republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-2350.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Open meetings: school boards: emergencies: notifications by email."
description: "Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, generally requires that meetings of a legislative body of a local agency be conducted openly and that the body provide notice, as specified, prior to its meetings. In an emergency situation involving matters upon which prompt action is necessary due to the disruption or threatened disruption of public facilities, existing law authorizes a legislative body to hold an emergency meeting without complying with specified 24-hour notice and posting requirements. Existing law instead requires the presiding officer of the legislative body, or a designee, to notify specified media entities by telephone one hour before the emergency meeting or at or near the time the members of the legislative body are notified, as specified. If the telephone services are not functioning, existing law waives this notification requirement and requires the legislative body, or a designee, to notify those media entities of certain details of the emergency meeting as soon after the meeting as possible."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2350"
citation: "California AB 2350 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Open meetings", "emergencies", "notifications by email", "school boards"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Hoover"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 21
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2024-02-12"
last_action: "2024-09-25"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2fd8ccae-6d54-490d-a1dd-8dcb9363bf7a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2350"
source_hash: "69344c84d1e4061c2a28fb628663ff01691a46e062949c717f111cff78a3d8f5"
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 2350 (20232024) — Open meetings: school boards: emergencies: notifications by email.

Existing law, the Ralph M. Brown Act, generally requires that meetings of a legislative body of a local agency be conducted openly and that the body provide notice, as specified, prior to its meetings. In an emergency situation involving matters upon which prompt action is necessary due to the disruption or threatened disruption of public facilities, existing law authorizes a legislative body to hold an emergency meeting without complying with specified 24-hour notice and posting requirements. Existing law instead requires the presiding officer of the legislative body, or a designee, to notify specified media entities by telephone one hour before the emergency meeting or at or near the time the members of the legislative body are notified, as specified. If the telephone services are not functioning, existing law waives this notification requirement and requires the legislative body, or a designee, to notify those media entities of certain details of the emergency meeting as soon after the meeting as possible.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/12/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2350&version=20230AB235099INT)
2. **05/29/24 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2350&version=20230AB235098AMD)
3. **09/25/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2350&version=20230AB235096CHP)
4. **AB2350** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2350)
5. **08/19/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2350&version=20230AB235097ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Education] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 2350 Hoover Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2350 Hoover Consent Calendar Second Day — **71–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Education] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **9–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Hoover — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-12** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-13** From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
- **2024-02-26** Referred to Com. on L. GOV. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on ED. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on ED. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-25** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-05-08** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 8). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-09** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-29** Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and ED. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-29** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-05** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 5). Re-referred to Com. on ED. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-07-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-08-05** From committee: Be ordered to second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to Consent Calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2024-08-06** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5044.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 14 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2024-08-15** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 6318.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-08-23** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-25** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-25** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 565, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2fd8ccae-6d54-490d-a1dd-8dcb9363bf7a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).