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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 945: School curriculum: physical education framework: cardiopulmonary resuscitation: automated external defibrillators.

Enacted 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

SB 945 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on February 2, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: School curriculum: physical education framework: cardiopulmonary resuscitation: automated external defibrillators. Primary sponsor: Akilah Weber Pierson (D). It lists 8 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (September 30, 2026): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 992, Statutes of 2026.

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Official summary

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

Existing law requires the governing board of a school district or the governing body of a charter school that requires a course in health education for graduation from high school to include instruction in performing compression-only cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), as provided. Existing law also encourages those entities to provide to pupils general information on the use and importance of an automated external defibrillators (AED). Existing law further requires the State Department of Education to provide guidance on how to implement these provisions, including, but not limited to, who may provide instruction.

Existing law establishes the Instructional Quality Commission and requires the commission to, among other things, recommend curriculum frameworks to the State Board of Education.

This bill would require the commission, when the physical education framework is next revised after January 1, 2027, to consider including content on the importance, performance, and use of CPR and AEDs in that framework.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 6 · Republican 3

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Akilah Weber PiersonPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate39
Juan AlanisCo-sponsorRepublicanAssembly22
Anna CaballeroCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate14
Laurie DaviesCo-sponsorRepublicanAssembly74
Robert GarciaCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly50
Stephen PadillaCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate18
Laura RichardsonCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate35
LaShae Sharp-CollinsCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly79
Greg WallisCo-sponsorRepublicanAssembly47

“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. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 992, Statutes of 2026.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
  4. In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  5. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 6264.) Ordered to the Senate.
  6. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  7. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 13).
  8. Assembly Rule 63 suspended.
  9. July 1 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
  10. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
  11. Coauthors revised.
  12. Referred to Com. on ED.

Sources

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