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Bills · 2025-2026 Regular Session

AB 500

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Relating to: prohibiting corporal punishment in public and private schools.

Parochial and private schools School — Charter school School — Discipline and student rights School — Employee

  1. Introduced, stopped here
  2. Passes Assembly, not reached
  3. Passes Senate, not reached
  4. Governor signs, not reached
  5. Law, not reached

Unfamiliar terms? Glossary

What this bill does

Plain-language analysis by the nonpartisan Legislative Reference Bureau

Under current law, no official, employee, or agent of a school board may subject a pupil enrolled in the school district to corporal punishment. Current law defines “corporal punishment” as the intentional infliction of physical pain that is used as a means of discipline, which includes paddling, slapping, and prolonged maintenance of physically painful positions.

This bill expands the prohibition against subjecting pupils to corporal punishment to apply to officials, employees, and agents of school boards, governing boards of charter schools, and governing bodies of private schools.

Sponsors

Introduced by: Andraca (D) , Bare (D) , Billings (D) , Clancy (D) , DeSanto (D) , DeSmidt (D) , Emerson (D) , Fitzgerald (D) , Haywood (D) , Joers (D) , Johnson (D) , Madison (D) , Mayadev (D) , Miresse (D) , Phelps (D) , Roe (D) , Sinicki (D) , Snodgrass (D) , Stubbs (D) , Subeck (D) , Tenorio (D)

7 cosponsors

Hesselbein (D) , Larson (D) , McGuire (D) , Ratcliff (D) , Roys (D) , Sheehan (D) , Spreitzer (D)

Full history

  1. Oct 9, 2025 · Assembly

    Introduced by Representatives Clancy, Mayadev, Andraca, Bare, Billings, DeSanto, DeSmidt, Emerson, Fitzgerald, Joers, Johnson, Madison, Miresse, Phelps, Roe, Snodgrass, Stubbs, Subeck, Tenorio, Haywood and Sinicki; cosponsored by Senators Roys, Hesselbein, Larson, Ratcliff and Spreitzer

  2. Oct 9, 2025 · Assembly

    Read first time and referred to Committee on Education

  3. Oct 28, 2025 · Assembly

    Representative Sheehan added as a coauthor

  4. Mar 23, 2026 · Assembly

    Failed to pass pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution 1

  5. Jul 2, 2026 · Assembly

    Representative McGuire added as a coauthor