California State University: faculty employees.

Header changed from enrolled bill format with passage dates to authenticated electronic legal material format with Chapter 149 assigned.

Governor approval date filled in as August 27, 2026, and filing date with Secretary of State noted as the same day.

Page numbers and formatting adjusted throughout to match the final chaptered layout.

Section 2 was deleted entirely. It had stated: 'It is the intent of the Legislature to enact legislation to protect California State University employees from the encroachment of artificial intelligence.' This was an aspirational statement with no direct legal effect, but it signaled legislative concern about AI replacing or displacing CSU workers.

The legislative counsel's digest paragraph referencing the Department of Technology's inventory of high-risk automated decision systems and the bill's intent to protect CSU employees from AI was removed from the enrolled version's digest.

New Section 89500.3(a) defines 'faculty employee' broadly to include professors, lecturers, librarians, counselors, and coaches in both instructional and noninstructional roles, across full-time, part-time, probationary, tenured, temporary, and extension for credit positions.

New Section 89500.3(b) requires that the instructor of record for any course must be a person who meets the rule to serve as a faculty employee teaching credit or noncredit instruction established under Section 89500.

New Section 89500.3(c) requires that any CSU faculty employee must be a person who meets the rule to serve in that position established under Section 89500.

New Section 89500.3(d) explicitly states that the section does not prohibit CSU employees from using AI tools to assist in university operations or in providing services to students, creating a clear carve-out that preserves AI tool usage while restricting who can hold faculty positions.

The bill's scope changed from a non-binding statement of legislative intent (no operative legal effect) to binding statutory requirements adding Section 89500.3 to the Education Code, with the original intent statement retained as Section 1 after the new code section.

Coauthors added: Assembly Members Fong, Mark Gonzalez, Muratsuchi, Patel, and Sharp-Collins.