Akilah Weber
- Democratic
- Assemblymember
- District 79
Author
Existing law, the Unruh Civil Rights Act, provides that all persons within the jurisdiction of this state are entitled to full and equal accommodations in all business establishments regardless of their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sexual orientation, citizenship, primary language, or immigration status. Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, makes it unlawful to engage in specified discriminatory employment practices based on certain protected characteristics, including race, unless based on a bona fide occupational qualification or applicable security regulations, and prohibits housing discrimination based on specified personal characteristics, including race. Existing law states the policy of the State of California 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, and to prohibit acts that are contrary to that policy and to provide remedies therefor. Existing law prohibits discrimination because of a perception that a person has one of those protected characteristics or is associated with a person who has, or is perceived to have, any of those characteristics. The California Fair Employment and Housing Act and public school policy define the term race for purposes of those provisions to include traits historically associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles, as defined. This bill would remove the term "historically" from the definitions of race, thus defining race to include traits associated with race, including, but not limited to, hair texture and protective hairstyles, as defined, and would add those definitions for "race" and "protective hairstyle" to the Unruh Civil Rights Act. This bill would declare that its provisions are declaratory of existing law. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 51 of the Civil Code proposed by SB 1137 to be operative only if this bill and SB 1137 are enacted and this bill is enacted last. This bill would incorporate additional changes to Section 12926 of the Government Code proposed by SB 1022 and SB 1137 to be operative only if this bill and either or both of those bills are enacted and this bill is enacted last.
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 619, Statutes of 2024.
Approved by the Governor.
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
Assembly Rule 77 suspended.
Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0.).
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0.).
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (June 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD.
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 5079.)
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (April 24).
Coauthors revised.
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 1.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended.
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
From printer. May be heard in committee February 10.
Read first time. To print.
| Bill Text Versions | Format |
|---|---|
| AB1815 | HTML |
| 01/10/24 - Introduced | |
| 03/21/24 - Amended Assembly | |
| 05/23/24 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/14/24 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/21/24 - Amended Senate | |
| 08/29/24 - Enrolled | |
| 09/26/24 - Chaptered |
| Document | Format |
|---|---|
| 03/29/24- Assembly Judiciary | |
| 04/22/24- Assembly Appropriations | |
| 04/26/24- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS | |
| 05/31/24- Senate Judiciary | |
| 06/18/24- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 08/16/24- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 08/22/24- Sen. Floor Analyses | |
| 08/27/24- ASSEMBLY FLOOR ANALYSIS |
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