00 – AB 1856 – Harassment: liability of employees

Year: 2000

Category: Social/Political, Workplace

Bill Description:

AB 1856 expressly provides that under the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA), a non-supervisorial employees may be held civilly liable for harassment based on race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, age, or sexual orientation perpetrated against another employee, an applicant for employment, or a person providing services under a contract.

00 – AB 1785 – Hate violence

Year: 2000

Category: Social/Political, Educational

Bill Description:

AB 1785 required public schools to include the reporting of hate-motivated incidents and hate crimes on the standard crime reporting form and revises the state education curriculum to include human relations education.

99 – AB 1001 – Fair employment and housing

Year: 1999

Category: Workplace, Housing

Bill Description:

AB 1001 moved the provision prohibiting employment discrimination on the basis of actual or perceived sexual orientation from the Labor Code to the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA). In adding sexual orientation to FEHA, it codified existing case law prohibiting housing discrimination based on sexual orientation.

99 – AB 537 – Discrimination

Year: 1999

Category: Social/Political, Educational

Bill Description:

AB 537 amended the California Education Code’s general anti-discrimination and harassment provisions (Sections 200, 220, 66251, and 66270) to prohibit discrimination and harassment in the public schools and community colleges’ programs and activities “regardless of any basis that is contained in the prohibition of hate crimes set forth in Penal Code Section 422.6(a).” By referencing the current hate crime statute, actual or perceived lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered students and staff are protected from discrimination and harassment in public schools and colleges.

99 – AB 208 – Murder: punishment

Year: 1999

Category: Social/Political

Bill Description:

AB 208 would provide that the penalty for a defendant who is convicted of first-degree murder is life imprisonment without possibility of parole if the victim was intentionally killed because of the victim’s actual or perceived disability, gender or sexual orientation.

99 – AB 26 – Domestic partners

Year: 1999

Category: Family, Medical

Bill Description:

AB 26 created a statewide domestic partnership registry within the Secretary of State. Domestic partners would include same-sex couples (18 years and over) as well as unmarried opposite-sex couples over the age of 62. The bill would provide hospital visitation rights between domestic partners and would provide state and local government employers the ability to offer health care coverage to the domestic partners of their employees and annuitants.