---
type: "Bill"
title: "School or athletic team names: California Racial Mascots Act."
description: "Existing law establishes the California Racial Mascots Act, which prohibits public schools from using the term Redskins as a school or athletic team name, mascot, or nickname. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and implement a system of complaint processing, known as the Uniform Complaint Procedures, for specified educational programs."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20232024"
identifier: "AB 3074"
citation: "California AB 3074 (20232024)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["California Racial Mascots Act", "School or athletic team names"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Schiavo"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 25
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2024-02-16"
last_action: "2024-09-27"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7feedc3e-f5f9-4a39-94e2-9d0effce19f7"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3074"
source_hash: "4a860507e13783636a5f6cceb4317632e3c464afa237688dd24b5623cecfbde3"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California AB 3074 (20232024) — School or athletic team names: California Racial Mascots Act.

Existing law establishes the California Racial Mascots Act, which prohibits public schools from using the term Redskins as a school or athletic team name, mascot, or nickname. Existing law requires the Superintendent of Public Instruction to establish and implement a system of complaint processing, known as the Uniform Complaint Procedures, for specified educational programs.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/16/24 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3074&version=20230AB307499INT)
2. **03/18/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3074&version=20230AB307498AMD)
3. **04/09/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3074&version=20230AB307497AMD)
4. **04/16/24 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3074&version=20230AB307496AMD)
5. **09/27/24 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3074&version=20230AB307494CHP)
6. **AB3074** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3074)
7. **09/04/24 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202320240AB3074&version=20230AB307495ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading AB3074 Schiavo et al. By Umberg — **36–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Higher Education] — **5–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 3074 Schiavo Assembly Third Reading — **62–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **11–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Schiavo — primary (person)
- Alvarez — principal coauthor (person)
- Jackson — coauthor (person)
- Mike Fong — coauthor (person)
- Muratsuchi — coauthor (person)
- Ramos — author (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2024-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2024-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
- **2024-03-11** Referred to Coms. on ED. and HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-03-19** Re-referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-08** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (April 3). `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2024-04-09** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-10** Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-04-17** Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED. `referral-committee`
- **2024-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2024-05-08** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 8). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-05-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-05-20** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 62. Noes 0. Page 5320.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-05-21** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2024-05-29** Referred to Com. on ED. `referral-committee`
- **2024-06-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2024-06-24** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2024-08-15** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (August 15). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2024-08-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2024-08-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 36. Noes 1.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2024-08-30** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2024-09-11** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2024-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2024-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 665, Statutes of 2024. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7feedc3e-f5f9-4a39-94e2-9d0effce19f7`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).