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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 959: Average daily attendance: emergencies: major safety hazard.

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 959 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on February 3, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: Average daily attendance: emergencies: major safety hazard. Primary sponsor: Timothy Grayson (D). It lists 18 additional sponsors. Most recent recorded action (September 29, 2026): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 773, 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.

For purposes of state apportionments based on average daily attendance, as provided, if the average daily attendance of a school district, county office of education, or charter school has been materially decreased during a fiscal year because of a specified emergency, including, among others, the imminence of a major safety hazard as determined by a local law enforcement agency, existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to estimate the average daily attendance in a manner that credits to the school district, county office of education, or charter school approximately the total average daily attendance that would have been credited to the school district, county office of education, or charter school had the emergency not occurred.

This bill, for the above-described purposes, would additionally allow a local fire agency to make a determination of the imminence of a major safety hazard.

This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 19

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Timothy GraysonPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate9
Benjamin AllenCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate24
Bob ArchuletaCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate30
Jesse ArreguínCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate7
Angelique AshbyCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate8
Rebecca Bauer-KahanCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly16
Catherine BlakespearCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate38
Christopher CabaldonCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate3
Anna CaballeroCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate14
Dave CorteseCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate15
Lena GonzalezCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate33
Jerry McNerneyCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate5
Caroline MenjivarCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate20
Akilah Weber PiersonCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate39
Eloise Gómez ReyesCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate29
Laura RichardsonCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate35
Nick SchultzCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly44
Aisha WahabCo-sponsorDemocraticSenate10
Buffy WicksCo-sponsorDemocraticAssembly14

“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 773, Statutes of 2026.
  2. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 773, Statutes of 2026.
  3. Approved by the Governor.
  4. Approved by the Governor.
  5. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
  6. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
  7. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 6018.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  8. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  9. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
  10. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
  11. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6553.) Ordered to the Senate.
  12. Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6553.) Ordered to the Senate.

Sources

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