SB 303 — Bias Mitigation Training

The Civil Rights Department (CRD) enforces the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), which prohibits employment and housing discrimination based on protected characteristics. CRD investigates complaints, pursues enforcement actions, and seeks to eliminate unlawful practices.

Public and private employers provide bias mitigation or elimination training in order to educate employees on understanding, recognizing, and acknowledging bias, including employees’ own personal biases, and their impact in the workplace. SB 303 provides that an employee’s assessment, testing, admission, or acknowledgment of their own personal biases that is made in good faith and solicited or required as part of a bias mitigation training does not, by itself, constitute unlawful discrimination.

(SB 303 adds Section 12940.2 to the Government Code.)