---
type: "Bill"
title: "Artistic employment contracts: minors."
description: "Existing law regulates certain contracts for artistic employment between an unemancipated minor and 3rd parties, including employment as an actor, dancer, musician, comedian, singer, stunt-person, voice-over artist, or sports player. Existing law requires the minor's employer under one of these contracts to set aside 15% of the minor's gross earnings, as specified, and provides for the establishment of a trust for the purpose of preserving for the minor a portion of the minor's gross earnings, as defined."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20132014"
identifier: "AB 533"
citation: "California AB 533 (20132014)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Artistic employment contracts: minors."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ian Calderon"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 20
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2013-02-20"
last_action: "2013-08-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ecc4617a-802c-4494-9f13-b34a2a5c616d"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB533"
source_hash: "8c03095131520a7aa32d8ad35a3e2f27f483b5e6e39c79ac430c815086e75613"
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 533 (20132014) — Artistic employment contracts: minors.

Existing law regulates certain contracts for artistic employment between an unemancipated minor and 3rd parties, including employment as an actor, dancer, musician, comedian, singer, stunt-person, voice-over artist, or sports player. Existing law requires the minor's employer under one of these contracts to set aside 15% of the minor's gross earnings, as specified, and provides for the establishment of a trust for the purpose of preserving for the minor a portion of the minor's gross earnings, as defined.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/20/13 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB533&version=20130AB53399INT)
2. **04/18/13 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB533&version=20130AB53398AMD)
3. **06/03/13 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB533&version=20130AB53397AMD)
4. **08/13/13 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB533&version=20130AB53395CHP)
5. **AB533** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB533)
6. **07/01/13 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB533&version=20130AB53396ENR)

## Votes

- Consent Calendar 2nd AB533 Ian Calderon — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- AB 533 CALDERON Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Labor and Employment. — **6–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 533 CALDERON Consent Calendar Second Day — **70–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be placed on the Consent Calendar. — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ian Calderon — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2013-02-20** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2013-02-21** From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
- **2013-03-04** Referred to Coms. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. and L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-18** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-04-22** Re-referred to Com. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. `referral-committee`
- **2013-04-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-09** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (May 8). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-05-13** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-05-16** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 1480.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-05-16** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2013-05-29** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2013-06-03** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee`
- **2013-06-11** From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 11). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2013-06-12** Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2013-06-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1488.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2013-06-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2013-06-27** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 2194.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2013-08-01** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:45 p.m.
- **2013-08-13** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2013-08-13** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 102, Statutes of 2013.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ecc4617a-802c-4494-9f13-b34a2a5c616d`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).