Sacramento — A state senator in California has big ideas for how colleges should achieve gender equity in their athletics departments. Dean Florez, a Democrat from the state’s Central Valley, held a hearing on the issue on Tuesday, following recent multimillion-dollar victories for female ex-coaches who had sued over sex bias. On Wednesday the legislator issued a long list of recommendations for the California State University and University of California systems.

Mr. Florez has seized some time at the beginning of the state senate’s summer recess to read up on Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, the law that bans sex discrimination at institutions that receive federal funds. His recommendations for colleges involve a stricter set of provisions he has dubbed “California Title IX.”

Among other things, Mr. Florez proposed that all public colleges undergo an annual gender-equity certification process. Its requirements would be a state-mandated set of narrow permissible margins between men’s and women’s athletic participation, budgets, and scholarships. Under his plan, any colleges that failed would have a portion of their athletics funds revoked.

Mr. Florez also proposed creating a new Office of Gender Equity — one for each university system — that would investigate any students’ and employees’ complaints, collect testimony under the penalty of perjury, and report directly to the regents or trustees. —Sara Lipka