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California · 2025–26 Regular Session · Senate Bill

SB 303: Employment: bias mitigation training: unlawful discrimination.

Enacted 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

SB 303 is a senate bill introduced in the California Senate on February 10, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: Employment: bias mitigation training: unlawful discrimination. Primary sponsor: Lola Smallwood-Cuevas (D). Most recent recorded action (October 1, 2025): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 216, Statutes of 2025.

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Official summary

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

Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, prohibits various forms of employment and housing discrimination, including various types of discrimination because of national origin. Existing law empowers the Civil Rights Department to investigate and prosecute complaints alleging unlawful practices.

This bill would provide that an employee’s assessment, testing, admission, or acknowledgment of their own personal bias that was made in good faith and solicited or required as part of a bias mitigation training does not constitute unlawful discrimination, as prescribed.

Sponsors

Sponsors by party (alphabetical): Democratic 1

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
Lola Smallwood-CuevasPrimary sponsorDemocraticSenate28

“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. Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 216, Statutes of 2025.
  2. Approved by the Governor.
  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
  4. Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 36. Noes 0. Page 2407.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
  5. In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
  6. Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 72. Noes 0. Page 2769.) Ordered to the Senate.
  7. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
  8. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 8).
  9. From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
  10. June 24 hearing postponed by committee.
  11. Referred to Com. on JUD.
  12. In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

Sources

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