20250AB__030292AMD INTRODUCED 2025-01-23 AMENDED_ASSEMBLY 2025-05-01 AMENDED_SENATE 2025-06-23 AMENDED_SENATE 2025-06-27 AMENDED_SENATE 2025-07-03 AMENDED_SENATE 2025-07-17 AMENDED_SENATE 2026-06-11 AMENDED_SENATE 2026-06-30 2025 AB AMD Introduced by Assembly Member Bauer-Kahan LEAD_AUTHOR ASSEMBLY Bauer-Kahan

An act to add

Section to, and to add

Article 10 (commencing with

Section 49058) to

Chapter of Part of Division of Title of, the Education Code, relating to local educational agencies. local educational agencies Pupil and parental communication: extracurricular activities: addictive feeds. Existing law requires the governing board of a school district that maintains one or more schools containing any of grades to 12, inclusive, to establish a policy regarding participation in extracurricular and cocurricular activities by pupils in those grades as a condition for the receipt of specified school funding allocations.

This bill, commencing with the 2027–28 school year, would prohibit a school district, county office of education, or charter school from excluding a pupil from participating in any extracurricular activity, including sports and clubs, due to the pupil not having or using addictive feeds, as defined.

Existing law provides that parents and guardians of children enrolled in public schools have the right and should have the opportunity, as mutually supportive and respectful partners in the education of their children within the public schools, to be informed by the school, and to participate in the education of their children, as specified, including by, among other things, to be notified on a timely basis if their child is absent from school without permission.

This bill, commencing with the 2027–28 school year, would prohibit a school district, county office of education, or charter school from using addictive feeds, as defined, as the only means of contacting pupils or pupils’ parents or guardians. MAJORITY NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION

Article 10 (commencing with

Section 49058) is added to

Chapter of Part of Division of Title of the Education Code , to read: 10. Extracurricular Activities 49058. (a)

(1) Commencing with the 2027–28 school year, a local educational agency shall not exclude a pupil from participating in any extracurricular activity, including sports and clubs, due to the pupil not having or using addictive feeds.

(2) Local educational agencies are encouraged to inform pupils and pupils’ parents or guardians about the pupils’ rights described in paragraph (1) in its pupil handbook or a similar document made generally available to pupils and their parents or guardians. (

b) For purposes of this section, the following

definitions apply: (1) “Addictive feed” means an internet website, online service, online application, or mobile application, or a portion thereof, in which multiple pieces of media generated or shared by users are, either concurrently or sequentially, recommended, selected, or prioritized for display to a user based, in whole or in part, on information provided by the user, or otherwise associated with the user or the user’s device, unless any of the following conditions are met: (

A) The information is not persistently associated with the user or user’s device and does not concern the user’s previous interactions with media generated or shared by others. (

B) The information consists of search terms that are not persistently associated with the user or user’s device. (

C) The information consists of user-selected privacy or accessibility settings, technical information concerning the user’s device, or device communications or signals concerning whether the user is a minor. (

D) The user expressly and unambiguously requested the specific media or media by the author, creator, or poster of the media, or the blocking, prioritization, or deprioritization of that media, provided that the media is not recommended, selected, or prioritized for display based, in whole or in part, on other information associated with the user or the user’s device, except as otherwise permitted by this

chapter and, if the media is audio or video content, is not automatically played. (

E) The media consists of direct, private communications between users. (

F) The media recommended, selected, or prioritized for display is exclusively the next media in a preexisting sequence from the same author, creator, poster, or source and, if the media is audio or video content, is not automatically played. (

G) The recommendation, selection, or prioritization of the media is necessary to comply with state or federal law. (2) “Local educational agency” means a school district, county office of education, or charter school.

SEC. 2.

Section is added to the Education Code , to read: 51103. (a)

(1) Commencing with the 2027–28 school year, a local educational agency is prohibited from using addictive feeds as the only means of contacting pupils or pupils’ parents or guardians.

(2) Local educational agencies are encouraged to inform pupils and pupils’ parents or guardians about the pupils’ rights described in paragraph (1) in its pupil handbook or a similar document made generally available to pupils and their parents or guardians. (

b) For purposes of this section, the following

definitions apply: (1) “Addictive feed” means an internet website, online service, online application, or mobile application, or a portion thereof, in which multiple pieces of media generated or shared by users are, either concurrently or sequentially, recommended, selected, or prioritized for display to a user based, in whole or in part, on information provided by the user, or otherwise associated with the user or the user’s device, unless any of the following conditions are met: (

A) The information is not persistently associated with the user or user’s device and does not concern the user’s previous interactions with media generated or shared by others. (

B) The information consists of search terms that are not persistently associated with the user or user’s device. (

C) The information consists of user-selected privacy or accessibility settings, technical information concerning the user’s device, or device communications or signals concerning whether the user is a minor. (

D) The user expressly and unambiguously requested the specific media or media by the author, creator, or poster of the media, or the blocking, prioritization, or deprioritization of that media, provided that the media is not recommended, selected, or prioritized for display based, in whole or in part, on other information associated with the user or the user’s device, except as otherwise permitted by this

chapter and, if the media is audio or video content, is not automatically played. (

E) The media consists of direct, private communications between users. (

F) The media recommended, selected, or prioritized for display is exclusively the next media in a preexisting sequence from the same author, creator, poster, or source and, if the media is audio or video content, is not automatically played. (

G) The recommendation, selection, or prioritization of the media is necessary to comply with state or federal law. (2) “Local educational agency” means a school district, county office of education, or charter school.