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 03/09/26 - Amended Assembly
 02/05/26 - Introduced

 AB-1721 Pupil safety: comprehensive school safety plans.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 06/08/2026 09:00 PM

AB1721:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Senate
 June 08, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 09, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 1721

Introduced by Assembly Member Muratsuchi

February 05, 2026

 An act to add Section 32282.3 to the Education Code, relating to pupil safety. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1721, as amended, Muratsuchi.
 Pupil safety: comprehensive school safety plans.

Under existing law, each school district and county office of education is responsible for the overall development of a comprehensive school safety plan for each of its schools operating kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive, in cooperation with certain local entities. Existing law requires that the plan include identification of appropriate strategies and programs that will provide or maintain a high level of school safety and address the school’s procedures for complying with existing laws related to school safety.

This bill would require the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in consultation with the State Board of Education, to, on or before July 1, 2027, convene a statewide stakeholder workgroup, as provided, to review existing comprehensive school safety plans and make recommendations on the development and approval process
 and the required elements of a comprehensive school safety plan, as provided. The bill would require the Superintendent to, on or before July 1, 2028, submit a report on the recommendations of the workgroup to the Department of Finance and appropriate fiscal and policy committees of the Legislature. The bill would authorize the State Department of Education to enter into exclusive or nonexclusive contracts, as provided, with nongovernmental entities to implement these provisions.

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 32282.3 is added to the Education Code, to read:

32282.3.

 (a) The Legislature finds and declares all of the following:

(1) The California Constitution guarantees California children the right to attend public schools that are safe, secure, and peaceful.

(2) The state, school districts, county offices of education, and schools, and their personnel, are responsible for creating learning environments that are safe and secure. First responders, community partners, and families also play essential roles.

(3) Schools must be prepared to respond to emergencies, including natural and man-made hazards, and strive to
 prevent violence and behaviors that undermine safety and security.

(4) Comprehensive school safety plans include strategies aimed at the prevention of, and education about, potential crime and violence on a school campus and strategies aimed at ensuring social, emotional, and physical safety for both youth and adults.

(5) Since 2002, a school has been required to adopt and, on or before March 1 of each year, update the school’s comprehensive school safety plan.

(6) Schools have been increasingly affected by safety issues that were not addressed when safety plans were first adopted, such as increased incidences of active school shooters, the opioid crisis, and wildfires and other natural disasters.

(7) The Legislature has responded to emerging safety issues by requiring schools to be prepared to respond. These new requirements, while critical, have been imposed without a formal review of the best way to ensure comprehensive school safety plans retain their focus.

(8) Following the addition of these new requirements for a comprehensive school safety plan over the last few years, there is a need to have experts review all the requirements for comprehensive school safety plans, conduct a thorough assessment, and make recommendations to policymakers on how to improve and update the plans while maintaining all critical elements.

(b) (1) The Superintendent, in consultation with the state board, shall,
 on or before July 1, 2027, appoint and convene a statewide stakeholder workgroup on sch