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---
type: "Bill"
title: "Online content: cyberbullying."
description: "Existing law, the Safe Place to Learn Act, requires the State Department of Education to assess whether local educational agencies have taken certain actions related to educational equity, including adopting a policy that prohibits discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying based on specified characteristics. Existing law requires local educational agencies, as defined, to adopt procedures for preventing acts of bullying, including cyberbullying. Existing law also 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 a specified act, including, among other acts, engaging in an act of bullying, which includes communications made in writing or by means of an electronic act, as defined."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 2879"
citation: "California AB 2879 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Online content: cyberbullying."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Low"]
version_count: 11
action_count: 29
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2022-02-18"
last_action: "2022-09-28"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/063f6b4b-771e-4527-956f-bb652b362933"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2879"
source_hash: "e0bf22a6f706596f16324cab85a686b9a4cec0ed47036c626ada2741271bf90f"
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 AB 2879 (20212022) — Online content: cyberbullying.
Existing law, the Safe Place to Learn Act, requires the State Department of Education to assess whether local educational agencies have taken certain actions related to educational equity, including adopting a policy that prohibits discrimination, harassment, intimidation, and bullying based on specified characteristics. Existing law requires local educational agencies, as defined, to adopt procedures for preventing acts of bullying, including cyberbullying. Existing law also 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 a specified act, including, among other acts, engaging in an act of bullying, which includes communications made in writing or by means of an electronic act, as defined.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/18/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2879&version=20210AB287999INT)
2. **04/07/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2879&version=20210AB287998AMD)
3. **04/21/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2879&version=20210AB287997AMD)
4. **06/09/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2879&version=20210AB287996AMD)
5. **06/21/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2879&version=20210AB287995AMD)
6. **06/30/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2879&version=20210AB287994AMD)
7. **08/11/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2879&version=20210AB287993AMD)
8. **08/24/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2879&version=20210AB287992AMD)
9. **09/28/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2879&version=20210AB287990CHP)
10. **AB2879** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2879)
11. **09/01/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB2879&version=20210AB287991ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass. — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2879 Low Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **67–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **9–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2879 Low Assembly Third Reading — **55–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB2879 Low et al. By Wiener — **38–0** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Low — primary (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-02-18** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2022-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2022-03-17** Referred to Coms. on P. & C.P. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-07** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. & C.P. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-04-18** Re-referred to Com. on P. & C.P. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-20** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 19). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-21** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-04-25** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2022-04-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-04-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-05** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 55. Noes 0. Page 4570.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-18** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-29** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (June 28). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-30** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-08-02** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2022-08-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 11). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage`
- **2022-08-11** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-15** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-24** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5198.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-29** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2022-08-30** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 1.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-09-02** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2022-09-28** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-28** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 700, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/063f6b4b-771e-4527-956f-bb652b362933`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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