republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20212022/ab-58.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pupil health: suicide prevention policies and training."
description: "Existing law requires the governing board or body of 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 State Department of Education to develop and maintain a model policy in accordance with these provisions to serve as a guide for local educational agencies in developing policies for pupil suicide prevention."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 58"
citation: "California AB 58 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Pupil health: suicide prevention policies and training."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Salas"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 26
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2020-12-07"
last_action: "2022-09-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b0d1f926-d499-4ec6-b099-1c27cd4b4e2d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB58"
source_hash: "39d1d18a83b2c06191686a1037e3aff840958ca79c30c4546428606e162cfcfc"
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 58 (20212022) — Pupil health: suicide prevention policies and training.

Existing law requires the governing board or body of 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 State Department of Education to develop and maintain a model policy in accordance with these provisions to serve as a guide for local educational agencies in developing policies for pupil suicide prevention.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/07/20 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB58&version=20210AB5899INT)
2. **01/03/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB58&version=20210AB5898AMD)
3. **01/13/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB58&version=20210AB5897AMD)
4. **08/11/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB58&version=20210AB5896AMD)
5. **09/19/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB58&version=20210AB5894CHP)
6. **AB58** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB58)
7. **08/26/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB58&version=20210AB5895ENR)

## Votes

- AB 58 Salas Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- Special Consent AB58 — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **4–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 58 Salas Assembly Third Reading — **67–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **6–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Salas — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2020-12-07** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2020-12-08** From printer. May be heard in committee January 7.
- **2021-01-11** Referred to Coms. on ED. and HEALTH. `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-01-12** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (January 12). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2022-01-13** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-01-14** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (January 20). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-01-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-01-24** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 48. Noes 16. Page 3365.)
- **2022-01-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 3366.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-01-25** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-04** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-20** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2022-08-11** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. 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`
- **2022-08-22** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2022-08-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 4984.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-23** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 25 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2022-08-24** Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
- **2022-08-24** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 77. Noes 0.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-31** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2022-09-19** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 428, 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/b0d1f926-d499-4ec6-b099-1c27cd4b4e2d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).