20250SB__092898AMD INTRODUCED 2026-01-29 AMENDED_SENATE 2026-03-24 REVISED 2026-06-10 2025 SB AMD Introduced by Senator Cervantes (Coauthors: Assembly Members Fong, Mark González, Muratsuchi, Patel, and Sharp-Collins) LEAD_AUTHOR SENATE Cervantes COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Fong COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Mark González COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Muratsuchi COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Patel COAUTHOR ASSEMBLY Sharp-Collins

An act to add

Section 89500.3 to the Education Code, relating to public postsecondary education. public postsecondary education California State University: faculty employees. 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.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>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.</xhtml:p><xhtml:p>This bill would state the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to protect California State University employees from the encroachment of artificial intelligence.</xhtml:p>"?> MAJORITY NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO NO The people of the State of California do enact as follows:

SECTION

Section 89500.3 is added to the Education Code , to read: 89500.3. (a)

(1) For purposes of this section, “faculty employee” includes, but is not limited to, an employee of the California State University who is a professor, lecturer, librarian, counselor, or coach.

(2) The faculty employee positions described in paragraph (1) include, but are not limited to, instructional and noninstructional positions.

(3) The faculty employee positions described in paragraph (1) include, but are not limited to, full-time, part-time, probationary, tenured, temporary, and extension for credit positions. (

b) The instructor of record for a course of instruction shall be a person who meets the rule to serve as a faculty employee teaching credit instruction or a faculty employee teaching noncredit instruction established pursuant to

Section 89500. (

c) A California State University faculty employee shall be a person who meets the rule to serve in that position established pursuant to

Section 89500. (

d) This

section does not prohibit California State University employees from using artificial intelligence tools to assist in the operations of the California State University or in providing services to California State University students. <caml:Num>SECTION 1.</caml:Num><caml:Content><xhtml:p>It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to protect California State University employees from the encroachment of artificial intelligence.</xhtml:p></caml:Content></caml:BillSection>"?> REVISIONS: Heading—Line 2.