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type: "Bill"
title: "Discrimination: hairstyles."
description: "Existing law states the policy of the State of California to afford all persons in public schools, 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 the 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 defines race or ethnicity for these purposes."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "SB 188"
citation: "California SB 188 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Discrimination: hairstyles."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Mitchell"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2019-01-30"
last_action: "2019-07-03"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2214314a-1db2-4962-8c23-9bc05503d0a9"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB188"
source_hash: "70b2d3a4eb8b3bfb91779a92530d9684035caa7379e0de05b0e5bc0a162ee322"
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 SB 188 (20192020) — Discrimination: hairstyles.
Existing law states the policy of the State of California to afford all persons in public schools, 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 the 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 defines race or ethnicity for these purposes.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **01/30/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB188&version=20190SB18899INT)
2. **03/14/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB188&version=20190SB18898AMD)
3. **04/02/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB188&version=20190SB18897AMD)
4. **07/03/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB188&version=20190SB18895CHP)
5. **SB188** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB188)
6. **06/27/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200SB188&version=20190SB18896ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass. — **150** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **100** (pass) · lower
- SB 188 Mitchell Senate Third Reading By Kamlager-Dove — **690** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **70** (pass) · upper
- 3rd Reading SB188 Mitchell et al. — **370** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- Mitchell — primary (person)
- Bonta — coauthor (person)
- Caballero — coauthor (person)
- Cooper — coauthor (person)
- Hertzberg — coauthor (person)
- Kamlager-Dove — coauthor (person)
- McCarty — coauthor (person)
- Weber — coauthor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-01-30** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2019-01-31** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 2.
- **2019-02-06** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-03-12** Set for hearing March 26.
- **2019-03-14** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-26** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 438.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-03-29** Set for hearing April 8.
- **2019-04-02** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-08** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2`
- **2019-04-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-22** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 743.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-04-22** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2019-05-06** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-29** Coauthors revised.
- **2019-06-04** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (June 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-06-19** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (June 19). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-06-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-06-27** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 69. Noes 0. Page 2448.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-06-27** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2019-06-28** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
- **2019-07-03** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-07-03** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 58, Statutes of 2019.
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2214314a-1db2-4962-8c23-9bc05503d0a9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).