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CA AB 772

enacted

Cyberbullying: off-campus acts: model policy.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Quick answers

Did CA AB 772 pass?

Yes. CA AB 772 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-11. Latest recorded action (2025-10-11): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 620, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA AB 772 about?

Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to post, and annually update, on the State Department of Education's internet website and notify local educational agencies of the availability of a list of statewide resources, including community-based organizations, that provide support to youth, and their families, who have been subjected to school-based discrimination, harassment, intimidation, or bullying, as provided. Existing law requires a local educational agency to adopt, on or before December 31, 2019, procedures for preventing acts of bullying, including cyberbullying. This bill would require the department, on or before June 30, 2026, in consultation with relevant stakeholders, to develop, post on its internet website, and distribute to each local educational agency, as defined, a model policy on how to address certain reported acts of cyberbullying occurring outside of school hours and outside of the campus, as specified. The bill would require the model policy to clarify that local educational agencies are authorized, but not required, to address those acts. The bill would require each local educational agency, on or before July 1, 2027, to adopt a policy, or modify its existing procedures for preventing acts of bullying, on how to address certain reported acts of cyberbullying occurring outside of school hours and outside of the campus, as specified. The bill would authorize the adopted policy to be the model policy developed by the department or a locally adopted policy with input from stakeholders. The bill would require each local educational agency to post a copy of the adopted policy on its internet website and the internet website of each of its schoolsites. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Who sponsors CA AB 772?

Lowenthal is the primary sponsor of CA AB 772, joined by 2 cosponsors.

Description

Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to post, and annually update, on the State Department of Education's internet website and notify local educational agencies of the availability of a list of statewide resources, including community-based organizations, that provide support to youth, and their families, who have been subjected to school-based discrimination, harassment, intimidation, or bullying, as provided. Existing law requires a local educational agency to adopt, on or before December 31, 2019, procedures for preventing acts of bullying, including cyberbullying. This bill would require the department, on or before June 30, 2026, in consultation with relevant stakeholders, to develop, post on its internet website, and distribute to each local educational agency, as defined, a model policy on how to address certain reported acts of cyberbullying occurring outside of school hours and outside of the campus, as specified. The bill would require the model policy to clarify that local educational agencies are authorized, but not required, to address those acts. The bill would require each local educational agency, on or before July 1, 2027, to adopt a policy, or modify its existing procedures for preventing acts of bullying, on how to address certain reported acts of cyberbullying occurring outside of school hours and outside of the campus, as specified. The bill would authorize the adopted policy to be the model policy developed by the department or a locally adopted policy with input from stakeholders. The bill would require each local educational agency to post a copy of the adopted policy on its internet website and the internet website of each of its schoolsites. By imposing additional duties on local educational agencies, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program. The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement. This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.

Introduced
2025-04-01
Latest action
2025-10-11 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 620, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Lowenthalauthor
  • Bryanprincipal coauthor
  • Bontacoauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-02-18

    Read first time. To print.

    reading-1

  2. 2025-02-19

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.

  3. 2025-03-03

    Referred to Com. on ED.

    referral-committee

  4. 2025-04-01

    From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended.

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  5. 2025-04-02

    Re-referred to Com. on ED.

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  6. 2025-04-10

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 9).

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  7. 2025-04-21

    Read second time and amended.

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  8. 2025-04-22

    Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  9. 2025-05-07

    In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.

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  10. 2025-05-23

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23).

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  11. 2025-05-27

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  12. 2025-06-02

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 1843.)

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  13. 2025-06-03

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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  14. 2025-06-11

    Referred to Com. on ED.

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  15. 2025-06-27

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (June 25).

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  16. 2025-06-30

    Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  17. 2025-07-14

    In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

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  18. 2025-08-29

    Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

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  19. 2025-08-29

    From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (August 29).

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  20. 2025-09-02

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  21. 2025-09-08

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 7. Page 2617.).

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  22. 2025-09-08

    In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

  23. 2025-09-09

    Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 79. Noes 1. Page 3109.).

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  24. 2025-09-16

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

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  25. 2025-10-11

    Approved by the Governor.

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  26. 2025-10-11

    Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 620, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

  • 02/18/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-18Compare
  • 04/01/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-04-01Compare
  • 04/21/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-04-21Compare
  • 06/30/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-06-30Compare
  • 08/29/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-08-29Compare
  • 09/11/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-11Compare
  • 10/11/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-11Compare
  • AB772Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

  • Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-04-09 · pass · 9-0

    Member-level votes (9)
    • Castillo: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Alvarez: yes

  • Do pass.

    2025-05-23 · pass · 14-0

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Calderon: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Sanchez: other

  • AB 772 Lowenthal Assembly Third Reading

    2025-06-02 · pass · 79-0

    Member-level votes (79)
    • Rivas: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Gallagher: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Bains: yes

  • Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-06-25 · pass · 6-1

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Cortese: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: no

  • Placed on suspense file

    2025-07-14 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Seyarto: yes

  • Do pass as amended

    2025-08-29 · pass · 5-1

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Richardson: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Seyarto: no
    • Dahle: other

  • 3rd Reading AB772 Lowenthal et al. By Ashby

    2025-09-08 · pass · 30-7

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Wahab: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Reyes: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Niello: no
    • Jones: no
    • Alvarado-Gil: no
    • Seyarto: no
    • Strickland: no
    • Ochoa Bogh: no
    • Dahle: no
    • Stern: other
    • Valladares: other
    • Grove: other

  • AB 772 Lowenthal Concurrence in Senate Amendments By ORTEGA

    2025-09-09 · pass · 79-1

    Member-level votes (80)
    • Addis: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • DeMaio: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Tangipa: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Gallagher: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Johnson: no

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