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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Assembly Bill

AB 972: Postsecondary education: discrimination: sex.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

AB 972 is a assembly bill introduced in the California Assembly on February 20, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Postsecondary education: discrimination: sex. Primary sponsor: Lori Wilson (D). Most recent recorded action (May 28, 2025): Referred to Coms. on ED. and JUD.

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Legislative Counsel’s Digest (official, as of the latest version). Written by nonpartisan legislative staff; reproduced verbatim.

Existing law prohibits a person from being subjected to discrimination on the basis of specified characteristics, including, among others, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation in a program or activity conducted by a postsecondary educational institution that receives, or benefits from, state financial assistance or enrolls students who receive state student financial aid.

This bill would expressly include sex in the list of specified characteristics.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Lori WilsonPrimary sponsorDemocraticAssembly11

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. Referred to Coms. on ED. and JUD.
  2. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
  3. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 8. Page 1561.)
  4. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  5. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (May 6).
  6. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
  7. Read second time and amended.
  8. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 1.) (April 22).
  9. In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
  10. Referred to Coms. on HIGHER ED. and JUD.
  11. From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
  12. Read first time. To print.

Sources

  1. California Legislative Information — pubinfo database export
  2. Official bill page