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 AB-2212 Postsecondary education: sexual harassment, harassment, intimidation, and bullying policies: student training.(2025-2026)

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 Date Published: 07/01/2026 09:00 PM

AB2212:v94#DOCUMENTBill Start

 Amended
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 Senate
 July 01, 2026

 Amended
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 Assembly
 May 18, 2026

 Amended
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 Assembly
 April 23, 2026

 Amended
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 Assembly
 April 16, 2026

 Amended
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 Assembly
 April 06, 2026

 CALIFORNIA LEGISLATURE—
 2025–2026 REGULAR SESSION

 Assembly Bill

No. 2212

Introduced by Assembly Member Bauer-Kahan
(Coauthors: Assembly Members Fong and Pellerin)

February 19, 2026

 An act to amend Sections 66281.9, 66302, 67385.7, 87604.5, 89521, and 92612.1 of, to add Section 66286 to, to repeal Section 66302.5 of, and to repeal and add Section 66262.5 of, the Education Code, relating to postsecondary education. 

LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST

AB 2212, as amended, Bauer-Kahan.
 Postsecondary education: sexual harassment, harassment, intimidation, and bullying policies: student orientation and training.

(1) The Equity in Higher Education Act provides, among other things, that all students have the right to participate fully in the educational process, free from discrimination and harassment. Existing law provides that sexual harassment of students is a form of prohibited sex discrimination and defines terms for purposes of the Equity in Higher Education Act.

This bill would define additional terms for purposes of the act, including, among other terms, “digitized sexually explicit material,” “sextortion,” “technology-facilitated sexual harassment,” “affirmative consent,” and “written consent.” The bill would also revise the definitions of “sexual harassment” and “sexual exploitation,” and make conforming changes.

This bill would require, in order to receive state funds for
 student financial assistance, the governing board of a community college district, the Trustees of the California State University, the Regents of the University of California, and the governing boards of independent postsecondary educational institutions to update their respective sexual harassment policies to include, among other things, (A) a prohibition on the public disclosure of the creation or generation of digitized sexually explicit material without the depicted individual’s or individuals’ written consent, (B) a policy that the disclosure of such material without that consent is sexual exploitation, and (C) a list of organizations to assist students and employees with the removal of digitized sexually explicit material from digital platforms, as provided.

By imposing new duties on community college districts, this bill would impose a state-mandated local program.

(2)Existing law requires the Trustees of the California State University and the governing board of a community college district, and requests the University of California, to adopt and publish policies on harassment, intimidation, and bullying, and to include these policies within the rules and regulations governing student behavior. Existing law requires the trustees, and requests the regents, to provide, as a part of established campus orientations, educational and preventive information about cyberbullying
 to students at all campuses.

This bill instead would require the regents to adopt and publish policies on harassment, intimidation, and bullying, and to include these policies within the rules and regulations governing student conduct. The bill would also require the governing board of a community college district, the trustees, and the regents to provide, as part of established campus orientations, educational and preventive information about those subjects to students.

Existing

(2) Existing law requires each campus of the California Community Colleges and the California State
 University, and requests each independent institution of higher education, each private postsecondary educational institution, and each campus of the University of California, to post educational and preventive information on sexual violence and sexual harassment on its