CaliforniaState agency officials: training on responding to hate: local agency officials: anti-hate speech training.
What it does
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.
More detail
Existing law requires an employer to include prevention of abusive conduct as a component of that training and education.
This bill would require, beginning on January 1, 2028, if a state agency provides any type of compensation, salary, or stipend to a state agency official of that agency, that all state agency officials of that agency receive training on responding to hate, as prescribed. The bill would define "state agency official" to mean a state elected official for that purpose. The bill would require at least one hour of training and education for a state agency official within the first 6 months of taking office or commencing employment, and every 2 years thereafter. The bill would authorize a state agency or an association of state agencies to offer one or more training courses, or sets of self-study materials with tests, to meet these requirements. The bill would authorize a state agency to develop its own training that meets the requirements or direct elected officials to complete a training developed by the department. The bill would require the department to develop or obtain an online training course on responding to hate and make the course available on its internet website.
Existing law requires local agency officials, as defined, to receive sexual harassment prevention training and education if the local agency provides any type of compensation, salary, or stipend to those officials. Existing law requires the training and education to include practical examples aimed at instructing the local agency official in the prevention of sexual harassment, discrimination, and retaliation.
This bill would additionally require, beginning on January 1, 2028, the above-described training and education to include for any elected local agency official, as a component of the training and education, anti-hate speech training, as described. The bill would authorize an elected local agency official to take a training developed for state agency officials pursuant to the bill to satisfy the anti-hate speech training requirement.
By imposing new requirements on local agencies, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
The California Constitution requires the state to reimburse local agencies and school districts for certain costs mandated by the state. Statutory provisions establish procedures for making that reimbursement.
This bill would provide that, if the Commission on State Mandates determines that the bill contains costs mandated by the state, reimbursement for those costs shall be made pursuant to the statutory provisions noted above.
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Looking ahead
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History
- 2026
- Sep 27Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 526, Statutes of 2026.Latest
- Sep 27Approved by the Governor Gavin Newsom.Became Law
- Sep 9Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.To Governor
- Aug 31
- Vote recorded AB 1578 Jackson Concurrence in Senate Amendments. Result: pass.Lower
- Aug 30Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 59. Noes 17. Page 6911.).Major
- Vote recorded 3rd Reading AB1578 Jackson et al. By Wiener. Result: pass.Upper
- Aug 30In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- Aug 30Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 10.).Passed Senate
- Aug 27Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Aug 26Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.Major
- Aug 24Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Aug 21Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.Major
- Aug 13Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Upper
- Aug 13From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 13).Minor
- Aug 3In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.Minor
- Vote recorded Placed on suspense file. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 23From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (June 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 17From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on G.O. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (June 17). Re-referred to Com. on G.O.Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governmental Organization]. Result: pass.Upper
- Jun 3Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and G.O.Minor
- May 27In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.Minor
- May 26Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 18. Page 5293.)Passed Assembly
- Vote recorded AB 1578 Jackson Assembly Third Reading. Result: pass.Lower
- May 22Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1578.)Major
- May 18Read second time. Ordered to third reading.Minor
- May 14From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 4.) (May 14).Minor
- Vote recorded Do pass. Result: pass.Lower
- May 6In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.Minor
- Apr 23From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 16. Noes 5.) (April 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.Minor
- Apr 22
- Vote recorded Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 16From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on G.O. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (April 15). Re-referred to Com. on G.O.Minor
- Apr 16(Pending re-refer to Com. on G.O.)Minor
- Apr 16Assembly Rule 56 suspended. (Page 4663.)
- Apr 15
- Vote recorded Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Governmental Organization]. Result: pass.Lower
- Apr 7Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV.Minor
- Apr 6From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended.Major
- Mar 9Referred to Coms. on L. GOV. and G.O.Minor
- Jan 13From printer. May be heard in committee February 12.
- Jan 12Read first time. To print.Introduced