CA AB 1564
Status unknownEmployer-employee relations: confidential communications.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
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Quick answers
Did CA AB 1564 pass?
The current status of CA AB 1564 is not known from the official record. Latest recorded action (2026-08-13): In committee: Held under submission.
What is CA AB 1564 about?
Existing law that governs the labor relations of public employees and employers, including, among others, the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, the Ralph C. Dills Act, provisions relating to public schools, and provisions relating to higher education prohibits employers from taking certain actions relating to employee organization, including imposing or threatening to impose reprisals on employees, discriminating or threatening to discriminate against employees, or otherwise interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees because of their exercise of their guaranteed rights. Those provisions of existing law further prohibit denying to employee organizations the rights guaranteed to them by existing law. This bill would prohibit a public employer from questioning a public employee, a representative of a recognized employee organization, or an exclusive representative regarding communications made in confidence between an employee and an employee representative in connection with representation relating to any matter within the scope of the recognized employee organization's representation. The bill would also prohibit a public employer from compelling a public employee, a representative of a recognized employee organization, or an exclusive representative to disclose those confidential communications to a third party. The bill would not apply to a criminal investigation or when a public safety officer is under investigation and certain circumstances exist.
Who sponsors CA AB 1564?
Ahrens is the primary sponsor of CA AB 1564.
Description
Existing law that governs the labor relations of public employees and employers, including, among others, the Meyers-Milias-Brown Act, the Ralph C. Dills Act, provisions relating to public schools, and provisions relating to higher education prohibits employers from taking certain actions relating to employee organization, including imposing or threatening to impose reprisals on employees, discriminating or threatening to discriminate against employees, or otherwise interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees because of their exercise of their guaranteed rights. Those provisions of existing law further prohibit denying to employee organizations the rights guaranteed to them by existing law. This bill would prohibit a public employer from questioning a public employee, a representative of a recognized employee organization, or an exclusive representative regarding communications made in confidence between an employee and an employee representative in connection with representation relating to any matter within the scope of the recognized employee organization's representation. The bill would also prohibit a public employer from compelling a public employee, a representative of a recognized employee organization, or an exclusive representative to disclose those confidential communications to a third party. The bill would not apply to a criminal investigation or when a public safety officer is under investigation and certain circumstances exist.
- Introduced
- 2026-02-25
- Latest action
- 2026-08-13 — In committee: Held under submission.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Ahrensauthor
Committees
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Action timeline
Newest first
2026-08-13
In committee: Held under submission.
2026-08-03
In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file.
2026-07-01
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 12. Noes 1.) (June 30). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-06-24
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 24). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
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2026-06-22
Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. (Ayes 26. Noes 7.)
2026-06-22
Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD.
referral-committee
2026-06-22
Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. (Ayes 27. Noes 7. Page 4897.)
2026-05-27
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2026-05-26
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 4.)
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2026-05-26
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 4. Page 5354.)
2026-05-19
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2026-05-18
Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading.
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2026-05-14
From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 14).
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2026-05-06
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file.
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2026-03-18
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 18). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2026-02-26
Re-referred to Com. on P. E. & R. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96.
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2026-02-26
Re-referred to Com. on B. & P.
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2026-02-25
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on B. & P. Read second time and amended.
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2026-02-02
Referred to Com. on B. & P.
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2026-01-13
From printer. May be heard in committee February 12.
2026-01-12
Read first time. To print.
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Votes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-03-18 · pass · 6-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Boerner: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Lackey: other
Do pass as amended.
2026-05-14 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Krell: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Fong: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Solache: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Tangipa: other
- Ta: other
- Dixon: other
- Hoover: other
AB 1564 Ahrens Assembly Third Reading
2026-05-27 · pass · 65-4
Member-level votes (80)
- Ward: yes
- Patel: yes
- Hart: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Lee: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Haney: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Chen: yes
- Papan: yes
- Soria: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Solache: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Krell: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Berman: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Davies: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Bains: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Fong: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Addis: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Sanchez: no
- Gallagher: no
- Tangipa: no
- DeMaio: no
- Flora: other
- Hadwick: other
- Lackey: other
- Dixon: other
- Carrillo: other
- Ellis: other
- Castillo: other
- Johnson: other
- Celeste Rodriguez: other
- Muratsuchi: other
- Ta: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]
2026-06-24 · pass · 5-0
Member-level votes (5)
- Laird: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Cortese: yes
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2026-06-30 · pass · 12-1
Member-level votes (13)
- Wahab: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Laird: yes
- Stern: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Allen: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Niello: no
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