CA SB 303
enactedEmployment: bias mitigation training: unlawful discrimination.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper
Quick answers
Did CA SB 303 pass?
Yes. CA SB 303 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-01. 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
2025-02-10
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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2025-02-11
From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 13.
2025-02-19
Referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S.
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2025-03-25
Set for hearing April 8.
2025-04-01
April 8 hearing postponed by committee.
2025-04-03
Set for hearing April 22.
2025-04-11
Set for hearing April 29 in PUB. S. pending receipt.
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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2025-04-30
From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 944.) (April 29).
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2025-05-01
Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-05-28
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 1306.) Ordered to the Assembly.
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2025-05-28
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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2025-06-05
Referred to Com. on JUD.
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2025-06-16
June 24 hearing postponed by committee.
2025-07-02
From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
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2025-07-09
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 8).
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2025-07-10
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-08-28
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2769.) Ordered to the Senate.
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2025-08-28
In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
2025-09-02
Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2407.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
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2025-09-09
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
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2025-10-01
Approved by the Governor.
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2025-10-01
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 216, Statutes of 2025.
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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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