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 04/27/26 - Amended Assembly
 04/16/26 - Amended Assembly
 02/20/26 - Introduced

 AB-2615 Educational equity: discrimination.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 05/28/2026 01:00 PM

AB2615:v96#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
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 Assembly
 May 28, 2026

 Amended
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 Assembly
 April 27, 2026

 Amended
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 Assembly
 April 16, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 2615

Introduced by Assembly Members Zbur and Addis

February 20, 2026

 An act to amend Sections 262.3, 51500, 51501, and 60151 of the Education Code, relating to educational equity.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2615, as amended, Zbur.
 Educational equity: discrimination.

(1) Existing law states the policy of the State of California is 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. Existing law requires teacher instruction and instructional materials, including materials adopted by the State Board of Education and any governing body, to be factually accurate, align with the adopted curriculum and standards, and be consistent with accepted standards of professional responsibility, rather than advocacy, personal opinion, bias, or partisanship.

This bill would revise and recast the above-described requirement on teacher instruction and instructional
 materials by, among other things, deleting the requirement that teacher instruction and instructional materials be consistent with accepted standards of professional responsibility.

(2) Existing law authorizes a person to file a complaint of unlawful discrimination with a local educational agency using the uniform complaint process or directly with the Superintendent of Public Instruction, as provided. Existing law requires a person who files a complaint with an educational institution, as defined, to be advised by that institution that civil law remedies may also be available, as specified. Existing law authorizes a party to a written complaint of prohibited discrimination to appeal the action taken by the governing board of a school district to the State Department of Education. Existing law authorizes a party to a written complaint of
 prohibited discrimination to appeal to the department based on the governing board of a school district’s failure to issue an investigation report within a certain timeline. Prior to direct intervention by the Superintendent regarding an appeal to the department based on a failure to issue an investigation report within a specified timeline, existing law requires the department to attempt to work with the local educational agency to issue a local educational agency report, within a specified timeline, to the Superintendent.

This bill would instead, prior to direct intervention by the Superintendent, require the department to notify the local educational agency, in writing, to issue a local educational agency investigation report to the complainant and the department within 20 days of the notification. The bill also would instead require a person who files a complaint with a local
 educational agency to be advised by that local educational agency that civil law remedies may also be available, as specified.

(3) If instructional materials are found to have resulted in unlawful discrimination, existing law requires those materials to be immediately and permanently omitted from the course materials and prohibits those materials from being used in any current course offerings or any subsequent course offerings.

This bill would require the Superintendent to ensure that local educational agencies omit all portions of the instructional materials found to have resulted in unlawful discrimination.

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 262.3 of the Education Code is amended to read:

262.3.

 (a) (1) A party to a written complaint of prohibited discrimination may appeal the action taken by the governing board of a school district pursuant to