Amended  IN  Senate  March 25, 2026

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill
No. 1355

Introduced by Senator Smallwood-Cuevas

February 20, 2026

An act to amend Section 1051 of the Business and Professions Code, relating to healing arts. An act to add Section 38006 to the Education Code, relating to school safety.


LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


SB 1355, as amended, Smallwood-Cuevas. Healing arts: chiropractic corporations: application. School safety: school security departments: contracted private licensed security agencies.
Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to establish a security department under the supervision of a chief of security as designated by, and under the direction of, the superintendent of the school district and to employ personnel to ensure the safety of school district personnel and pupils, as provided. Existing law authorizes the governing board of a school district to contract with a private licensed security agency to ensure the safety of school district personnel and pupils and the security of the real and personal property of the school district when the personnel normally required to provide those services fail to do so because of an emergency or when such an emergency necessitates additional security services, as provided.
This bill would require the governing board of a school district that establishes a security department, and the governing board or body of a local educational agency, as defined, that enters into a contract on or after January 1, 2027, with a private licensed security agency to provide school security services, to (1) specify the parameters on the use of weapons, including, but not limited to, handcuffs, pepper spray, batons, and firearms, on a school campus and (2) specify the roles and responsibilities of school administrators, school security department personnel, and contracted school security officers for purposes of ensuring the safety of personnel and pupils, consistent with assigning school administrators primary responsibility for deescalation.

Existing law, the Chiropractic Act, enacted by an initiative measure, provides for the licensure of chiropractors and registration of chiropractic corporations, as well as the regulation of both, by the State Board of Chiropractic Examiners. Existing law requires a chiropractic corporation applicant to supply to the board all necessary and pertinent documents and information requested by the board concerning the applicant’s plan of operations. Existing law authorizes the board to provide forms of application for these applicants.

This bill would instead require the board to provide forms of application to chiropractic corporation applicants.

Vote: MAJORITY   Appropriation: NO   Fiscal Committee: YES   Local Program: NO  

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:


SECTION 1.

 Section 38006 is added to the Education Code, immediately following Section 38005, to read:

38006.
 (a) The governing board of a school district that establishes a security department pursuant to Section 38000, and the governing board or body of a local educational agency that enters into a contract on or after January 1, 2027, with a private licensed security agency to provide school security services, shall do both of the following:
(1) Specify the parameters on the use of weapons, including, but not limited to, handcuffs, pepper spray, batons, and firearms, on a school campus.
(2) Specify the roles and responsibilities of school administrators, school security department personnel employed pursuant to Section 38000, and contracted school security officers, as applicable, for purposes of ensuring the safety of personnel and pupils, consistent with assigning school administrators primary responsibility for deescalation.
(b) For purposes of this section, “local educational agency” means a school district, county office of education, or charter school.

SECTION 1.Section 1051 of the Business and Professions Code is amended to read:
1051.

(a)An applicant for registration as a chiropractic corporation shall supply to the board all necessary and pertinent documents and information requested by the board concerning the applicant’s plan of operations.

(b)The board shall provide forms of application.

(c)If the board finds that the corporation is duly organized and existing pursuant to the General Corporation Law, that each officer as provided in Section 1055, director, shareholder and each employee who will render professional services is a licensed person as defined in the Professional Corporation Act, and that from the application it appears that the affairs of the corporation will be conducted in compliance with law and the rules and regulations of the board, the board shall upon payment of the registration fee in such amount as it may determine issue a certificate of registration.