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CA AB 340

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Employer-employee relations: confidential communications.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Quick answers

Did CA AB 340 pass?

Not yet. CA AB 340 is in committee as of 2025-08-29 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

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

Sponsors

  • Ahrensauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2025-01-28

    Read first time. To print.

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  2. 2025-01-29

    From printer. May be heard in committee February 28.

  3. 2025-02-18

    Referred to Com. on P. E. & R.

    referral-committee

  4. 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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  5. 2025-03-06

    Re-referred to Com. on P. E. & R.

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  6. 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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  7. 2025-04-23

    In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.

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  8. 2025-05-23

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (May 23).

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  9. 2025-05-27

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  10. 2025-06-03

    Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 65. Noes 1. Page 1969.)

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  11. 2025-06-04

    In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.

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  12. 2025-06-18

    Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD.

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  13. 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.

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  14. 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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  15. 2025-08-18

    In committee: Referred to suspense file.

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  16. 2025-08-29

    In committee: Held under submission.

Versions

Documents

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

Related bills

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

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