---
type: "Bill"
title: "IHSS: wages: employer of record."
description: "IHSS: wages: employer of record."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 2235"
citation: "California AB 2235 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["IHSS: wages: employer of record."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Vargas"]
version_count: 10
action_count: 28
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2002-02-20"
last_action: "2002-09-30"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a10d814d-7a0d-4488-b099-092ea2f0be13"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2235"
source_hash: "2d907ce26384708e8d8a5a0dd903f25463eb9e20840caf726816449431a22cfd"
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 2235 (20012002) — IHSS: wages: employer of record.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/02 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2235&version=20010AB223599INT)
2. **04/02/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2235&version=20010AB223598AMD)
3. **04/17/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2235&version=20010AB223597AMD)
4. **05/23/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2235&version=20010AB223596AMD)
5. **06/13/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2235&version=20010AB223595AMD)
6. **08/05/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2235&version=20010AB223594AMD)
7. **08/26/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2235&version=20010AB223593AMD)
8. **09/30/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2235&version=20010AB223591CHP)
9. **AB2235** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2235)
10. **08/30/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2235&version=20010AB223592ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2235 Vargas By Burton — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2235 Vargas — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2235 Vargas Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Senate amendments be concurred in. — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Vargas — primary (person)
- Alarcon — coauthor (person)
- Alpert — coauthor (person)
- Alquist — coauthor (person)
- Burton — coauthor (person)
- Calderon — coauthor (person)
- Cardoza — coauthor (person)
- Cedillo — coauthor (person)
- Chavez — coauthor (person)
- Chu — coauthor (person)
- Correa — coauthor (person)
- Diaz — coauthor (person)
- Dickerson — coauthor (person)
- Dutra — coauthor (person)
- Escutia — coauthor (person)
- Figueroa — coauthor (person)
- Firebaugh — coauthor (person)
- Florez — coauthor (person)
- Goldberg — coauthor (person)
- Horton — coauthor (person)
- Johnson — coauthor (person)
- Keeley — coauthor (person)
- Kehoe — coauthor (person)
- Koretz — coauthor (person)
- Kuehl — coauthor (person)
- Liu — coauthor (person)
- Longville — coauthor (person)
- Margett — coauthor (person)
- Nakano — coauthor (person)
- Negrete McLeod — coauthor (person)
- O'Connell — coauthor (person)
- Peace — principal coauthor (person)
- Perata — coauthor (person)
- Robert Pacheco — coauthor (person)
- Romero — coauthor (person)
- Shelley — coauthor (person)
- Soto — coauthor (person)
- Steinberg — coauthor (person)
- Strickland — coauthor (person)
- Strom-Martin — coauthor (person)
- Thomson — coauthor (person)
- Torlakson — coauthor (person)
- Wayne — coauthor (person)
- Wright — coauthor (person)
- Wyman — coauthor (person)
- Zettel — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-09-30** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 1135, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-09-30** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-09-09** Enrolled and to the Governor at 3:30 p.m.
- **2002-08-30** From committee: With recommendation: That Senate amendments be concurred in. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (August 30). Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 52. Noes 27. Page 8635.) `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-29** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Human Services pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.2. Joint Rule 62(a) suspended. `referral-committee`
- **2002-08-28** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2002-08-28** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 11. Page 5895.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-08-27** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-08-26** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-3`
- **2002-08-07** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-08-06** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2002-08-05** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-06-20** From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations Re-referred. (Ayes 7. Noes 2.). `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2002-06-13** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on H. & H.S. `reading-1, referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-06-12** Referred to Com. on H. & H.S. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2002-05-29** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 20. Page 6550.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-05-24** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-05-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 19. Noes 5.) (May 22). Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-05-01** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2002-04-23** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Appropriations. `referral-committee`
- **2002-04-17** Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2002-04-16** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Appropriations (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (April 9). `amendment-introduction, referral-committee, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2002-04-04** Re-referred to Standing Committee on Human Services. `referral-committee`
- **2002-04-02** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Standing Committee on Human Services Read second time and amended. `reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage`
- **2002-02-28** Referred to Standing Committee on Human Services. `referral-committee`
- **2002-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2002-02-20** 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/a10d814d-7a0d-4488-b099-092ea2f0be13`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).