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CA SB 48

enacted

Educational equity: discrimination prevention coordinators.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

Description

Existing law states the policy of the State of California is to afford all persons in public schools, regardless of their disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other specified characteristic, equal rights and opportunities in the educational institutions of the state. AB 715 of the 2025–26 Regular Session proposes to, among other things, (1) establish the Office of Civil Rights, under the administration of the Government Operations Agency, with the purpose of working directly with local educational agencies to prevent and address discrimination and bias, as specified, and (2) state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to establish coordinators to be employed within the Office of Civil Rights to prevent and address discrimination and bias. This bill would require the Office of Civil Rights to employ a Religious Discrimination Prevention Coordinator, a Race and Ethnicity Discrimination Prevention Coordinator, a Gender Discrimination Prevention Coordinator, and an LGBTQ Discrimination Prevention Coordinator. The bill would require each of the coordinators to be appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate. This bill would make the operation of its provisions contingent upon the enactment of AB 715 of the 2025–26 Regular Session.

Introduced
2024-12-16
Status date
—
Latest action
2025-10-07 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 429, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Gonzalezauthor
  • Weber Piersonauthor
  • Fongauthor
  • Wardauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2024-12-16

    Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

    introduction,referral-committee

  2. 2024-12-17

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 16.

  3. 2025-01-06

    Read first time.

    reading-1

  4. 2025-01-29

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

    referral-committee

  5. 2025-03-03

    Set for hearing March 19.

  6. 2025-03-03

    March 19 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.

  7. 2025-03-19

    Set for hearing April 2.

  8. 2025-03-24

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

    amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee

  9. 2025-04-02

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 6. Noes 1. Page 633.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.

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  10. 2025-04-03

    Withdrawn from committee.

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  11. 2025-04-03

    Re-referred to Com. on RLS.

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  12. 2025-04-09

    Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  13. 2025-04-10

    Set for hearing April 29.

  14. 2025-04-23

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

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  15. 2025-04-30

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1. Page 938.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  16. 2025-05-02

    Set for hearing May 12.

  17. 2025-05-12

    May 12 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  18. 2025-05-16

    Set for hearing May 23.

  19. 2025-05-23

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1189.) (May 23).

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  20. 2025-05-23

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  21. 2025-06-02

    Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. (Ayes 29. Noes 7. Page 1361.) Ordered to the Assembly.

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  22. 2025-06-03

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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  23. 2025-06-09

    Referred to Coms. on ED. and JUD.

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  24. 2025-07-03

    Coauthors revised.

  25. 2025-07-03

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  26. 2025-07-09

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

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  27. 2025-07-14

    July 15 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.

  28. 2025-09-09

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

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  29. 2025-09-10

    Re-referred to Com. on ED. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.

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  30. 2025-09-10

    Joint Rule 61(a) suspended. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 3190.)

  31. 2025-09-11

    Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.

  32. 2025-09-12

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) .

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  33. 2025-09-12

    Assembly Rule 63 suspended.

  34. 2025-09-13

    Joint Rule 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3414.)

  35. 2025-09-13

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 55. Noes 3. Page 3437.) Ordered to the Senate.

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  36. 2025-09-13

    In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  37. 2025-09-13

    Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 27. Noes 5. Page 3048.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

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  38. 2025-09-23

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

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  39. 2025-10-07

    Approved by the Governor.

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  40. 2025-10-07

    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 429, Statutes of 2025.

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Versions

  • 12/16/24 - Introduced — 2024-12-16Compare
  • 03/24/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-03-24Compare
  • 04/23/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-04-23Compare
  • 07/09/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-07-09Compare
  • 09/09/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-09-09Compare
  • 09/17/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-17Compare
  • 10/07/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-07Compare
  • SB48Compare
  • (document, no version)Compare

Documents

Votes

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

    2025-04-02 · pass · 6-1

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Cortese: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Choi: no

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

    2025-04-29 · pass · 11-1

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

  • Placed on suspense file

    2025-05-12 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Wahab: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Dahle: yes
    • Caballero: yes

  • Do pass

    2025-05-23 · pass · 5-1

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Caballero: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Seyarto: no
    • Dahle: other

  • 3rd Reading SB48 Gonzalez et al. Urgency Clause

    2025-06-02 · pass · 29-7

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

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]

    2025-07-02 · pass · 7-2

    Member-level votes (9)
    • Addis: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Bonta: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Hoover: no
    • Castillo: no

  • Do pass.

    2025-09-12 · pass · 6-0

    Member-level votes (9)
    • Patel: yes
    • Hoover: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Muratsuchi: other
    • Bonta: other
    • Garcia: other

  • W/O REF. TO FILE

    2025-09-13 · pass · 27-5

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

  • SB 48 Gonzalez Senate Third Reading By FONG

    2025-09-13 · pass · 55-3

    Member-level votes (80)
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Dixon: yes
    • Quirk-Silva: yes
    • Gipson: yes
    • Rogers: yes
    • Addis: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Haney: yes
    • Hart: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Wilson: yes
    • Carrillo: yes
    • Bains: yes
    • Ransom: yes
    • Soria: yes
    • Michelle Rodriguez: yes
    • Berman: yes
    • Valencia: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Celeste Rodriguez: yes
    • Connolly: yes
    • Schultz: yes
    • Bauer-Kahan: yes
    • Bennett: yes
    • Papan: yes
    • Schiavo: yes
    • Ávila Farías: yes
    • Aguiar-Curry: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Castillo: yes
    • Alanis: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Petrie-Norris: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Sanchez: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Johnson: no
    • Gallagher: no
    • DeMaio: no
    • Elhawary: other
    • Arambula: other
    • Bonta: other
    • Jeff Gonzalez: other
    • Lee: other
    • Wallis: other
    • Patterson: other
    • Ta: other
    • Caloza: other
    • Hoover: other
    • Ortega: other
    • Solache: other
    • Macedo: other
    • Ellis: other
    • Davies: other
    • Muratsuchi: other
    • Hadwick: other
    • Tangipa: other
    • Lackey: other
    • Kalra: other
    • Chen: other
    • Garcia: other

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