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CA SB303
Bill
Status
10/1/2025
Primary Sponsor
Lola Smallwood-Cuevas
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AI Summary
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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
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Clarifies that employers conducting bias mitigation trainings are not engaging in unlawful discrimination simply by offering such programs
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Defines "bias mitigation training" as education and activities designed to help employees understand, recognize, and acknowledge conscious and unconscious thought processes and their impacts
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Requires bias mitigation training to include specific strategies such as bias assessments, analysis of test results, workshops, toolkits, and tracking of bias mitigation efforts
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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