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Authors Gipson  
Coauthors: Connolly   Ward  
Subject Pupil safety: notifications: firearms.
Relating To relating to pupil safety.
Title An act to amend Sections 32289.6, 48986, and 49604 of, and to repeal Sections 49391 and 49392 of, the Education Code, relating to pupil safety.
Last Action Dt 2026-03-23
State Amended Assembly
Status In Committee Process
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Bill Actions
2026-03-24     Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
2026-03-23     Read second time and amended.
2026-03-19     From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (March 18).
2026-03-10     Re-referred to Com. on ED.
2026-03-09     From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended.
2026-03-02     Referred to Com. on ED.
2026-02-14     From printer. May be heard in committee March 16.
2026-02-13     Read first time. To print.
Versions
Amended Assembly     2026-03-23
Amended Assembly     2026-03-09
Introduced     2026-02-13
Analyses TBD
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(1) Existing law requires a school district, county office of education, and charter school to annually inform parents and guardians of pupils at the beginning of the first semester or quarter of the regular school term of California’s child access prevention laws and laws relating to the safe storage of firearms, as specified. Existing law requires the State Department of Education, on or before July 1, 2023, to develop, and subsequently update as provided, in consultation with the Department of Justice, and provide to school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, and, upon request, to provide to private schools, model language for the notice regarding those child access prevention and safe storage of firearms laws.

(2) Existing law requires the department, on or before June 15, 2025, to curate and post on its internet website best practices pertaining to school shooter or other armed assailant drills for use by school districts, county offices of education, and charter schools, as provided. Existing law encourages a school district, county office of education, or charter school to comply with those best practices.

This bill would require those best practices to also include distributing the Secure Firearm Storage Notice published by the department when providing a specified drill-related notice to parents and guardians of pupils and a recommendation to post the notice on the local educational agency’s internet website.

(3) Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to send a notice to each middle school, junior high school, and high school that encourages each school to provide suicide prevention training to each school counselor at least one time while employed as a counselor, provides information on the availability of the suicide prevention training curriculum developed by the department, and informs schools about the suicide prevention training provided by the department and describes how a school might retain those services.

This bill would require that notice to also include the Secure Firearm Storage Notification model content published by the department as an example of information about reducing access to lethal means that can be given by a school counselor to a pupil’s family, as provided.