---
type: "Bill"
title: "Harassment: liability of employees."
description: "Harassment: liability of employees."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "19992000"
identifier: "AB 1856"
citation: "California AB 1856 (19992000)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Harassment: liability of employees."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Kuehl"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2000-02-07"
last_action: "2000-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/72d98f15-bb6f-4c21-be17-19f03ae01699"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1856"
source_hash: "9747be08c73316c696589d5ed5d5884858006493091a56b9adff254d3580da76"
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 1856 (19992000) — Harassment: liability of employees.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **02/07/00 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1856&version=19990AB185699INT)
2. **04/04/00 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1856&version=19990AB185698AMD)
3. **09/30/00 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1856&version=19990AB185696CHP)
4. **AB1856** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1856)
5. **08/22/00 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=199920000AB1856&version=19990AB185697ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 3rd Reading AB1856 Kuehl By Burton — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 1856 KUEHL THIRD READING — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Kuehl — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2000-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 1047, Statutes of 2000.
- **2000-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2000-08-30** Enrolled and to the Governor at 1:30 p.m.
- **2000-08-22** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2000-08-22** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 12. Page 5867.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-08-10** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-08-09** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2000-07-06** Joint Rule 61 (b)(12) suspended.
- **2000-06-29** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Re-referred. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2000-06-08** Referred to I.R. and Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2000-06-05** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2000-06-01** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 42. Noes 31. Page 6979.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2000-05-30** Passed on file.
- **2000-04-13** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2000-04-12** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 5.) (April 11). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2000-04-06** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2000-04-04** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Judiciary Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2000-02-15** Referred to Standing Committee on Judiciary. `referral-committee`
- **2000-02-08** From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
- **2000-02-07** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/72d98f15-bb6f-4c21-be17-19f03ae01699`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).