CA SB 854
enactedUnemployment insurance.
California · 2025-2026 Regular Session · upper
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Quick answers
Did CA SB 854 pass?
Yes. CA SB 854 has been enacted into law. Latest recorded action (2025-10-01): Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 240, Statutes of 2025.
What is CA SB 854 about?
Existing law, the Unemployment Insurance Code, governs unemployment insurance in the state, including, among other things, the administration of unemployment and disability compensation. Existing law defines various terms for purposes of the code. This bill would define "mail," "mailing," or "mailed" to include a writing transmitted by the United States Postal Service or other common mail carrier or by electronic transmission, as specified.
Who sponsors CA SB 854?
Committee on Labor, Public Employment and Retirement is the primary sponsor of CA SB 854.
Description
Existing law, the Unemployment Insurance Code, governs unemployment insurance in the state, including, among other things, the administration of unemployment and disability compensation. Existing law defines various terms for purposes of the code. This bill would define "mail," "mailing," or "mailed" to include a writing transmitted by the United States Postal Service or other common mail carrier or by electronic transmission, as specified.
- Introduced
- 2025-03-04
- Latest action
- 2025-10-01 — Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 240, Statutes of 2025.
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
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Subjects
Sponsors
- Committee on Labor, Public Employment and Retirementauthor
Committees
Not provided by source.
Action timeline
Newest first
2025-10-01
Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 240, Statutes of 2025.
became-law
2025-10-01
Approved by the Governor.
executive-signature
2025-09-03
Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11 a.m.
executive-receipt
2025-08-28
In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
committee-passage
2025-08-28
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 2777.) Ordered to the Senate.
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-08-21
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
reading-1,reading-2
2025-08-20
From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (August 20).
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable
2025-07-09
From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (July 9). Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
committee-passage,committee-passage-favorable,referral-committee
2025-05-19
Referred to Com. on INS.
referral-committee
2025-05-01
In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk.
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2025-05-01
Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 984.) Ordered to the Assembly.
passage,reading-1,reading-3
2025-04-29
Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar.
reading-1,reading-2
2025-04-28
From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar.
committee-passage,reading-1,reading-2
2025-04-17
Set for hearing April 28.
2025-04-10
Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR.
amendment-passage,reading-1,reading-2,referral-committee
2025-04-09
From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 740.) (April 9).
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2025-03-26
Set for hearing April 9.
2025-03-12
Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R.
referral-committee
2025-03-05
From printer. May be acted upon on or after April 4.
2025-03-04
Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print.
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Votes
Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-04-09 · pass · 5-0
Member-level votes (5)
- Durazo: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- Laird: yes
- Strickland: yes
Consent Calendar 2nd SB854 L., P.E. & R. (Smallwood-Cuevas)
2025-05-01 · pass · 37-0
Member-level votes (40)
- Choi: yes
- Richardson: yes
- Limón: yes
- Cortese: yes
- Cervantes: yes
- Durazo: yes
- Gonzalez: yes
- Smallwood-Cuevas: yes
- McNerney: yes
- Blakespear: yes
- Dahle: yes
- Strickland: yes
- Allen: yes
- Ashby: yes
- Stern: yes
- Ochoa Bogh: yes
- McGuire: yes
- Menjivar: yes
- Laird: yes
- Caballero: yes
- Becker: yes
- Hurtado: yes
- Valladares: yes
- Wahab: yes
- Umberg: yes
- Cabaldon: yes
- Arreguín: yes
- Padilla: yes
- Pérez: yes
- Archuleta: yes
- Grayson: yes
- Weber Pierson: yes
- Wiener: yes
- Jones: yes
- Niello: yes
- Seyarto: yes
- Grove: yes
- Reyes: other
- Rubio: other
- Alvarado-Gil: other
Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar
2025-07-09 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (17)
- Ortega: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Berman: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Addis: yes
- Alvarez: yes
- Chen: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Valencia: other
- Krell: other
Do pass. To Consent Calendar.
2025-08-20 · pass · 15-0
Member-level votes (15)
- Fong: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Ta: yes
- Solache: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Dixon: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Elhawary: yes
- Hart: yes
- Mark González: yes
SB 854 Labor, Public Employment and Retirement Consent Calendar Second Day
2025-08-28 · pass · 74-0
Member-level votes (79)
- Michelle Rodriguez: yes
- Zbur: yes
- Jeff Gonzalez: yes
- Carrillo: yes
- Stefani: yes
- Dixon: yes
- DeMaio: yes
- Krell: yes
- Muratsuchi: yes
- Ransom: yes
- Schiavo: yes
- Ahrens: yes
- Tangipa: yes
- Chen: yes
- Blanca Rubio: yes
- Bryan: yes
- Papan: yes
- Lee: yes
- Soria: yes
- Ellis: yes
- Bonta: yes
- Addis: yes
- Aguiar-Curry: yes
- Garcia: yes
- Hadwick: yes
- Hart: yes
- Ortega: yes
- Bauer-Kahan: yes
- Nguyen: yes
- Mark González: yes
- Solache: yes
- Gabriel: yes
- Bennett: yes
- Castillo: yes
- Irwin: yes
- Pellerin: yes
- Harabedian: yes
- Ward: yes
- Schultz: yes
- Calderon: yes
- Ta: yes
- Alanis: yes
- Pacheco: yes
- Macedo: yes
- Wicks: yes
- Connolly: yes
- Bains: yes
- Flora: yes
- Sanchez: yes
- Jackson: yes
- Lackey: yes
- Patel: yes
- Davies: yes
- Kalra: yes
- Celeste Rodriguez: yes
- McKinnor: yes
- Petrie-Norris: yes
- Ávila Farías: yes
- Caloza: yes
- Sharp-Collins: yes
- Wilson: yes
- Hoover: yes
- Fong: yes
- Gipson: yes
- Patterson: yes
- Quirk-Silva: yes
- Rivas: yes
- Rogers: yes
- Boerner: yes
- Arambula: yes
- Ramos: yes
- Lowenthal: yes
- Haney: yes
- Wallis: yes
- Alvarez: other
- Berman: other
- Elhawary: other
- Valencia: other
- Gallagher: other
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