CA AB 406
enactedEmployment: unlawful discrimination: victims of violence.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower
Quick answers
Did CA AB 406 pass?
Yes. CA AB 406 has been enacted into law as of 2025-10-01. Latest recorded action (2025-10-01): Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 148, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA AB 406 about?
Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, establishes the Civil Rights Department within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, under the direction of the Director of Civil Rights, to enforce civil rights laws with respect to housing and employment and to protect and safeguard the right of all persons to obtain and hold employment without discrimination based on specified characteristics or status. Existing law prescribes various functions, duties, and powers of the department, including, among others, to bring prescribed civil actions for violations of specified federal civil rights and antidiscrimination laws. Prior law, until January 1, 2025, authorized an employee who was discriminated or retaliated against for exercising certain rights to file a complaint with the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement in accordance with specified Labor Code provisions. These employee rights include, among other things, the right to take time off work to serve on a trial or to obtain specified crime-related relief. Existing law, as of January 1, 2025, transferred the authority to enforce these discrimination provisions from the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement to the Civil Rights Department. Existing law also repealed the above-described Labor Code provisions, and added new enforcement provisions to the California Fair Employment and Housing Act within the Government Code. Among other changes, these provisions refer to a "qualifying act of violence," as defined, instead of crime, or crime or abuse, for purposes of obtaining relief. Existing law further prohibits an employer with 25 or more employees from discharging or in any manner discriminating or retaliating against an employee who is a victim or who has a family member who is a victim for taking time off work for any of a number of additional prescribed purposes relating to a qualifying act of violence, as defined. Existing law requires an employee, as a condition of taking time off, to provide the employer with reasonable advance notice, unless not feasible, in accordance with certain procedural requirements. This bill would reinstate the above-described former Labor Code provisions, to apply only to alleged actions or inactions occurring on or before December 31, 2024. This bill would also transfer enforcement authority for two additional discrimination provisions relating to attending judicial proceedings from the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement to the Civil Rights Department. The bill would make other conforming changes. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
Who sponsors CA AB 406?
Schiavo is the primary sponsor of CA AB 406.
Description
Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, establishes the Civil Rights Department within the Business, Consumer Services, and Housing Agency, under the direction of the Director of Civil Rights, to enforce civil rights laws with respect to housing and employment and to protect and safeguard the right of all persons to obtain and hold employment without discrimination based on specified characteristics or status. Existing law prescribes various functions, duties, and powers of the department, including, among others, to bring prescribed civil actions for violations of specified federal civil rights and antidiscrimination laws. Prior law, until January 1, 2025, authorized an employee who was discriminated or retaliated against for exercising certain rights to file a complaint with the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement in accordance with specified Labor Code provisions. These employee rights include, among other things, the right to take time off work to serve on a trial or to obtain specified crime-related relief. Existing law, as of January 1, 2025, transferred the authority to enforce these discrimination provisions from the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement to the Civil Rights Department. Existing law also repealed the above-described Labor Code provisions, and added new enforcement provisions to the California Fair Employment and Housing Act within the Government Code. Among other changes, these provisions refer to a "qualifying act of violence," as defined, instead of crime, or crime or abuse, for purposes of obtaining relief. Existing law further prohibits an employer with 25 or more employees from discharging or in any manner discriminating or retaliating against an employee who is a victim or who has a family member who is a victim for taking time off work for any of a number of additional prescribed purposes relating to a qualifying act of violence, as defined. Existing law requires an employee, as a condition of taking time off, to provide the employer with reasonable advance notice, unless not feasible, in accordance with certain procedural requirements. This bill would reinstate the above-described former Labor Code provisions, to apply only to alleged actions or inactions occurring on or before December 31, 2024. This bill would also transfer enforcement authority for two additional discrimination provisions relating to attending judicial proceedings from the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement to the Civil Rights Department. The bill would make other conforming changes. This bill would declare that it is to take effect immediately as an urgency statute.
- Introduced
- 2025-03-04
- Latest action
- 2025-10-01 — Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 148, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Schiavoauthor
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
2025-02-04
Read first time. To print.
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2025-02-05
From printer. May be heard in committee March 7.
2025-02-24
Referred to Com. on U. & E.
referral-committee
2025-03-04
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on U. & E. Read second time and amended.
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2025-03-05
Re-referred to Com. on U. & E.
referral-committee
2025-03-27
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-04-23
From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (April 23).
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2025-04-24
Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar.
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2025-05-01
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1386.)
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2025-05-01
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
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2025-05-14
Referred to Com. on E., U & C.
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2025-06-23
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on E., U & C.
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2025-06-24
Withdrawn from committee.
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2025-06-24
Re-referred to Com. on RLS.
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2025-06-25
Re-referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and JUD.
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2025-06-27
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
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2025-07-09
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on JUD.
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2025-07-16
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 15). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-08-19
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8.
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2025-08-20
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-09-03
Read third time. Urgency clause adopted. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 30. Noes 2. Page 2460.).
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2025-09-03
In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
2025-09-04
Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2.
referral-committee
2025-09-09
Joint Rule 62(a), file notice suspended. (Page 3061.)
2025-09-10
From committee: That the Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (September 10).
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2025-09-11
Urgency clause adopted. Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 0. Page 3286.).
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2025-09-23
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
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2025-10-01
Approved by the Governor.
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2025-10-01
Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 148, Statutes of 2025.
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Votes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-03-26 · pass · 18-0
Member-level votes (18)
- Davies: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Ta: yes
- Hart: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Papan: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Chen: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Mark González: yes
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2025-04-23 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Pacheco: yes
- Ta: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Hart: yes
- Solache: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Fong: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Dixon: yes
AB 406 Bennett Consent Calendar Second Day
2025-05-01 · pass · 76-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Bains: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Addis: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Fong: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Solache: yes
- Krell: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Lee: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Ta: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Flora: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Soria: yes
- Patel: yes
- Haney: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Gallagher: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Hart: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Ward: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Davies: yes
- Berman: yes
- McKinnor: other
- Papan: other
- Chen: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary]
2025-07-09 · pass · 4-1
Member-level votes (5)
- Laird: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Strickland: no
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-07-15 · pass · 11-0
Member-level votes (13)
- Caballero: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Laird: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Stern: yes
- Allen: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Valladares: other
- Niello: other
3rd Reading AB406 Schiavo By Smallwood-Cuevas Urgency Clause
2025-09-03 · pass · 30-2
Member-level votes (40)
- Becker: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Stern: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Rubio: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Limón: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Allen: yes
- Padilla: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Grayson: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Laird: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Reyes: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Strickland: no
- Alvarado-Gil: no
- Seyarto: other
- Jones: other
- Valladares: other
- Niello: other
- Grove: other
- Ochoa Bogh: other
- Choi: other
- Dahle: other
With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in.
2025-09-10 · pass · 5-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Ortega: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Ward: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Lee: yes
- Flora: other
- Chen: other
AB 406 Schiavo Concurrence - Urgency Added
2025-09-11 · pass · 67-0
Member-level votes (80)
- Ahrens: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Addis: yes
- Ward: yes
- Haney: yes
- Hart: yes
- Fong: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Bains: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Soria: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Berman: yes
- Valencia: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Papan: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Lee: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Solache: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Davies: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Krell: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Patel: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Flora: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Johnson: other
- Dixon: other
- Hoover: other
- Hadwick: other
- Lackey: other
- Macedo: other
- Gallagher: other
- Jeff Gonzalez: other
- Sanchez: other
- Chen: other
- Ellis: other
- Patterson: other
- Ta: other
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