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+type: "Bill"
+title: "Employment discrimination: conviction history."
+description: "Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) , prohibits an employer from engaging in various defined forms of discriminatory employment practices."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20172018"
+identifier: "AB 1008"
+citation: "California AB 1008 (20172018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Employment discrimination: conviction history."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["McCarty"]
+version_count: 10
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 9
+first_action: "2017-02-16"
+last_action: "2017-10-14"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6a350cb4-2053-40ed-a008-8618730a2879"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1008"
+source_hash: "1a764290dc92379404dc22b349a8b27ee72c3d6100ca6ba63a69e9f92170fcf9"
+vintage: "2026-07-01"
+source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
+retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
+confidence: "reported"
+tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
+---
+
+# California AB 1008 (20172018) — Employment discrimination: conviction history.
+
+Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) , prohibits an employer from engaging in various defined forms of discriminatory employment practices.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **02/16/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1008&version=20170AB100899INT)
+2. **05/01/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1008&version=20170AB100898AMD)
+3. **05/30/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1008&version=20170AB100897AMD)
+4. **06/20/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1008&version=20170AB100896AMD)
+5. **07/18/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1008&version=20170AB100895AMD)
+6. **09/01/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1008&version=20170AB100894AMD)
+7. **09/08/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1008&version=20170AB100893AMD)
+8. **10/14/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1008&version=20170AB100891CHP)
+9. **AB1008** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1008)
+10. **09/19/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB1008&version=20170AB100892ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **3–1** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended. — **11–6** (pass) · lower
+- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+- 3rd Reading AB1008 McCarty et al. By Bradford — **27–13** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–2** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass as amended — **5–2** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–1** (pass) · upper
+- AB 1008 MCCARTY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **42–30** (pass) · lower
+- AB 1008 MCCARTY Assembly Third Reading — **41–33** (pass) · lower
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- McCarty — primary (person)
+- Bradford — principal coauthor (person)
+- Gipson — author (person)
+- Holden — author (person)
+- Reyes — author (person)
+- Weber — author (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2017-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
+- **2017-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
+- **2017-03-09** Referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-05-01** 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, reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2017-05-02** Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-05-03** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (May 3). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2017-05-17** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-05-26** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 11. Noes 6.) (May 26). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
+- **2017-05-30** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
+- **2017-05-30** Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 52. Noes 24. Page 1776.)
+- **2017-05-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2017-06-01** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 41. Noes 33. Page 2071.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2017-06-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
+- **2017-06-14** Referred to Coms. on L. & I.R. and JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-06-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction`
+- **2017-06-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2017-07-17** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (July 11). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
+- **2017-07-18** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
+- **2017-08-21** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
+- **2017-09-01** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (September 1). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
+- **2017-09-01** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
+- **2017-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2017-09-08** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2017-09-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2017-09-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 13. Page 2855.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2017-09-14** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
+- **2017-09-15** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 42. Noes 30. Page 3483.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2017-09-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
+- **2017-10-14** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2017-10-14** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 789, Statutes of 2017.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6a350cb4-2053-40ed-a008-8618730a2879`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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