Bill Commons

CA SB 303

enacted

Employment: bias mitigation training: unlawful discrimination.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

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Quick answers

Did CA SB 303 pass?

Yes. CA SB 303 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2025-10-01): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 216, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA SB 303 about?

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.

Who sponsors CA SB 303?

Smallwood-Cuevas is the primary sponsor of CA SB 303.

Description

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.

Introduced
2025-02-10
Latest action
2025-10-01 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 216, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Smallwood-Cuevasauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2025-10-01

    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 216, Statutes of 2025.

    became-law

  2. 2025-10-01

    Approved by the Governor.

    executive-signature

  3. 2025-09-09

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

    executive-receipt

  4. 2025-09-02

    Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2407.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

    amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable

  5. 2025-08-28

    In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  6. 2025-08-28

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2769.) Ordered to the Senate.

    passage,reading-1,reading-3

  7. 2025-07-10

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  8. 2025-07-09

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 8).

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  9. 2025-07-02

    From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  10. 2025-06-16

    June 24 hearing postponed by committee.

  11. 2025-06-05

    Referred to Com. on JUD.

    referral-committee

  12. 2025-05-28

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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  13. 2025-05-28

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 1306.) Ordered to the Assembly.

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  14. 2025-05-01

    Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.

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  15. 2025-04-30

    From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 944.) (April 29).

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  16. 2025-04-23

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 11. Noes 2. Page 834.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.

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  17. 2025-04-11

    Set for hearing April 29 in PUB. S. pending receipt.

  18. 2025-04-03

    Set for hearing April 22.

  19. 2025-04-01

    April 8 hearing postponed by committee.

  20. 2025-03-25

    Set for hearing April 8.

  21. 2025-02-19

    Referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S.

    referral-committee

  22. 2025-02-11

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 13.

  23. 2025-02-10

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

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Versions

  • 02/10/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-10Compare
  • 05/01/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-05-01Compare
  • 07/02/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-07-02Compare
  • 09/04/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-04Compare
  • 10/01/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-01Compare
  • SB303Compare
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Documents

Votes

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety]

    2025-04-22 · pass · 11-2

    Member-level votes (13)
    • Allen: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Valladares: no
    • Niello: no

  • Do pass as amended

    2025-04-29 · pass · 5-1

    Member-level votes (6)
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Seyarto: no

  • 3rd Reading SB303 Smallwood-Cuevas

    2025-05-28 · pass · 28-10

    Member-level votes (40)
    • McNerney: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Alvarado-Gil: no
    • Grove: no
    • Ochoa Bogh: no
    • Dahle: no
    • Niello: no
    • Strickland: no
    • Choi: no
    • Seyarto: no
    • Valladares: no
    • Jones: no
    • Limón: other
    • Reyes: other

  • Do pass.

    2025-07-08 · pass · 11-0

    Member-level votes (12)
    • Bryan: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Dixon: other

  • SB 303 Smallwood-Cuevas Senate Third Reading By Mark González

    2025-08-28 · pass · 72-0

    Member-level votes (79)
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Chen: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Ellis: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Hadwick: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Ta: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Macedo: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Lackey: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Gallagher: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Patterson: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Wallis: yes
    • Alvarez: other
    • Berman: other
    • Dixon: other
    • DeMaio: other
    • Valencia: other
    • Tangipa: other
    • Castillo: other

  • Unfinished Business SB303 Smallwood-Cuevas Concurrence

    2025-09-02 · pass · 36-0

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Cortese: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Reyes: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Jones: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Choi: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Niello: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Grove: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Valladares: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Dahle: other
    • Strickland: other
    • Alvarado-Gil: other
    • Ochoa Bogh: other

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