California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California AB1578: State agency officials: training on responding to hate: local agency officials: anti-hate speech training.
Status: Chaptered, September 27, 2026
What the bill says
An act to amend Section 53237.1 of, and to add Section 12950.4 to, the Government Code, relating to public officials. public officials State agency officials: training on responding to hate: local agency officials: anti-hate speech training. 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…
From the chaptered text, September 27, 2026:
An act to amend Section 53237.1 of, and to add Section 12950.4 to, the Government Code, relating to public officials. public officials State agency officials: training on responding to hate: local agency officials: anti-hate speech training. 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. 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 …