Bill Text: CA SB48 | 2025-2026 | Regular Session | Chaptered
Bill Title: Educational equity: discrimination prevention coordinators.
Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4)
Status: (Passed) 2025-10-07 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 429, Statutes of 2025. [SB48 Detail]
Download: California-2025-SB48-Chaptered.html
Senate Bill
No. 48
CHAPTER 429
An act to add Sections 33803.2, 33803.3, 33803.4, and 33803.5 to the Education Code, relating to educational equity.
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Approved by
Governor
October 07, 2025.
Filed with
Secretary of State
October 07, 2025.
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LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST
SB 48, Gonzalez.
Educational equity: discrimination prevention coordinators.
Existing law states the policy of the State of California is to afford all persons in public schools, regardless of their disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, or any other specified characteristic, equal rights and opportunities in the educational institutions of the state. AB 715 of the 2025–26 Regular Session proposes to, among other things, (1) establish the Office of Civil Rights, under the administration of the Government Operations Agency, with the purpose of working directly with local educational agencies to prevent and address discrimination and bias, as specified, and (2) state the intent of the Legislature to enact future legislation to establish coordinators to be employed within the Office of Civil Rights to
prevent and address discrimination and bias.
This bill would require the Office of Civil Rights to employ a Religious Discrimination Prevention Coordinator, a Race and Ethnicity Discrimination Prevention Coordinator, a Gender Discrimination Prevention Coordinator, and an LGBTQ Discrimination Prevention Coordinator. The bill would require each of the coordinators to be appointed by the Governor and confirmed by the Senate.
This bill would make the operation of its provisions contingent upon the enactment of AB 715 of the 2025–26 Regular Session.
