republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20172018/sb-183.md

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Bill	Educational equity: immigration status.	Existing law, the Equity in Higher Education Act, states the policy of the State of California to afford all persons, 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 postsecondary educational institutions of the state, and states that the purpose of related existing law is to prohibit acts that are contrary to that policy and to provide remedies therefor. Existing law prohibits a person from being subjected to discrimination on those bases and states that each characteristic includes a perception that the person has that characteristic or that the person is associated with a person who has, or is perceived to have, that characteristic.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20172018	SB 183	California SB 183 (20172018)	bill	Educational equity: immigration status.	enacted	Lara	8	33	8	2017-01-24	2018-09-26	openstates	ocd-bill/47767d5b-b392-4237-a501-21d43d7212e4	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB183	509be0364a4f8b79fd4d0be0b9fcdd30f76fa85a80684ed2683c96023902f7eb	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 183 (20172018) — Educational equity: immigration status.

Existing law, the Equity in Higher Education Act, states the policy of the State of California to afford all persons, 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 postsecondary educational institutions of the state, and states that the purpose of related existing law is to prohibit acts that are contrary to that policy and to provide remedies therefor. Existing law prohibits a person from being subjected to discrimination on those bases and states that each characteristic includes a perception that the person has that characteristic or that the person is associated with a person who has, or is perceived to have, that characteristic.

Version chain

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

1. 01/24/17 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 01/22/18 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/06/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/24/18 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/08/17 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/26/18 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. SB183 (committee substitute) — source
8. 09/04/18 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 8–1 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB183 Lara et al. Concurrence — 29–8 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• SB 183 Lara Senate Third Reading By ARAMBULA Amendment Set #1 — 50–22 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading SB183 Lara et al. — 28–7 (pass) · upper
• SB 183 Lara Senate Third Reading By ARAMBULA — 57–22 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Lara — primary (person)
• Monning — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2017-01-24 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2017-01-25 From printer. May be acted upon on or after February 24.
• 2017-02-02 Referred to Com. on N.R. & W. referral-committee
• 2017-09-08 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on N.R. & W. reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1
• 2017-09-11 Withdrawn from committee.
• 2017-09-11 Re-referred to Com. on RLS. referral-committee
• 2018-01-03 Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2018-01-04 Set for hearing January 9.
• 2018-01-09 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 4006.) (January 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-01-10 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-01-22 Read third time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-01-22 Ordered to second reading.
• 2018-01-23 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-01-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 7. Page 4115.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-01-30 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2018-06-14 Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2018-06-26 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee
• 2018-07-05 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 8. Noes 1.) (July 3). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2018-08-06 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2
• 2018-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-07 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. referral-committee
• 2018-08-15 August 15 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2018-08-16 Joint Rule 62(a) suspended.
• 2018-08-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 16). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2018-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2018-08-24 Read third time and amended. (Ayes 50. Noes 22. Page 6544.) amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2018-08-24 Ordered to third reading.
• 2018-08-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 57. Noes 22. Page 6713.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2018-08-28 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2018-08-29 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 5933.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2018-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2018-09-26 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2018-09-26 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 779, Statutes of 2018.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/47767d5b-b392-4237-a501-21d43d7212e4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).