred to Coms. on ED. and HEALTH. referral-committee
• 2024-03-01 Set for hearing March 20.
• 2024-03-20 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HEALTH with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3378.) (March 20). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-03-21 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-03 Set for hearing April 24.
• 2024-04-08 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on HEALTH. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
• 2024-04-18 April 24 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2024-04-18 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2024-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 11. Noes 0. Page 3702.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2024-04-26 Set for hearing May 6.
• 2024-05-06 May 6 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
• 2024-05-10 Set for hearing May 16.
• 2024-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3967.) (May 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-05-16 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-05-20 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2024-05-23 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 4178.) 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
• 2024-06-13 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (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
• 2024-07-02 July 2 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
• 2024-08-15 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (August 15). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-08-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2024-08-22 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-22 Ordered to third reading.
• 2024-08-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6697.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2024-08-28 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2024-08-29 Ordered to special consent calendar.
• 2024-08-30 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 5748.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2024-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2024-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2024-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 872, Statutes of 2024. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/adeb411b-6413-48cc-bdb6-cf3c070f24ec. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).