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CA SB303

Bill

Status

Passed

10/1/2025

Primary Sponsor

Lola Smallwood-Cuevas

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Origin

Senate

2025-2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Protects employees from discrimination claims when they assess, test, admit, or acknowledge their own personal bias in good faith during employer-required or solicited bias mitigation training

  • Clarifies that employers conducting bias mitigation trainings are not engaging in unlawful discrimination simply by offering such programs

  • Defines "bias mitigation training" as education and activities designed to help employees understand, recognize, and acknowledge conscious and unconscious thought processes and their impacts

  • Requires bias mitigation training to include specific strategies such as bias assessments, analysis of test results, workshops, toolkits, and tracking of bias mitigation efforts

  • Adds Section 12940.2 to the Government Code under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act framework

Legislative Description

Employment: bias mitigation training: unlawful discrimination.

Last Action

Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 216, Statutes of 2025.

10/1/2025

Committee Referrals

Judiciary6/5/2025
Public Safety4/23/2025
Judiciary2/19/2025
Rules2/10/2025

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