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CA SB 578

enacted

California Workplace Outreach Program.

California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper

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Quick answers

Did CA SB 578 pass?

Yes. CA SB 578 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2025-10-13): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 771, Statutes of 2025.

What is CA SB 578 about?

Existing law establishes the Department of Industrial Relations within the Labor and Workforce Development Agency to, among other things, foster, promote, and develop the welfare of wage earners, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment. This bill would, until January 1, 2031, require the department, upon appropriation of funds for this purpose, to establish and maintain the California Workplace Outreach Program to promote awareness of, and compliance with, workplace protections that affect workers. The bill would require the department to issue a competitive request for application for qualified organizations, as defined, to provide education and outreach services to workers and to assist workers to assert their workplace rights. This bill would require the department to guide discussions with qualified organizations regarding priority topics for outreach and education and to consult with those organizations and the Labor and Workforce Development Agency and, as relevant, its departments and boards to create education and outreach materials informing workers of their rights on priority topics and training materials for workers and organizations. The bill would require the materials to be translated into non-English languages, to be determined by the department in consultation with each qualified organization, as appropriate for the geographic region the qualified organization serves, and would require the materials to be made in consultation and collaboration with the Civil Rights Department if those materials involve protections under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act or certain other statutes. The bill would require the department and qualified organizations to meet at least twice a year to coordinate outreach and education efforts and for qualified organizations to share information relevant to enforcement activities of the department.

Who sponsors CA SB 578?

Smallwood-Cuevas is the primary sponsor of CA SB 578, joined by 6 cosponsors.

Description

Existing law establishes the Department of Industrial Relations within the Labor and Workforce Development Agency to, among other things, foster, promote, and develop the welfare of wage earners, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment. This bill would, until January 1, 2031, require the department, upon appropriation of funds for this purpose, to establish and maintain the California Workplace Outreach Program to promote awareness of, and compliance with, workplace protections that affect workers. The bill would require the department to issue a competitive request for application for qualified organizations, as defined, to provide education and outreach services to workers and to assist workers to assert their workplace rights. This bill would require the department to guide discussions with qualified organizations regarding priority topics for outreach and education and to consult with those organizations and the Labor and Workforce Development Agency and, as relevant, its departments and boards to create education and outreach materials informing workers of their rights on priority topics and training materials for workers and organizations. The bill would require the materials to be translated into non-English languages, to be determined by the department in consultation with each qualified organization, as appropriate for the geographic region the qualified organization serves, and would require the materials to be made in consultation and collaboration with the Civil Rights Department if those materials involve protections under the California Fair Employment and Housing Act or certain other statutes. The bill would require the department and qualified organizations to meet at least twice a year to coordinate outreach and education efforts and for qualified organizations to share information relevant to enforcement activities of the department.

Introduced
2025-02-20
Latest action
2025-10-13 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 771, Statutes of 2025.
Bill type
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Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • Smallwood-Cuevasauthor
  • Kalraprincipal coauthor
  • Cortesecoauthor
  • Gipsoncoauthor
  • Mark Gonzálezcoauthor
  • Ortegacoauthor
  • Schiavocoauthor

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

Newest first

  1. 2025-10-13

    Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 771, Statutes of 2025.

    became-law

  2. 2025-10-13

    Approved by the Governor.

    executive-signature

  3. 2025-09-22

    Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.

    executive-receipt

  4. 2025-09-11

    Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 30. Noes 10. Page 2882.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.

    amendment-passage,committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable

  5. 2025-09-10

    In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.

  6. 2025-09-10

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 61. Noes 11. Page 3177.) Ordered to the Senate.

    passage,reading-1,reading-3

  7. 2025-09-03

    Read third time and amended.

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  8. 2025-09-03

    Ordered to third reading.

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  9. 2025-09-02

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  10. 2025-08-29

    From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 3.) (August 29).

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  11. 2025-08-20

    August 20 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  12. 2025-07-10

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  13. 2025-06-09

    Referred to Com. on L. & E.

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  14. 2025-06-03

    In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.

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  15. 2025-06-02

    Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 28. Noes 10. Page 1383.) Ordered to the Assembly.

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  16. 2025-05-27

    Read second time. Ordered to third reading.

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  17. 2025-05-23

    Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading.

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  18. 2025-05-23

    From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 1. Page 1205.) (May 23).

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  19. 2025-05-16

    Set for hearing May 23.

  20. 2025-04-07

    April 7 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.

