CA AB 1803
enactedEmployment: sexual harassment training and education: anti-hate speech training.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
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Quick answers
Did CA AB 1803 pass?
Yes. CA AB 1803 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2026-09-27): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 547, Statutes of 2026.
What is CA AB 1803 about?
The California Fair Employment and Housing Act makes specified employment practices unlawful, including the harassment of an employee directly by the employer or indirectly by agents of the employer with the employer's knowledge. Under existing law, the Civil Rights Department administers these provisions. Existing law requires a specified employer with 5 or more employees to, by January 1, 2021, provide at least 2 hours of classroom or other effective interactive training and education regarding sexual harassment to all supervisory employees and at least one hour of classroom or other effective interactive training and education regarding sexual harassment to all nonsupervisory employees in California and, after that date, once every 2 years. Existing law requires an employer to include prevention of abusive conduct as a component of that training and education. This bill would additionally require that, beginning January 1, 2028, the above-described training and education include, as a component of the training and education, anti-hate speech training, as specified.
Who sponsors CA AB 1803?
Lowenthal is the primary sponsor of CA AB 1803, joined by 4 cosponsors.
Description
The California Fair Employment and Housing Act makes specified employment practices unlawful, including the harassment of an employee directly by the employer or indirectly by agents of the employer with the employer's knowledge. Under existing law, the Civil Rights Department administers these provisions. Existing law requires a specified employer with 5 or more employees to, by January 1, 2021, provide at least 2 hours of classroom or other effective interactive training and education regarding sexual harassment to all supervisory employees and at least one hour of classroom or other effective interactive training and education regarding sexual harassment to all nonsupervisory employees in California and, after that date, once every 2 years. Existing law requires an employer to include prevention of abusive conduct as a component of that training and education. This bill would additionally require that, beginning January 1, 2028, the above-described training and education include, as a component of the training and education, anti-hate speech training, as specified.
- Introduced
- 2026-04-08
- Latest action
- 2026-09-27 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 547, Statutes of 2026.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Lowenthalauthor
- Zburauthor
- Jacksonprincipal coauthor
- Wardcoauthor
- Smallwood-Cuevascoauthor
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
Newest first
2026-09-27
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 547, Statutes of 2026.
became-law
2026-09-27
Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature
2026-09-03
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
executive-receipt
2026-08-26
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 11.).
amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2026-08-26
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 11. Page 6596.).
amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2026-08-25
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2026-08-25
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 7.).
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-08-17
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2026-08-13
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
amendment-passage,reading-1,reading-2
2026-08-13
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 13).
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2026-08-03
In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
referral-committee
2026-07-01
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2026-06-17
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD.
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2026-06-10
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2026-05-13
Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD.
referral-committee
2026-05-05
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
reading-1,referral-committee
2026-05-04
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 10. Page 4905.)
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2026-04-23
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
reading-1,reading-2,reading-3
2026-04-22
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (April 22).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2026-04-13
Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
referral-committee
2026-04-09
Read second time and amended.
amendment-passage,reading-1,reading-2
2026-04-08
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (April 7).
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,referral-committee
2026-03-19
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 18). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2026-02-23
Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD.
referral-committee
2026-02-11
From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.
2026-02-10
Read first time. To print.
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Votes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]
2026-03-18 · pass · 6-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Lee: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Chen: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Alanis: other
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-04-07 · pass · 9-2
Member-level votes (12)
- Papan: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Lee: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Macedo: no
- Sanchez: no
- Dixon: other
Do pass.
2026-04-22 · pass · 9-2
Member-level votes (15)
- Fong: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Krell: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Solache: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Hoover: no
- Tangipa: no
- Ta: other
- Muratsuchi: other
- Dixon: other
- Calderon: other
AB 1803 Lowenthal Assembly Third Reading
2026-05-04 · pass · 57-10
Member-level votes (80)
- Jackson: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Krell: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Haney: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Ward: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Solache: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Soria: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Berman: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Patel: yes
- Bains: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Fong: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Papan: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Addis: yes
- Lee: yes
- Hart: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Johnson: no
- Tangipa: no
- Ellis: no
- Hoover: no
- Hadwick: no
- Patterson: no
- DeMaio: no
- Gallagher: no
- Macedo: no
- Sanchez: no
- Arambula: other
- Chen: other
- Wallis: other
- Bennett: other
- Flora: other
- Jeff Gonzalez: other
- Caloza: other
- Dixon: other
- Alanis: other
- Lackey: other
- Castillo: other
- Davies: other
- Ta: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]
2026-06-10 · pass · 4-0
Member-level votes (5)
- Cortese: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Laird: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Strickland: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-06-30 · pass · 11-1
Member-level votes (13)
- Wahab: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Laird: yes
- Stern: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Allen: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Niello: no
- Valladares: other
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