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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Assembly Bill

AB 2362: Pupil transportation.

In committee Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

AB 2362 is a assembly bill introduced in the California Assembly on February 19, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Pupil transportation. Primary sponsor: Heather Hadwick (R). Most recent recorded action (April 15, 2026): In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to provide for the transportation of pupils to and from school whenever, in the judgment of the governing board, the transportation is advisable and good reasons exist to do so. Existing law requires a driver employed by a local educational agency, contracted by a local educational agency, or contracted by any entity with funding from a local educational agency, who provides school-related pupil transportation for compensation to be subject to specified requirements including, among others, having a satisfactory driving record, as provided. Existing law exempts from these requirements a school employee when the employee provides transportation to pupils due to or because of the employee’s supervision of pupils for a field trip, extracurricular activity, or athletic program, or when the employee provides transportation to pupils for other activities, not to exceed 40 hours of drive time per school year per employee.

This bill would, for a local educational agency with fewer than 2,500 units of average daily attendance and a frontier school district, as defined, set that limit at 200 hours of drive time instead of 40 hours. The bill would, contingent upon an appropriation, establish the Rural Transportation Safety Grant Program to provide funding to small and rural local educational agencies for costs associated with training, inspections, and compliance with, among other things, the above-described driver requirements.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Republican 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Heather HadwickPrimary sponsorRepublicanAssembly1

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
  2. Re-referred to Com. on ED.
  3. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended.
  4. Re-referred to Com. on ED.
  5. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended.
  6. Referred to Coms. on ED. and TRANS.
  7. From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
  8. Read first time. To print.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page