CA AB 1109

in committee

Evidentiary privileges: union agent-represented worker privilege.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Existing law governs the admissibility of evidence in court proceedings and generally provides a privilege as to communications made in the course of certain relations, including the attorney-client, physician-patient, and psychotherapist-patient relationship, as specified. Under existing law, the right of any person to claim those evidentiary privileges is waived with respect to a communication protected by the privilege if any holder of the privilege, without coercion, has disclosed a significant part of the communication or has consented to a disclosure. This bill would establish a privilege between a union agent, as defined, and a represented employee or represented former employee to refuse to disclose any confidential communication between the employee or former employee and the union agent made while the union agent was acting in the union agent's representative capacity, except as specified. The bill would permit a represented employee or represented former employee to prevent another person from disclosing a privileged communication, except as specified. The bill would further provide that this privilege may be waived in accordance with existing law and does not apply in criminal proceedings.

Introduced: —
Status date: —
Latest action: 2025-08-29 — In committee: Held under submission.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

Subjects

Committees

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Action timeline

2025-02-20
Read first time. To print.
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2025-02-21
From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2025-03-13
Referred to Com. on JUD.
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2025-04-08
Coauthors revised.
2025-04-08
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 8).
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2025-04-09
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-05-12
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 59. Noes 6. Page 1507.)
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2025-05-13
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-06-11
Referred to Coms. on JUD. and APPR.
referral-committee
2025-07-02
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (July 1). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-07-14
In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
referral-committee
2025-08-29
In committee: Held under submission.

Versions

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Votes

Do pass.
2025-04-08 · pass · 9-0
Member-level votes (12)
- Zbur: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Papan: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Dixon: other
- Tangipa: other
- Sanchez: other
AB 1109 Kalra Assembly Third Reading
2025-05-12 · pass · 59-6
Member-level votes (79)
- Carrillo: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Hart: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Addis: yes
- Ward: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Soria: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Solache: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Papan: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Lee: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Fong: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Haney: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Berman: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Krell: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Patel: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Bains: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Ellis: no
- Gallagher: no
- Tangipa: no
- Sanchez: no
- Macedo: no
- DeMaio: no
- Bauer-Kahan: other
- Lackey: other
- Hoover: other
- Flora: other
- Wallis: other
- Davies: other
- Patterson: other
- Castillo: other
- Petrie-Norris: other
- Stefani: other
- Chen: other
- Dixon: other
- Ta: other
- Hadwick: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-07-01 · pass · 10-2
Member-level votes (13)
- Durazo: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Stern: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Laird: yes
- Allen: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Valladares: no
- Niello: no
- Caballero: other
Placed on suspense file
2025-07-14 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Cabaldon: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Seyarto: yes

Related bills

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