CA AB 972
in committeePostsecondary education: discrimination: sex.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
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Quick answers
Did CA AB 972 pass?
Not yet. CA AB 972 is in committee and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2025-05-28): Referred to Coms. on ED. and JUD.
What is CA AB 972 about?
Existing law prohibits a person from being subjected to discrimination on the basis of specified characteristics, including, among others, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation in a program or activity conducted by a postsecondary educational institution that receives, or benefits from, state financial assistance or enrolls students who receive state student financial aid. This bill would expressly include sex in the list of specified characteristics.
Who sponsors CA AB 972?
Wilson is the primary sponsor of CA AB 972.
Description
Existing law prohibits a person from being subjected to discrimination on the basis of specified characteristics, including, among others, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation in a program or activity conducted by a postsecondary educational institution that receives, or benefits from, state financial assistance or enrolls students who receive state student financial aid. This bill would expressly include sex in the list of specified characteristics.
- Introduced
- 2025-04-23
- Latest action
- 2025-05-28 — Referred to Coms. on ED. and JUD.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Wilsonauthor
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
Newest first
2025-05-28
Referred to Coms. on ED. and JUD.
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2025-05-15
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-05-15
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 8. Page 1561.)
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2025-05-07
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-05-06
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (May 6).
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2025-04-28
Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
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2025-04-24
Read second time and amended.
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2025-04-23
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (April 22).
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2025-04-08
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-03-17
Referred to Coms. on HIGHER ED. and JUD.
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2025-02-21
From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2025-02-20
Read first time. To print.
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Votes
Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]
2025-04-22 · pass · 7-1
Member-level votes (10)
- Patel: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Fong: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- DeMaio: no
- Tangipa: other
- Jeff Gonzalez: other
Do pass.
2025-05-06 · pass · 9-2
Member-level votes (12)
- Harabedian: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Papan: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Sanchez: no
- Dixon: no
- Macedo: other
AB 972 Wilson Assembly Third Reading
2025-05-15 · pass · 58-8
Member-level votes (79)
- Alvarez: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Fong: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Bains: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Hart: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Patel: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Addis: yes
- Krell: yes
- Solache: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Soria: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Papan: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Ward: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Berman: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Davies: yes
- Haney: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Lee: yes
- Hoover: no
- Tangipa: no
- Sanchez: no
- DeMaio: no
- Gallagher: no
- Hadwick: no
- Dixon: no
- Patterson: no
- Chen: other
- Alanis: other
- Flora: other
- Ta: other
- Wallis: other
- Arambula: other
- Macedo: other
- Lackey: other
- Jeff Gonzalez: other
- Ellis: other
- Quirk-Silva: other
- Castillo: other
- Stefani: other
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