SB328, the California bill for healthy school start times, passed the California State Assembly on Friday, 8/31/18  and has been forwarded to Governor Brown! He now has until Sept. 30 to sign or veto.

Please help us during this last, critical stage by sending a quick email expressing your support!

Take these easy steps:

• Below you will find lists of how every Assembly member voted the last time around. If your representative voted “no” or didn't vote at all, PLEASE take a few minutes TODAY to call and urge him or her to vote “yes” in support of SB 328 to provide healthy school start times of 8:30 a.m. or later for California's public middle and high schoolers! ​
• If your representative voted "yes" last time, please call to say thanks and encourage him or her to do so again!
• If you don’t know your representative, you can find out here.

DECLINED TO VOTE LAST TIME:
·        Aguiar-Curry: (916) 319-2004
·        Bloom: (916) 319-2050
·        Calderon:(916) 319-2057
·        Cervantes: (916) 319-2060
·        Chau:(916) 319-2049
·        Cooper:(916) 319-2009
·        Daly:(916) 319-2069
·        Frazier: (916) 319-2011
·        Friedman: (916) 319-2043
·        Eduardo Garcia:(916) 319-2056
·        Jones-Sawyer:(916) 319-2059
·        Limon:(916) 319-2037
·        Mayes:(916) 319-2042
·        McCarty: (916) 319-2007
·        Melendez: (916) 319-2067
·        Muratsuchi: (916) 319-2066
·        Nazarian: (916) 319-2046
·        Reyes:(916) 319-2047
·        Rodriguez: (916) 319-2052
·        Steinorth:(916) 319-2040
·        Ting: (916) 319-2019
·       Wood: (916) 319-2002

VOTED NO LAST TIME:
·        Acosta:(916) 319-2038
·        Baker: (916) 319-2016
·        Brough:(916) 319-2073
·        Cooley:(916) 319-2008
·        Dahle:(916) 319-2001
·        Gallager:(916) 319-2003
·        Cristina Garcia:(916) 319-2058
·        Gray:(916) 319-2021
·        Irwin:(916) 319-2044
·        Lackey:(916) 319-2036
·        Allen: (916) 319-2072
·        Bigelow: (916) 319-2005
·        Caballero: (916) 319-2030
·        Chen: (916) 319-2055
·        Choi: (916) 319.2068
·        Cunningham: (916) 319-2035
·        Eggman: (916) 319-2013
·        Flora: (916) 319-2012
·        Fong: (916) 319-2034
·        Harper: (916) 319-2074
·        Kiley: (916) 319-2006
·        Levine: (916) 319-2010
·        Mathis: (916) 319-2026
·        Medina: (916) 319-2061
·        O'Donnell: (916) 319-2070
·        Patterson: (916) 319-2023
·        Quirk Silva: (916) 319-2065
·        Salas: (916) 319-2032
·       Voepel: (916) 319-2071

VOTED YES LAST TIME:
·        Arambula: (916) 319-2031
·        Berman: (916) 319-2024
·        Bonta:  (916) 319-2018
·        Burke: (916) 319-2062
·        Chavez: (916) 319-2076
·        Chiu: (916) 319-2017
·        Chu: (916) 319-2025
·        Gipson: (916) 319-2064
·        Gloria: (916) 319-2078
·        Gonzales Fletcher: (916) 319-2080
·        Grayson: (916) 319-2014
·        Holden: (916) 319-2041
·        Kalra: (916) 319-2027
·        Low: (916) 319-2028
·        Maienschein: (916) 319-2077
·        Mullin: (916) 319-2022
·        Obernolte: (916) 319-2033
·        Quirk: (916) 319-2020
·        Rendon: (916) 319-2063 
·        Rubio: (916) 319-2048
·        Santiago: (916) 319-2053
·        Stone: (916) 319-2029
·        Thurmond: (916) 319-2015
·        Weber: (916) 319-2079

Welcome to Start School Later California!

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Update on California's
​Healthy Start Times Bill

​SB 328, the Start the School Day Later bill introduced earlier this year by Senator Anthony Portantino, passed the Assembly Education Committee on July 12 with a 5 to 2 vote! This bill has already passed the California State Senate.

This bill would push start times for California's middle and high schools to 8:30 a.m. or later, as recommended by the CDC, American Academy of Pediatrics, American Medical Association and other major groups. 

The next steps are the Assembly Appropriations Committee, then an all-Assembly vote. However, given that the state legislature will have a one-month summer recess, these won't take place until after then. Stay tuned for updates!

In the meantime, you can:
Sign our petition in support of legislation for healthy and safe school start times by clicking the "Our State Petition" button to the right
Learn more by clicking on the FAQs and SB 328 Fact Sheet buttons to the right. 

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About Start School Later California

The California chapter of Start School Later is headed by Irena Keller, Ph.D., and Lisa Lewis, M.S.

Dr. Irena Keller is an Adjunct Professor of Psychology and a parent. Having done her PhD dissertation on sleep and development, she has a good grasp of the scientific understanding of sleep and its importance for development and learning. As a parent of both a middle schooler and a high schooler, she has come to the realization that there is a big gap between the scientific knowledge about sleep and the actual public policies and school schedules.

Lisa Lewis is a parent and writer based near Los Angeles who has written about teen sleep and school start times for Slate and the Los Angeles Times. As a parent of a high-schooler and a middle schooler, she has seen firsthand the effects of too-early start times. Her interviews and conversations with sleep researchers and leaders nationwide who have brought about change in their communities have reinforced the importance of school start times and underscored that they can and have been successfully implemented.

The CDC, American Medical Association, American Academy of Pediatrics and others recommend that middle and high schools start at 8:30 a.m. or later, given the significant health impacts to adolescents of sleep deprivation and the research showing that moving the start of the school day is the proven best way to address this. Only 21% of California’s public middle and high schools start school currently meet these guidelines, with some starting as early as 7 a.m. 

The Start School Later California chapter was launched by Dr. Keller in 2016 to begin closing the gap between science and public school policies and to improve the health and safety of public school students by advocating for more developmentally appropriate school start times. Lewis joined as co-leader in 2017.

The California chapter supports SB 328, the California state bill introduced in February 2017 that would move start times at all public middle and high schools in the state to 8:30 a.m. or later. This bill, if passed, would go into effect in July 2020.
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We also work with chapter leaders in various communities in California to help them promote awareness of the issue and bring about change in their districts.

To contact Irena, Lisa and the California chapter, please fill out the contact form on this page or send an email to [email protected]. You can also stay up to date on our activities by liking our page on Facebook .

California now also has four local chapters:

• Chico 
• Los Angeles 
• Redlands
• San Diego 

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SB328: Hearing before the Senate Education Committee, April 19, 2017

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