Bill Text: CA SB857 | 2023-2024 | Regular Session | Introduced

California Senate Bill 857

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Bill Title: Advisory task force: LGBTQ+ pupil needs.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 14-0)

Status: (Passed) 2023-09-23 - Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 228, Statutes of 2023. [SB857 Detail]

Download: California-2023-SB857-Introduced.html

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE— 2023–2024 REGULAR SESSION

Senate Bill

No. 857

Introduced by Senator Laird

February 17, 2023

An act to amend Section 200 of the Education Code, relating to educational equity.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 857, as introduced, Laird. Educational equity.

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 states that the purpose of related existing law is to prohibit acts that are contrary to that policy and to provide remedies therefor.

This bill would make nonsubstantive changes to that provision.

Vote: MAJORITY Appropriation: NO Fiscal Committee: NO Local Program: NO

The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION 1.

Section 200 of the Education Code is amended to read:

200.

It is 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 characteristic that is contained in the definition of hate crimes set forth in Section 422.55 of the Penal Code, including immigration status, equal ~~rights,~~ rights and opportunities in the educational institutions of the state. The purpose of this chapter is to prohibit acts that are contrary to that policy and to provide remedies ~~therefor.~~ for the commission of those prohibited acts.