  21. 2025-03-28

    Set for hearing April 7.

  22. 2025-03-26

    From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 568.) (March 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.

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  23. 2025-03-18

    Set for hearing March 26.

  24. 2025-03-05

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

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  25. 2025-02-21

    From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.

  26. 2025-02-20

    Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.

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Versions

  • 02/20/25 - Introduced — 2025-02-20Compare
  • 05/23/25 - Amended Senate — 2025-05-23Compare
  • 09/03/25 - Amended Assembly — 2025-09-03Compare
  • 09/16/25 - Enrolled — 2025-09-16Compare
  • 10/13/25 - Chaptered — 2025-10-13Compare
  • SB578Compare
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Documents

Votes

  • Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-03-26 · pass · 4-1

    Member-level votes (5)
    • Laird: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Strickland: no

  • Placed on suspense file

    2025-04-07 · pass · 7-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Richardson: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Seyarto: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Dahle: yes

  • Do pass as amended

    2025-05-23 · pass · 5-1

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Caballero: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Seyarto: no
    • Dahle: other

  • 3rd Reading SB578 Smallwood-Cuevas

    2025-06-02 · pass · 28-10

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Umberg: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Ochoa Bogh: no
    • Niello: no
    • Seyarto: no
    • Valladares: no
    • Alvarado-Gil: no
    • Grove: no
    • Dahle: no
    • Strickland: no
    • Choi: no
    • Jones: no
    • Hurtado: other
    • Reyes: other

  • Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations]

    2025-07-09 · pass · 6-0

    Member-level votes (7)
    • Kalra: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Ward: yes
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Flora: yes
    • Chen: other

  • Do pass.

    2025-08-29 · pass · 11-3

    Member-level votes (15)
    • Elhawary: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Fong: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Calderon: yes
    • Arambula: yes
    • Mark González: yes
    • Wicks: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Ahrens: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Sanchez: no
    • Tangipa: no
    • Dixon: no
    • Ta: other

  • SB 578 Smallwood-Cuevas Senate Third Reading By Kalra

    2025-09-10 · pass · 61-11

    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
    • Jeff Gonzalez: yes
    • Pacheco: yes
    • Boerner: yes
    • Alvarez: yes
    • Lee: yes
    • Stefani: yes
    • Caloza: yes
    • Sharp-Collins: yes
    • Nguyen: yes
    • Ortega: yes
    • Solache: yes
    • Lowenthal: yes
    • Blanca Rubio: yes
    • Jackson: yes
    • Bryan: yes
    • Harabedian: yes
    • Gabriel: yes
    • Zbur: yes
    • Davies: yes
    • McKinnor: yes
    • Pellerin: yes
    • Muratsuchi: yes
    • Krell: yes
    • Irwin: yes
    • Ramos: yes
    • Patel: yes
    • Kalra: yes
    • Rivas: yes
    • Garcia: yes
    • Johnson: no
    • Dixon: no
    • Hadwick: no
    • Lackey: no
    • Macedo: no
    • Gallagher: no
    • Sanchez: no
    • Ellis: no
    • Flora: no
    • Patterson: no
    • DeMaio: no
    • Hoover: other
    • Tangipa: other
    • Petrie-Norris: other
    • Chen: other
    • Castillo: other
    • Alanis: other
    • Wallis: other
    • Ta: other

  • Unfinished Business SB578 Smallwood-Cuevas Concurrence

    2025-09-11 · pass · 30-10

    Member-level votes (40)
    • Umberg: yes
    • McGuire: yes
    • Pérez: yes
    • Cabaldon: yes
    • Wiener: yes
    • Reyes: yes
    • McNerney: yes
    • Cervantes: yes
    • Caballero: yes
    • Menjivar: yes
    • Allen: yes
    • Archuleta: yes
    • Limón: yes
    • Durazo: yes
    • Richardson: yes
    • Hurtado: yes
    • Blakespear: yes
    • Gonzalez: yes
    • Ashby: yes
    • Padilla: yes
    • Laird: yes
    • Stern: yes
    • Grayson: yes
    • Rubio: yes
    • Cortese: yes
    • Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
    • Becker: yes
    • Weber Pierson: yes
    • Arreguín: yes
    • Wahab: yes
    • Valladares: no
    • Alvarado-Gil: no
    • Ochoa Bogh: no
    • Seyarto: no
    • Jones: no
    • Grove: no
    • Strickland: no
    • Niello: no
    • Dahle: no
    • Choi: no

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