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type: "Bill"
title: "School safety: homicide threats."
description: "Existing law requires school districts and county offices of education to be responsible for the overall development of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of their schools operating a kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Existing law requires a comprehensive school safety plan to include, among other things, the development of procedures for conducting tactical responses to criminal incidents, including procedures related to individuals with guns on school campuses. Existing law prohibits school employees from conducting a body cavity search or visual inspection under the clothing of a pupil, as provided. Under existing law, pupil and pupil property searches at a schoolsite by school officials are generally justified at their inception if reasonable grounds suggest a search will lead to relevant evidence."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 906"
citation: "California SB 906 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["School safety: homicide threats."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Portantino"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 35
vote_count: 11
first_action: "2022-02-02"
last_action: "2022-07-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f463c782-4b1f-4a7d-88bb-a216591b0cd1"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB906"
source_hash: "9d5a742e294ac35146a7ad2fa60c23a53c56a2ba1dcea690e440584c30ef6078"
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 906 (20212022) — School safety: homicide threats.
Existing law requires school districts and county offices of education to be responsible for the overall development of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of their schools operating a kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive. Existing law requires a comprehensive school safety plan to include, among other things, the development of procedures for conducting tactical responses to criminal incidents, including procedures related to individuals with guns on school campuses. Existing law prohibits school employees from conducting a body cavity search or visual inspection under the clothing of a pupil, as provided. Under existing law, pupil and pupil property searches at a schoolsite by school officials are generally justified at their inception if reasonable grounds suggest a search will lead to relevant evidence.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **02/02/22 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB906&version=20210SB90699INT)
2. **04/07/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB906&version=20210SB90698AMD)
3. **06/16/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB906&version=20210SB90697AMD)
4. **06/23/22 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB906&version=20210SB90696AMD)
5. **07/21/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB906&version=20210SB90694CHP)
6. **SB906** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB906)
7. **07/05/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB906&version=20210SB90695ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass — **52** (pass) · upper
- W/O REF. TO FILE — **320** (pass) · upper
- [First] hearing set for [03-30-2022]: Failed passage in Committee. Reconsideration granted — **40** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — **22** (fail) · upper
- Do pass as amended. — **150** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — **51** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **30** (pass) · upper
- SB 906 Portantino Senate Third Reading By Friedman — **780** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **60** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **266** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **70** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Portantino — primary (person)
- Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
- Davies — coauthor (person)
- Gipson — principal coauthor (person)
- Irwin — principal coauthor (person)
- Levine — coauthor (person)
- Low — coauthor (person)
- Santiago — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2022-02-02** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2022-02-03** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 5.
- **2022-02-07** Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
- **2022-02-07** (Ayes 31. Noes 6.)
- **2022-02-07** Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 31. Noes 6. Page 2880.)
- **2022-02-09** Referred to Coms. on ED. and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-08** Set for hearing March 23.
- **2022-03-17** March 23 hearing postponed by committee.
- **2022-03-24** Set for hearing March 30.
- **2022-03-30** March 30 set for first hearing. Failed passage in committee. (Ayes 2. Noes 2. Page 3271.) Reconsideration granted. `committee-failure`
- **2022-04-06** Set for hearing April 20.
- **2022-04-07** 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`
- **2022-04-08** Set for hearing April 26 in PUB. S. pending receipt.
- **2022-04-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 3457.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-27** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 0. Page 3518.) (April 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2022-04-29** Set for hearing May 9.
- **2022-05-09** May 9 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
- **2022-05-13** Set for hearing May 19.
- **2022-05-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 3774.) (May 19). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-05-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-05-24** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 26. Noes 6. Page 3865.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-05-25** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2022-05-27** Referred to Coms. on ED. and PUB. S. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-02** Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2022-06-15** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 14). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-16** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2022-06-22** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 22). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-06-23** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-06-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-06-30** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5677.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-06-30** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2022-06-30** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 4577.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-07-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
- **2022-07-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-07-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 144, 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/f463c782-4b1f-4a7d-88bb-a216591b0cd1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).