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type: "Bill"
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title: "Educational equity: discrimination: antisemitism prevention."
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description: "(1) Existing law states the policy of the State of California is 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. Existing law prohibits the governing board of a school district, a county board of education, or the governing body of a charter school from adopting or approving the use of any textbook, instructional material, supplemental instructional material, or curriculum if its use would subject a pupil to unlawful discrimination, as specified."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20252026"
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identifier: "AB 715"
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citation: "California AB 715 (20252026)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Educationalequity", "antisemitismprevention", "discrimination"]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Zbur"]
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version_count: 7
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action_count: 33
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vote_count: 7
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first_action: "2025-02-14"
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last_action: "2025-10-07"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ce696d24-a80d-4e55-9de7-4b1b0fc68794"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB715"
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source_hash: "17f66f14676c80a851249f50ba9c18603e3dda047ee6a4588115acad9b1b8cc2"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 715 (20252026) — Educational equity: discrimination: antisemitism prevention.
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(1) Existing law states the policy of the State of California is 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. Existing law prohibits the governing board of a school district, a county board of education, or the governing body of a charter school from adopting or approving the use of any textbook, instructional material, supplemental instructional material, or curriculum if its use would subject a pupil to unlawful discrimination, as specified.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/14/25 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB715&version=20250AB71599INT)
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2. **05/12/25 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB715&version=20250AB71598AMD)
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3. **07/01/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB715&version=20250AB71597AMD)
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4. **09/09/25 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB715&version=20250AB71596AMD)
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5. **10/07/25 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB715&version=20250AB71594CHP)
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6. **AB715** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB715)
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7. **09/16/25 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB715&version=20250AB71595ENR)
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## Votes
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- Do pass — **4–1** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **6–0** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass. — **14–0** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–0** (pass) · lower
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- AB 715 ZBUR Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **71–0** (pass) · lower
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- 2nd Reading AB715 Zbur et al. By Wiener — **35–0** (pass) · upper
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- AB 715 Zbur Assembly Third Reading — **68–0** (pass) · lower
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## Sponsors
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- Zbur — primary (person)
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- Addis — author (person)
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- Fong — principal coauthor (person)
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- Gabriel — principal coauthor (person)
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- Gonzalez — principal coauthor (person)
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- Weber Pierson — principal coauthor (person)
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- Wiener — principal coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2025-02-14** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2025-02-15** From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
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- **2025-03-03** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-12** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-05-12** Re-referred to Com. on ED. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-12** Joint Rules 61 and 62(a) suspended.
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- **2025-05-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (May 14). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-21** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-05-21** Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 1627.)
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- **2025-05-23** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-05-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 68. Noes 0. Page 1773.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-05-29** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2025-06-11** Referred to Coms. on ED. and JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-07-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-09-09** Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Ayes 28. Noes 8. Page 2568.)
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- **2025-09-09** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on ED. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
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- **2025-09-09** Joint Rules 61 and 62(a) suspended. (Ayes 30. Noes 9. Page 2731.)
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- **2025-09-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (September 10). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
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- **2025-09-11** Withdrawn from committee.
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- **2025-09-11** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
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- **2025-09-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (September 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-09-11** Assembly suspended Joint Rule 62(a). (Page 3339.)
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- **2025-09-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
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- **2025-09-12** Senate Rule 29 suspended. (Page 2961.)
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- **2025-09-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 0. Page 2984.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
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- **2025-09-12** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
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- **2025-09-12** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Page 3435.)
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- **2025-09-13** Joint Rules 61(a)(14) and 51(a)(4) suspended. (Ayes 59. Noes 20. Page 3413.)
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- **2025-09-13** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 3436.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
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- **2025-09-24** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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- **2025-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2025-10-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 428, Statutes of 2025. `became-law`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ce696d24-a80d-4e55-9de7-4b1b0fc68794`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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