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Yes: 199 • No: 0
CaliforniaSB 8482025-2026 Regular SessionSenateWALLET
Sex equity in education: Title IX.
Sponsored By: Sasha Renée Pérez (Democratic)
Signed by Governor
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Bill Overview
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7 provisions identified: 5 benefits, 0 costs, 2 mixed.
No school jobs after serious crimes
Schools cannot hire or keep certificated staff who have violent or serious felony convictions or listed sex offenses. When the state Justice Department notifies a district, temporary or substitute teachers go on unpaid leave and are terminated upon written notice, unless DOJ withdraws it. Limited rehabilitation exceptions apply. The law also updates what counts as a sex offense, including listed crimes, attempts, out‑of‑state equivalents, registration‑required convictions, and certain commitments.
Limits on staff contact and prevention lessons
Beginning July 1, 2026, schools must set clear rules on staff‑student boundaries, including limits on texts, social media, and out‑of‑school contact. Policies must also support good supervision of spaces. By July 1, 2026, the state posts age‑appropriate abuse and trafficking prevention resources. Trained certificated staff who do not otherwise see those students regularly must teach the lessons, and parents can opt out.
Tougher hiring checks for school staff
Applicants for certificated and noncertificated jobs must list every prior school employer, and hiring schools must contact them about credible complaints, substantiated investigations, or discipline. Schools cannot use deals that hide egregious misconduct, and they cannot erase substantiated findings from personnel files unless the case was found false or not credible. If funded, by July 1, 2027 the state will run a secure system of substantiated misconduct records; schools must check it before hiring and report hires, separations, and investigation results. The Credentials Committee can open a review based on those records. Only substantiated findings are kept; unfounded or inconclusive cases must be removed.
Stronger school safety plans and drills
School safety plans now add protections against child abuse and sex offenses and must work for students with disabilities. Plans must include sudden cardiac arrest response, opioid‑overdose protocols for grades 7–12, and, in high fire‑hazard zones with over 50 students, refuge shelters and early‑evacuation plans starting in 2026–27. Active‑shooter drills must be trauma‑informed and may not use realistic or violent simulations. Starting July 1, 2025, districts must contact students within five days of an emergency and provide in‑person or remote instruction within 10 instructional days. Schools may notify families of violent crimes within two business days after verification, and must add procedures by March 1, 2026 to notify when immigration enforcement is confirmed on campus. Tactical response details may be developed with law enforcement and approved in closed session.
Yearly abuse training for schools and childcare
Beginning July 1, 2025, schools must give annual training on spotting and reporting child abuse and on prevention. New hires must finish training within six weeks; this temporary rule ends January 1, 2027. Starting July 1, 2026, private schools and volunteers who are mandated reporters must train yearly, and volunteers must show proof within six weeks. Childcare license applicants, administrators, and staff must also complete training (within 90 days of hire) and renew every two years. HR staff at businesses that employ minors and adults who supervise minors must get training, and all employers must give mandated reporters the required written notice. The law reminds everyone that failing to report is a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail or a $1,000 fine, or both.
More adults must report child abuse
The law expands who is a mandated reporter. School employees, board members, contractors, and youth‑program leaders must report suspected child abuse. Talent agents, managers, and coaches who serve minors are also included. Most other volunteers are no longer mandated reporters unless they are in listed groups, but they are encouraged to train and report. Not having training is not an excuse for failing to report.
Tech services child-abuse reporting rules
If you run an electronic communications or remote computing service, following the federal rule (18 U.S.C. 2258A) meets California’s reporting law. Employers of commercial computer technicians can set an internal reporting path to a designated employee. A technician who reports to that person is treated as having met their reporting duty and keeps mandated‑reporter protections.
Sponsors & Cosponsors
Sponsor
Sasha Renée Pérez
Democratic • Senate
Cosponsors
Dawn Addis
Democratic • House
Juan Alanis
Republican • House
Josh Hoover
Republican • House
Tom Lackey
Republican • House
Josh Lowenthal
Democratic • House
Al Muratsuchi
Democratic • House
Roll Call Votes
Senate vote • 9/13/2025
Item 138 — Senate SFLOOR
Yes: 37 • No: 0
House vote • 9/12/2025
Item 71 — Assembly AFLOOR
Yes: 71 • No: 0
legislature vote • 8/29/2025
Vote in CX25
Yes: 11 • No: 0
legislature vote • 7/15/2025
Vote in CX18
Yes: 9 • No: 0
legislature vote • 7/2/2025
Vote in CX03
Yes: 9 • No: 0
Senate vote • 6/2/2025
Item 227 — Senate SFLOOR
Yes: 38 • No: 0
legislature vote • 5/23/2025
Vote in CS61
Yes: 6 • No: 0
legislature vote • 5/19/2025
Vote in CS61
Yes: 5 • No: 0
legislature vote • 4/29/2025
Vote in CS72
Yes: 6 • No: 0
legislature vote • 4/23/2025
Vote in CS44
Yes: 7 • No: 0
Actions Timeline
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 460, Statutes of 2025.
10/7/2025SenateApproved by the Governor.
10/7/2025legislatureEnrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
9/23/2025legislatureAssembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 3029.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
9/13/2025SenateIn Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
9/12/2025SenateRead third time. Passed. (Ayes 71. Noes 0. Page 3408.) Ordered to the Senate.
9/12/2025HouseRead third time and amended.
9/5/2025HouseAssembly Rule 69(b)(1) suspended.
9/5/2025HouseOrdered to third reading.
9/5/2025HouseRead second time. Ordered to third reading.
9/3/2025HouseRead second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
9/2/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (August 29).
8/29/2025HouseAugust 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
8/20/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
7/16/2025HouseCoauthors revised.
7/16/2025HouseRead second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S.
7/7/2025HouseFrom committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on PUB. S. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (July 2).
7/3/2025HouseReferred to Coms. on ED. and PUB. S.
6/9/2025HouseIn Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
6/3/2025HouseRead third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 1377.) Ordered to the Assembly.
6/2/2025SenateRead second time. Ordered to third reading.
5/27/2025SenateRead second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.
5/23/2025SenateFrom committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 1215.) (May 23).
5/23/2025SenateSet for hearing May 23.
5/20/2025SenateMay 19 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
5/19/2025Senate
Bill Text
Chaptered
10/7/2025
Enrolled
9/18/2025
Amended Assembly
9/5/2025
Amended Assembly
9/2/2025
Amended Assembly
7/7/2025
Amended Senate
5/23/2025
Amended Senate
5/1/2025
Amended Senate
3/26/2025
Introduced
2/21/2025