republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20252026/sb-303.md

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Bill	Employment: bias mitigation training: unlawful discrimination.	Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, prohibits various forms of employment and housing discrimination, including various types of discrimination because of national origin. Existing law empowers the Civil Rights Department to investigate and prosecute complaints alleging unlawful practices.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20252026	SB 303	California SB 303 (20252026)	bill	Employment biasmitigationtraining unlawfuldiscrimination	enacted	Smallwood-Cuevas	6	23	6	2025-02-10	2025-10-01	openstates	ocd-bill/42edc80b-015e-4e66-8ab7-49648b55c9e9	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260SB303	aa58e336aa5d98fd3dfc8894b587fb0c388df8dbe07f65637b7682948cbfe071	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 303 (20252026) — Employment: bias mitigation training: unlawful discrimination.

Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, prohibits various forms of employment and housing discrimination, including various types of discrimination because of national origin. Existing law empowers the Civil Rights Department to investigate and prosecute complaints alleging unlawful practices.

Version chain

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

1. 02/10/25 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 05/01/25 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/02/25 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/01/25 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB303 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/04/25 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Public Safety] — 11–2 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading SB303 Smallwood-Cuevas — 28–10 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB303 Smallwood-Cuevas Concurrence — 36–0 (pass) · upper
• SB 303 Smallwood-Cuevas Senate Third Reading By Mark González — 72–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 11–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Smallwood-Cuevas — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-10 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2025-02-11 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 13.
• 2025-02-19 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2025-03-25 Set for hearing April 8.
• 2025-04-01 April 8 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2025-04-03 Set for hearing April 22.
• 2025-04-11 Set for hearing April 29 in PUB. S. pending receipt.
• 2025-04-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 11. Noes 2. Page 834.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee
• 2025-04-30 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 944.) (April 29). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-05-01 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-05-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 1306.) Ordered to the Assembly. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-05-28 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2025-06-05 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2025-06-16 June 24 hearing postponed by committee.
• 2025-07-02 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
• 2025-07-09 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 8). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-07-10 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-1, reading-2
• 2025-08-28 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2769.) Ordered to the Senate. passage, reading-1, reading-3
• 2025-08-28 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2025-09-02 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2407.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2025-09-09 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
• 2025-10-01 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2025-10-01 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 216, Statutes of 2025. became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/42edc80b-015e-4e66-8ab7-49648b55c9e9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).