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An act to amend Section 66270 of the Education Code, relating to postsecondary education. LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST Existing law prohibits a person from being subjected to discrimination on the basis of specified characteristics, including, among others, disability, gender, gender identity, gender expression, or sexual orientation 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. This bill would expressly include sex in the list of specified characteristics. The people of the State of California do enact as follows: SECTION 1. Section 66270 of the Education Code is amended to read: 66270. A person shall not be subjected to discrimination on the basis of disability, sex, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion, sexual orientation, any characteristic listed or defined in Section 11135 or subdivision (r) of Section 12926 of the Government Code, or any other characteristic that is contained in the prohibition of hate crimes set forth in subdivision (a) of Section 422.6 of the Penal Code, including 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.
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