Bill Commons

CA AB 972

in committee

Postsecondary education: discrimination: sex.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

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
Status date
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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

  1. 2025-02-20

    Read first time. To print.

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  2. 2025-02-21

    From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.

  3. 2025-03-17

    Referred to Coms. on HIGHER ED. and JUD.

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  4. 2025-04-08

    In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.

  5. 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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  6. 2025-04-24

    Read second time and amended.

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  7. 2025-04-28

    Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  8. 2025-05-06

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (May 6).

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  9. 2025-05-07

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  10. 2025-05-15

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 8. Page 1561.)

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  11. 2025-05-15

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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  12. 2025-05-28

    Referred to Coms. on ED. and JUD.

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Versions

Documents

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

Related bills

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http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB972

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