---
type: "Bill"
title: "Private employment: working conditions."
description: "Private employment: working conditions."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20012002"
identifier: "AB 2895"
citation: "California AB 2895 (20012002)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Private employment: working conditions."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Shelley"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 19
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2002-02-25"
last_action: "2002-09-26"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/15004f5c-7f8e-4098-b6e8-eb7b6c5f732b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2895"
source_hash: "b4450f65e317f3d7beb37031b69c2386f8e6dbea3c97e93d323cc846b37dfe93"
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 2895 (20012002) — Private employment: working conditions.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/25/02 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2895&version=20010AB289599INT)
2. **04/25/02 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2895&version=20010AB289598AMD)
3. **08/12/02 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2895&version=20010AB289597AMD)
4. **09/26/02 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2895&version=20010AB289595CHP)
5. **AB2895** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2895)
6. **08/19/02 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200120020AB2895&version=20010AB289596ENR)

## Votes

- Assembly 3rd Reading AB2895 Shelley By Kuehl — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- AB 2895 Shelley Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **pass** (pass) · upper
- AB 2895 Shelley Assembly Third Reading — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Shelley — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2002-09-26** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 934, Statutes of 2002.
- **2002-09-26** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2002-08-26** Enrolled and to the Governor at 10 a.m.
- **2002-08-19** Senate amendments concurred in. To enrollment. (Ayes 48. Noes 27. Page 7732.) `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2002-08-15** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 17 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2002-08-14** Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 12. Page 5425.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-08-13** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-08-12** Read third time, amended. To second reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-3`
- **2002-06-28** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-06-27** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 3.). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2002-05-16** Referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Industrial Relations. `referral-committee`
- **2002-05-06** In Senate. Read first time. To Standing Committee on Rules for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2002-05-06** Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 47. Noes 24. Page 5916.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2002-04-25** Read third time, amended, and returned to third reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-3`
- **2002-04-15** Read second time. To third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2002-04-11** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2002-03-11** Referred to Standing Committee on Labor and Employment. `referral-committee`
- **2002-02-26** From printer. May be heard in committee March 28.
- **2002-02-25** Joint Rule 54 (a) suspended. Assembly Rule 49(a) suspended. 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/15004f5c-7f8e-4098-b6e8-eb7b6c5f732b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).