---
type: "Bill"
title: "Professional sports teams: cheerleaders: employee status."
description: "Existing law prescribes comprehensive requirements relating to minimum wages, overtime compensation, and standards for working conditions for the protection of employees applicable to an employment relationship."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 202"
citation: "California AB 202 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Professional sports teams: cheerleaders: employee status."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gonzalez"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2015-01-29"
last_action: "2015-07-15"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f9a39a51-2330-45c8-9309-d7fe8713cf1a"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB202"
source_hash: "7120daa1d7dba8f40fc516fad321b36c1ca719cccdc41ddb77e061c909e040c4"
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 202 (20152016) — Professional sports teams: cheerleaders: employee status.

Existing law prescribes comprehensive requirements relating to minimum wages, overtime compensation, and standards for working conditions for the protection of employees applicable to an employment relationship.

## Version chain

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

1. **01/29/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB202&version=20150AB20299INT)
2. **04/06/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB202&version=20150AB20298AMD)
3. **04/15/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB202&version=20150AB20297AMD)
4. **07/15/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB202&version=20150AB20295CHP)
5. **AB202** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB202)
6. **07/02/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB202&version=20150AB20296ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Arts, Entertainment, Sports, Tourism, and Internet Media] — **5–2** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB202 Gonzalez By Leyva — **26–6** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **3–1** (pass) · upper
- AB 202 GONZALEZ Assembly Third Reading — **56–23** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **5–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **12–5** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gonzalez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-01-29** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-01-30** From printer. May be heard in committee March 1.
- **2015-02-09** Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-07** Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-09** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-04-15** 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. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-16** