California legislation · 2025-2026 Regular Session
California SB1328: Public postsecondary education: Equity in Higher Education Act: campus contact.
Status: Chaptered, September 26, 2026
What the bill says
An act to amend Section 66271.2 of the Education Code, relating to public postsecondary education. public postsecondary education Public postsecondary education: Equity in Higher Education Act: campus contact. The Equity in Higher Education Act establishes the policy of the state to afford all persons, regardless of specified characteristics, including gender, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation, equal rights and opportunities in the postsecondary educational institutions of the state…
From the chaptered text, September 26, 2026:
An act to amend Section 66271.2 of the Education Code, relating to public postsecondary education. public postsecondary education Public postsecondary education: Equity in Higher Education Act: campus contact. The Equity in Higher Education Act establishes the policy of the state to afford all persons, regardless of specified characteristics, including gender, gender identity, gender expression, and sexual orientation, equal rights and opportunities in the postsecondary educational institutions of the state. The act requires the Trustees of the California State University and the governing board of a community colleges district, and requests the Regents of the University of California, to designate an employee at each of their respective campuses as a point of contact for the needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual, asexual, pansexual, transgender, gender-nonconforming, intersex, and two-spirit faculty, staff, and students. This bill would require the trustees and the governing board of a community college district, and would request the regents, to also designate an employee as a point of contact for the needs of the above-described faculty, staff, and students of a branch campus, satellite location, or site other than the main campus, as specified. The bill would define “branch campus,” “satellite location,” and “main campus” for this purpose. To the extent the bill would impose new duties on a community college district, the bill would impose a state-mandated local …