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 04/14/26 - Amended Senate
 02/17/26 - Introduced

 SB-1128 Pupils: technology-based materials: school-issued electronic devices.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 07/02/2026 09:00 PM

SB1128:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 July 02, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 April 14, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 1128

Introduced by Senator Stern

February 17, 2026

 An act to add Section 60077 to the Education Code, relating to pupils. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1128, as amended, Stern.
 Pupils: technology-based materials: school-issued electronic devices.

Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district, when adopting instructional materials for use in school, to include relevant technology-based materials, defined for these purposes to mean basic or supplemental instructional materials that are designed for use by pupils and teachers as learning resources and that require the availability of electronic equipment in order to be used as a learning resource, and including the electronic equipment required to make use of those materials used by pupils and teachers as a learning resource, including, but not limited to, laptop computers and devices that provide internet access. Existing law prohibits a school official from requiring a pupil to purchase any instructional materials for the pupil’s use in the school, except as provided.

Commencing with the 2027–28 school year, this bill
 would prohibit prohibit, unless necessary under a specified circumstance, a school district, county office of education, or charter school from requiring a pupil in kindergarten, including a pupil in transitional kindergarten, to take home a school-issued electronic device, as defined, except that a local educational agency may authorize those pupils to take home a school-issued electronic device. The bill would encourage local educational agencies to regularly review and update their policies related to pupils’ screen time and, in conducting that review, to solicit input from, among others, currently employed teachers and school administrators.

 This bill would require
 the State Department of Education, on or before July 1, 2027, to (1) develop and post on its internet website model policies for the age-appropriate use of school-issued electronic devices in school and to take into consideration when developing those policies, among other things, developmentally appropriate screen exposure time. time at each grade level and (2) provide guidance and resources to 5 or more local educational agencies that elect to participate in a pilot to remove take-home school-issued electronic devices from pupils, as specified.

Digest Key

 Vote:
 MAJORITY 
 Appropriation:
 NO 
 Fiscal Committee:
 YES 
 Local Program:
 NO 

Bill Text

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

 Section 60077 is added to the Education Code, immediately following Section 60076, to read:

60077.

 (a) Commencing with the 2027–28 school year, a local educational agency shall not require, but may authorize, a pupil in kindergarten to take home a school-issued electronic device. device unless the device is necessary under one of the following circumstances:

(1) Pursuant to a pupil’s individualized education program, as defined in Section 56032.

(2) In the case of a local or state emergency that interferes with the ability of a pupil to attend class in person, as determined by the local educational agency.

(3) Pursuant to an independent study program established pursuant to Article 5.5 (commencing with Section 51745) of Chapter 5 of Part 28.

(b) Local educational agencies are encouraged to regularly review and update their policies related to pupils’ screen time, including time spent on electronic devices in the classroom and completing homework, and providing pupils with school-issued devices for these purposes. In conducting a review, local educational agencies are encouraged to solicit input
 from currently employed teachers and school administrators, parents and guardians of enrolled pupils, enrolled pupils, and any other stakeholder groups deemed relevant, and are encouraged to consider all of the following in the review:

(