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 and subordinate judicial officers.
California SB 1356 (20232024) — Judiciary: training: gender bias.
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 and subordinate judicial officers.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
SB 1356 Wahab Senate Third Reading By Bauer-Kahan — 67–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 9–0 (pass) · upper
3rd Reading — 32–0 (pass) · upper
Do pass. — 11–0 (pass) · lower
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
Wahab — primary (person)
Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
Bryan — coauthor (person)
Calderon — coauthor (person)
Connolly — coauthor (person)
Kalra — coauthor (person)
Pacheco — coauthor (person)
Reyes — coauthor (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2024-02-16 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
2024-02-20 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 18.
2024-02-29 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2024-04-03 Set for hearing April 16.
2024-04-03 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2024-04-10 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee
2024-04-17 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0. Page 3636.) (April 16). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2024-05-03 Set for hearing May 13.
2024-05-13 From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage, reading-2
2024-05-14 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2024-05-20 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 32. Noes 0. Page 4021.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-05-21 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
2024-05-28 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2024-06-11 Coauthors revised.
2024-06-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
2024-06-26 June 26 hearing postponed by committee.
2024-07-02 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
2024-07-03 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
2024-08-12 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 6278.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
2024-08-12 In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
2024-08-15 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:45 a.m.
2024-08-19 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2024-08-19 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 187, Statutes of 2024. became-law
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/00119b60-292e-4152-acd5-b5cee7f9f0ce. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).