CA AB 340

in committee

Employer-employee relations: confidential communications.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

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Did CA AB 340 pass?

Not yet. CA AB 340 is in committee and has not come to a final vote. Latest recorded action (2025-08-29): In committee: Held under submission.

What is CA AB 340 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 340?

Ahrens is the primary sponsor of CA AB 340.

Description

Introduced: 2025-03-05
Latest action: 2025-08-29 — In committee: Held under submission.
Bill type: bill
Last updated: —

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Action timeline

Newest first

2025-08-29
In committee: Held under submission.
2025-08-18
In committee: Referred to suspense file.
referral-committee
2025-07-16
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 2.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-06-25
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-06-18
Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD.
referral-committee
2025-06-04
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-06-03
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 1. Page 1969.)
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2025-05-27
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-05-23
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23).
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2025-04-23
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
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2025-03-19
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (March 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-03-06
Re-referred to Com. on P. E. & R.
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2025-03-05
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on P. E. & R. Read second time and amended.
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2025-02-18
Referred to Com. on P. E. & R.
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2025-01-29
From printer. May be heard in committee February 28.
2025-01-28
Read first time. To print.
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Votes

Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-03-19 · pass · 6-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Boerner: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Lackey: other
Do pass.
2025-05-23 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Calderon: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Hart: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Solache: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Fong: yes
- Ta: other
- Sanchez: other
- Dixon: other
- Tangipa: other
AB 340 Ahrens Assembly Third Reading
2025-06-03 · pass · 65-1
Member-level votes (79)
- Berman: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Fong: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Flora: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Haney: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Soria: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Chen: yes
- Papan: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Bains: yes
- Addis: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Solache: yes
- Lee: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Patel: yes
- Ward: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Krell: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Davies: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Gipson: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Hart: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- DeMaio: no
- Jeff Gonzalez: other
- Ta: other
- Sanchez: other
- Tangipa: other
- Ellis: other
- Hadwick: other
- Patterson: other
- Gallagher: other
- Castillo: other
- Hoover: other
- Lackey: other
- Dixon: other
- Macedo: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]
2025-06-25 · pass · 4-1
Member-level votes (5)
- Cortese: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Laird: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Strickland: no
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-07-15 · pass · 10-2
Member-level votes (13)
- Caballero: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Laird: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Stern: yes
- Allen: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Valladares: no
- Niello: no
- Weber Pierson: other
Placed on suspense file
2025-08-18 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Richardson: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Grayson: yes

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http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202520260AB340

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