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 Date Published: 02/19/2026 09:00 PM

SB1237:v99#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Revised
 June 09, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Senate Bill

No. 1237

Introduced by Senator Blakespear
(Coauthor: Assembly Member Kalra)

February 19, 2026

 An act to amend Sections 12907 and 12999 of the Government Code, relating to civil rights.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

SB 1237, as introduced, Blakespear.
 Civil Rights Department.

Existing law establishes the Civil Rights Department to administer and enforce various laws relating to civil rights, including the California Fair Employment and Housing Act. Existing law establishes the Civil Rights Enforcement and Litigation Fund to be administered by the department, and authorizes the department to use the moneys in the fund upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act to offset the costs of the department.

This bill would require the department to annually publish a report of the aggregate budgetary and enforcement information for the fund, as specified.

Existing law requires certain private employers to annually submit a pay data report to the department that includes, among other information, the number of employees by race, ethnicity, and sex, as specified, and,
 within each job category, for each combination of race, ethnicity, and sex, the median and mean hourly rate. Upon request from the Civil Rights Department, existing law requires a court to impose a civil penalty not to exceed $100 per employee upon any employer who fails to file the required report and not to exceed $200 per employee upon any employer for a subsequent failure to file the required report. Existing law requires these penalties to be payable to the fund described above.

This bill would increase the penalty for subsequent failures to file the report described above to an amount not to exceed $1,000 per employee.

Digest Key

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

Bill Text

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

SECTION 1.

 Section 12907 of the Government Code is amended to read:

12907.

 (a) The Civil Rights Enforcement and Litigation Fund is hereby established in the State Treasury, to be administered by the Civil Rights Department.

(b) The fund shall consist of any attorney’s fees and costs awarded by a court to the Civil Rights Department when the department is the prevailing party in a civil action brought under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act.

(c) Upon appropriation by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act, moneys in the fund may be used to offset the costs of the department.

(d) (1) The
 department shall annually publish a report of the aggregate budgetary and enforcement information for the fund, including, but not limited to, all of the following:

(A) The total amount of civil penalties assessed.

(B) The total amount of civil penalties collected.

(C) The total amount of civil penalties outstanding to be collected.

(D) The allocation or use of collected penalty revenues.

(2) The department may publish or combine the report required pursuant to paragraph (1) with any other annual report the department is authorized or required to publish by law.

SEC. 2.

 Section 12999 of the Government Code, as added by Section 2 of Chapter 760 of the Statutes of 2025, is amended to read:

12999.

 (a) (1) On or before the second Wednesday of May 2023, and on or before the second Wednesday of May of each year thereafter, a private employer that has 100 or more employees shall submit a pay data report to the department covering the prior calendar year, which, for purposes of this section, shall be referred to as the “Reporting Year.”

(2) On or before the second Wednesday of May 2023, and on or before the second Wednesday of May of each year thereafter, a private employer that has 100 or more employees hired through labor contractors within the prior calendar year shall submit a separate pay data report to the department covering the employees hired through labor contractors in the prior calendar year. The private
 employer shall also disclose on the pay data report the ownership names of all labor contractors used to supply employees. A la