republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20232024/ab-2690.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Pupil safety: parental notification: synthetic drugs."
description: "Existing law requires a school district, county office of education, and charter school to annually inform parents or guardians, at the beginning of the first semester or quarter of the regular school term, of the dangers associated with using synthetic drugs and the possibility that dangerous synthetic drugs can be found in counterfeit pills, as provided. If a local educational agency maintains an internet website, existing law requires the local educational agency to post this information on their internet website, and to ensure that each individual school within the local educational agency that maintains an individual internet website also posts the information on that school's internet website, as provided."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 2690"
citation: "California AB 2690 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Pupil safety", "parental notification", "synthetic drugs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Joe Patterson"]
version_count: 4
action_count: 18
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2024-02-14"
last_action: "2024-09-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d76c334f-a861-46cc-b4a3-b4596efed5ee"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2690"
source_hash: "dd6a2fb79a3b2fe7217a6dcab615b331f7337b359d72648536e6ee2d4f844599"
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 2690 (20232024) — Pupil safety: parental notification: synthetic drugs.

Existing law requires a school district, county office of education, and charter school to annually inform parents or guardians, at the beginning of the first semester or quarter of the regular school term, of the dangers associated with using synthetic drugs and the possibility that dangerous synthetic drugs can be found in counterfeit pills, as provided. If a local educational agency maintains an internet website, existing law requires the local educational agency to post this information on their internet website, and to ensure that each individual school within the local educational agency that maintains an individual internet website also posts the information on that school's internet website, as provided.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/14/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2690&version=20230AB269099INT)
2. **09/14/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2690&version=20230AB269097CHP)
3. **AB2690** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2690)
4. **08/14/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB2690&version=20230AB269098ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 2690 Joe Patterson Assembly Third Reading — **65–0** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB2690 Joe Patterson — **38–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Joe Patterson — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
- **2024-03-04** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-24** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 16). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 0. Page 5498.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-06-05** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 26). 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 5045.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-12** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2024-08-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2024-09-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 241, 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/d76c334f-a861-46cc-b4a3-b4596efed5ee`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).