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+---
+type: "Bill"
+title: "Employment: human trafficking awareness."
+description: "Existing law requires specified businesses and other establishments to post a notice, as developed by the Department of Justice, that contains information relating to slavery and human trafficking, including information regarding specified nonprofit organizations that a person can call for services or support in the elimination of slavery and human trafficking."
+jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
+legislature: "California Legislature"
+session: "20172018"
+identifier: "SB 970"
+citation: "California SB 970 (20172018)"
+classification: ["bill"]
+subjects: ["Employment: human trafficking awareness."]
+status: "enacted"
+primary_sponsors: ["Atkins"]
+version_count: 6
+action_count: 30
+vote_count: 7
+first_action: "2018-01-31"
+last_action: "2018-09-27"
+source: "openstates"
+source_identifier: "ocd-bill/68a8461e-c8cf-47d3-924c-70bc446ca105"
+source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB970"
+source_hash: "4cbfb389bef3296fc2f53c1e6ad4dd116b2280eabacb190968c28b1f8eb83323"
+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 SB 970 (20172018) — Employment: human trafficking awareness.
+
+Existing law requires specified businesses and other establishments to post a notice, as developed by the Department of Justice, that contains information relating to slavery and human trafficking, including information regarding specified nonprofit organizations that a person can call for services or support in the elimination of slavery and human trafficking.
+
+## Version chain
+
+The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
+
+1. **01/31/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB970&version=20170SB97099INT)
+2. **05/01/18 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB970&version=20170SB97098AMD)
+3. **08/24/18 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB970&version=20170SB97097AMD)
+4. **09/27/18 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB970&version=20170SB97095CHP)
+5. **SB970** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB970)
+6. **09/05/18 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB970&version=20170SB97096ENR)
+
+## Votes
+
+- Consent Calendar SB970 — **38–0** (pass) · upper
+- SB 970 Atkins Senate Third Reading By SANTIAGO — **80–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **5–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · lower
+- Unfinished Business SB970 Atkins et al. Concurrence — **39–0** (pass) · upper
+- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **17–0** (pass) · lower
+- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with the recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **7–0** (pass) · upper
+
+## Sponsors
+
+- Atkins — primary (person)
+- Bates — coauthor (person)
+- Cunningham — coauthor (person)
+- Dodd — coauthor (person)
+- Galgiani — coauthor (person)
+- Leyva — coauthor (person)
+- Nguyen — coauthor (person)
+- Santiago — principal coauthor (person)
+- Waldron — coauthor (person)
+- Wiener — coauthor (person)
+
+## Timeline
+
+The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
+
+- **2018-01-31** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
+- **2018-02-01** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 3.
+- **2018-02-08** Referred to Coms. on L. & I.R. and JUD. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-03-16** Set for hearing April 11.
+- **2018-04-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 5. Noes 0. Page 4626.) (April 11). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-13** Set for hearing April 17.
+- **2018-04-18** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 4722.) (April 17). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2018-04-20** Set for hearing April 30.
+- **2018-04-26** April 30 set for first hearing canceled at the request of author.
+- **2018-04-27** Set for hearing May 7.
+- **2018-05-01** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-05-07** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and ordered to consent calendar. `committee-passage, reading-2`
+- **2018-05-08** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-05-10** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5013.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-05-10** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
+- **2018-05-25** Referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
+- **2018-06-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
+- **2018-08-15** From committee: Do pass. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 15). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
+- **2018-08-16** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-20** From consent calendar on motion of Assembly Member Calderon.
+- **2018-08-20** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2018-08-24** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-24** Ordered to third reading.
+- **2018-08-29** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 80. Noes 0. Page 6758.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
+- **2018-08-29** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
+- **2018-08-30** Ordered to special consent calendar.
+- **2018-08-30** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 6058.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
+- **2018-09-10** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
+- **2018-09-27** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
+- **2018-09-27** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 842, Statutes of 2018.
+
+## Source
+
+OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/68a8461e-c8cf-47d3-924c-70bc446ca105`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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