CA AB2819

Requests the Ralph J. Bunche Center for African American Studies at UCLA to conduct a biennial study on racial, ethnic, gender, and LGBT diversity in board of directors and employees of U.S. high technology companies.

Study must include employee demographics by race, ethnicity, and gender; executive and board representation broken down by demographics; job categories by type; and evaluation of diversity recruitment and retention programs.

Requires creation of an advisory board with representatives from student groups, tech companies, diversity advocates, and STEM academics to meet every two months until 2021, then every six months until 2031, to develop diversity best practices.

University of California must post reports on its website and submit to the Legislature by January 1, 2021, and every two years thereafter until January 1, 2031.

Defines "high technology company" as publicly traded U.S. companies in the top 25 by annual revenue in software development or computational hardware, with a California location and more than 1,000 California employees; article repeals January 1, 2032.