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California 20252026

AB 1803

Employment: sexual harassment training and education: anti-hate speech training.

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Measure details

Jurisdiction
California
Session
20252026
Chamber
lower
Classification
bill
Subjects
Employment, anti-hatespeechtraining, sexualharassmenttrainingandeducation
Introduced / first action
2026-02-10 00:00:00

Source-supplied abstracts

The California Fair Employment and Housing Act makes specified employment practices unlawful, including the harassment of an employee directly by the employer or indirectly by agents of the employer with the employer's knowledge. Under existing law, the Civil Rights Department administers these provisions. Existing law requires a specified employer with 5 or more employees to, by January 1, 2021, provide at least 2 hours of classroom or other effective interactive training and education regarding sexual harassment to all supervisory employees and at least one hour of classroom or other effective interactive training and education regarding sexual harassment to all nonsupervisory employees in California and, after that date, once every 2 years. Existing law requires an employer to include prevention of abusive conduct as a component of that training and education. This bill would additionally require that, beginning January 1, 2028, the above-described training and education include, as a component of the training and education, anti-hate speech training, as specified.

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  1. Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 547, Statutes of 2026.

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  2. Approved by the Governor.

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  3. Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.

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  4. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 11. Page 6596.).

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  5. In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.

  6. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 7.).

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  7. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  8. Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.

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  9. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 13).

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  10. In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.

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  11. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  12. From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  13. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 0.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  14. Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD.

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  15. In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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  16. Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 57. Noes 10. Page 4905.)

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  17. Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  18. From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (April 22).

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  19. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  20. Read second time and amended.

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  21. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 2.) (April 7).

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  22. From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 18). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.

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  23. Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD.

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  24. From printer. May be heard in committee March 13.

  25. Read first time. To print.

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