Digital Democracy is updating its campaign finance records. During this upgrade, some financial data and visualizations may be temporarily unavailable. Thank you for your patience.

Donate
Bills

SB 928: California State University: faculty employees.

  • Session Year: 2025-2026
  • House: Senate
  • Latest Version Date: 2026-03-24

Current Status:

In Progress

(2026-04-23: In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.)

Introduced

In Committee

First Chamber

In Committee

Second Chamber

Enacted

Version:

Existing law establishes the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University, as one of the segments of public postsecondary education in the state. Existing law requires the trustees to provide by rule for the government of their appointees and employees, including, among other things, rules related to appointment, classification, and duties. Existing law requires certain community college employees to be a person who meets specified minimum qualifications, as provided.

This bill would explicitly require the instructor of record for a course of instruction to be a person who meets the rule provided by the trustees to serve as a faculty employee, as described, teaching credit instruction or noncredit instruction. The bill would also explicitly require a California State University faculty employee to be a person who meets the rule provided by the trustees to serve in that position.

Existing law establishes the California State University, under the administration of the Trustees of the California State University.Existing law establishes within the Government Operations Agency the Department of Technology. Existing law requires the Department of Technology to conduct, in coordination with other interagency bodies as it deems appropriate, a comprehensive inventory of all high-risk automated decision systems that have been proposed for use, development, or procurement by, or are being used, developed, or procured by, any state agency, including the California State University. For purposes of these provisions, existing law defines various terms, including automated decision system and artificial intelligence. Existing law requires the department to submit an annual report of the comprehensive inventory to the Assembly Committee on Privacy and Consumer Protection and the Senate Committee on Governmental Organization, until January 1, 2029.This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to protect California State University employees from the encroachment of artificial intelligence.

News Coverage:

SB 928: California State University: faculty employees. | Digital Democracy