California AB 1730: Community colleges: external resolution services for civil rights compliance: managing entity and civil rights coordinator.

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 02/05/26 - Introduced

 AB-1730 Community colleges: external resolution services for civil rights compliance: managing entity and civil rights coordinator.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 04/23/2026 09:00 PM

AB1730:v97#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 April 23, 2026

 Amended
 IN 
 Assembly
 March 19, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 1730

Introduced by Assembly Member Fong

February 05, 2026

An act to add the heading of Chapter 1 (commencing with Section 70900) to, and to add Chapter 2 (commencing with Section 70920) to, Part 43 of Division 7 of Title 3 of the Education Code, relating to community colleges, and making an appropriation therefor.

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 1730, as amended, Fong.
 Community colleges: external resolution services for civil rights compliance: managing entity and Title IX civil rights coordinator.

Existing law establishes the California Community Colleges, administered by the Board of Governors of the California Community Colleges, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in the state. Existing law establishes community college districts throughout the state under the administration of community college district governing boards.

Existing law prohibits a person from being subjected to discrimination on the basis of specified attributes, including, among others, disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity, or immigration status, in a program or activity conducted by a postsecondary educational institution that receives, or benefits from, state financial assistance or enrolls students who receive state student financial aid, including, among others, community colleges.

This
 bill would require the board of governors, on or before June 1, 2027, and every 3 years thereafter, within one year of appropriation, to enter into a contract with a managing entity, as defined, to administer on behalf of the California Community Colleges external resolution services for civil rights compliance, including, among other services, developing and recommending a nondiscrimination policy, assisting the office of the Chancellor of the California Community Colleges in developing a an annual campus discrimination prevention training program for students and employees, and addressing grievances and complaints alleging
 discrimination, as specified. The bill would also require the board of governors to approve and annually update
 the nondiscrimination policy recommended by the managing entity, entity and require the governing boards of community college districts to adopt the policy, and impose a fine on community college districts that do not adopt the policy, as provided. The bill would further require community college districts districts, within one year of appropriation, to designate a staff person as a Title IX
 civil rights coordinator tasked with specified duties, including, among others, responding to complaints alleging discrimination and maintaining a record system of files on those complaints, as specified. The bill would establish, for a complainant or respondent dissatisfied with an administrative decision made by the managing entity or the Title IX coordinator regarding the outcome of the complaint, a process to appeal that decision to the chancellor’s office, as provided.

This bill would establish in the State Treasury the External Resolution Services Fund as a continuously appropriated fund, thereby making an appropriation, for the payment of the above-described services rendered by the managing entity, as provided. The bill would require a community college district to deposit into the fund the district’s proportional share of the payment for the services rendered by the managing entity in the prior fiscal year based on the number of full-time equivalent
 students in the community college district, as provided. If a community college district does not pay its proportional share into the fund, the bill would require that amount to be withheld from the community college district’s 2nd principal apportionment.

By imposing new duties on community college districts, this bill would i