---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workers' compensation: security deposits."
description: "Workers' compensation: security deposits."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 176"
citation: "California AB 176 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Workers' compensation: security deposits."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Nation"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 19
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2001-02-06"
last_action: "2001-07-19"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/78b57472-ba3b-4a55-877e-d6c299628aa2"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB176"
source_hash: "3a325a8576d81f7237b517f29081c3c8f22cc9fa6ab8354aa187d1bf74f276f2"
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 176 (20012002) — Workers' compensation: security deposits.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/06/01 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB176&version=20010AB17699INT)
2. **04/19/01 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB176&version=20010AB17698AMD)
3. **07/19/01 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB176&version=20010AB17696CHP)
4. **AB176** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB176)
5. **07/05/01 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB176&version=20010AB17697ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 176 Nation Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB176 Nation — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Nation — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2001-07-19** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 73, Statutes of 2001.
- **2001-07-18** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2001-07-10** Enrolled and to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
- **2001-07-09** In Assembly. To enrollment.
- **2001-07-05** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1853.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-07-02** Read second time. To Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-06-28** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2001-06-12** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2001-05-15** Referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2001-05-03** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2001-05-03** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 75. Noes 0. Page 1407.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2001-04-30** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2001-04-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (April 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2001-04-24** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2001-04-19** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Insurance Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2001-04-04** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2001-02-13** Referred to Standing Committee on Insurance. `referral-committee`
- **2001-02-07** From printer. May be heard in committee March 9.
- **2001-02-06** 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/78b57472-ba3b-4a55-877e-d6c299628aa2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).