CA AB 694

in committee

Department of Industrial Relations: advisory committee: occupational safety and health.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Existing law establishes the Division of Occupational Safety and Health in the Department of Industrial Relations, and charges the division with the enforcement of various laws affecting safe working conditions, including the California Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1973. Existing law requires the Director of Industrial Relations to prepare and submit to the Legislature an annual report on the activities of the Division of Occupational Safety and Health, as specified. Existing law establishes the University of California, under the administration of the Regents of the University of California, as one of the segments of postsecondary education in the state. Existing law requires the Department of Industrial Relations to contract with the University of California, Los Angeles Labor Center, to conduct a study evaluating opportunities to improve worker safety and safeguard employment rights, as specified, and to convene an advisory committee to make recommendations regarding the scope of the study, as described. This bill would require the department, upon appropriation by the Legislature, to contract with the University of California, Berkeley Labor Occupational Health Program and the University of California, Los Angeles Labor Occupational Safety and Health Program to conduct a study to evaluate the understaffing and vacancies within the division and make recommendations to the department, the Department of Human Resources, and the Legislature on policies the state shall use to inform the consideration and establishment of career pathways to the Compliance Safety and Health Officer classification. The bill would authorize the University of California to subcontract the responsibility for conducting the study to other specified entities. The bill would require the University of California and its subcontractors, if any, to issue a report that includes certain information about the understaffing and vacancies of Compliance Safety and Health Officers within the division. The bill would further require the University of California to convene an advisory committee consisting of members from specified state agencies, worker advocacy organizations, other academic institutions, and other entities, as specified, to make recommendations regarding the scope of the above-described study, and provide specified findings and recommendations to the division, as prescribed. The bill would require the advisory committee, within 60 days of entering into the contract the University of California, to hold at least one meeting, and the department, 18 months after entering into the contract with the University of California, to post the completed report on the division's internet website and to forward the completed report to the members of the advisory committee, the Governor, and specified legislative committee chairs. The bill would define terms for these purposes, and include finding and declaration relating to these provisions.

Introduced: 2025-03-24
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

2025-02-14
Read first time. To print.
reading-1
2025-02-15
From printer. May be heard in committee March 17.
2025-03-03
Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and HIGHER ED.
referral-committee
2025-03-10
In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2025-03-24
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended.
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-03-25
Re-referred to Com. on L. & E.
referral-committee
2025-04-03
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-04-21
From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on HIGHER ED. Read second time and amended.
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-04-22
Re-referred to Com. on HIGHER ED.
referral-committee
2025-04-30
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 29). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
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2025-05-14
In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to suspense file.
referral-committee
2025-05-23
From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 0.) (May 23).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-05-27
Read second time. Ordered to third reading.
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2025-06-02
Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 1. Page 1846.)
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2025-06-03
In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment.
reading-1,referral-committee
2025-06-11
Referred to Coms. on L., P.E. & R. and ED.
referral-committee
2025-06-11
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.
amendment-introduction,amendment-passage,committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-06-18
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on ED. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 18). Re-referred to Com. on ED.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-07-02
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 1.) (July 2). 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

02/14/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-14Compare
03/24/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-03-24Compare
04/21/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-04-21Compare
06/11/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-06-11Compare
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Documents

Votes

Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Higher Education] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-04-02 · pass · 7-0
Member-level votes (7)
- Elhawary: yes
- Chen: yes
- Flora: yes
- Ward: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Lee: yes
- Kalra: yes
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-04-29 · pass · 9-0
Member-level votes (10)
- Boerner: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Fong: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Patel: yes
- DeMaio: other
Do pass.
2025-05-23 · pass · 14-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Calderon: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Hart: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Solache: yes
- Ta: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Fong: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Sanchez: other
AB 694 McKinnor Assembly Third Reading
2025-06-02 · pass · 76-1
Member-level votes (79)
- Addis: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Lee: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Krell: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Ward: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Patel: yes
- Solache: yes
- Chen: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Papan: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- Fong: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Soria: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Davies: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Haney: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Hart: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Berman: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Ta: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Flora: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Bains: yes
- Valencia: yes
- DeMaio: no
- Gallagher: other
- Sanchez: other
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Education]
2025-06-18 · pass · 4-1
Member-level votes (5)
- Cortese: yes
- Laird: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Strickland: no
Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]
2025-07-02 · pass · 6-1
Member-level votes (7)
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Laird: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Choi: no
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

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