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SB 303STATE · CaliforniaIntroduced

Employment: bias mitigation training: unlawful discrimination.

Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, prohibits various forms of employment and housing discrimination, including various types of discrimination because of national origin. Existing law empowers the Civil Rights Department to investigate and prosecute complaints alleging unlawful practices. This bill would provide that an employee's assessment, testing, admission, or acknowledgment of their own personal bias that was made in good faith and solicited or required as part of a bias mitigation training does not constitute unlawful discrimination, as prescribed.

Voted 10/1/2025View source

Roll-call record

How representatives voted

99 yea·10 nay

Docket history

Action history

  1. 10/1/2025Approved by the Governor.
  2. 10/1/2025Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 216, Statutes of 2025.
  3. 9/9/2025Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
  4. 9/2/2025Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2407.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  5. 8/28/2025Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2769.) Ordered to the Senate.
  6. 8/28/2025In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
  7. 7/10/2025Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  8. 7/9/2025From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 8).
  9. 7/2/2025From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
  10. 6/16/2025June 24 hearing postponed by committee.