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Bill	Courts: attorneys: implicit bias: training.	(1) Existing law authorizes the Judicial Council to provide by rule of court for racial, ethnic, and gender bias, and sexual harassment training and training for any other bias based on sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, ethnic group identification, age, mental disability, physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, or sexual orientation for judges, commissioners, and referees.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20192020	AB 242	California AB 242 (20192020)	bill	Courts: attorneys: implicit bias: training.	enacted	Kamlager-Dove	10	32	6	2019-01-18	2019-10-02	openstates	ocd-bill/2479803a-b315-42bb-8f10-4a16298092a8	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB242	9857a6b7f7761c38f5b21f78761c8b6914d64ce229753db88b69e6f40a5db426	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 242 (20192020) — Courts: attorneys: implicit bias: training.

(1) Existing law authorizes the Judicial Council to provide by rule of court for racial, ethnic, and gender bias, and sexual harassment training and training for any other bias based on sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, ethnic group identification, age, mental disability, physical disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, or sexual orientation for judges, commissioners, and referees.

Version chain

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

1. 01/18/19 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/25/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/12/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/24/19 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/27/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/05/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/06/19 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 10/02/19 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
9. AB242 (committee substitute) — source
10. 09/17/19 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• AB 242 Kamlager-Dove Assembly Third Reading — 64–3 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 8–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 242 Kamlager-Dove Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 69–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB242 Kamlager-Dove et al. By Jackson — 34–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 14–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Kamlager-Dove — primary (person)
• Levine — coauthor (person)
• Mitchell — coauthor (person)
• Wiener — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2019-01-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2019-01-22 From printer. May be heard in committee February 21.
• 2019-03-25 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-03-25 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-03-26 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-04-01 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-04-12 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-22 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-04-23 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 23). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-04-24 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2019-05-08 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2019-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-05-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 64. Noes 3. Page 1626.) passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-05-14 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2019-05-22 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2019-06-05 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-06-06 In committee: Set, second hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2019-06-26 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (June 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction
• 2019-06-27 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2019-08-12 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
• 2019-08-13 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-05 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-06 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2019-09-11 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 34. Noes 2. Page 2819.). passage, reading-3, reading-1
• 2019-09-11 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2019-09-12 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 3503.). amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2019-09-24 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
• 2019-10-02 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2019-10-02 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 418, Statutes of 2019.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2479803a-b315-42bb-8f10-4a16298092a8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).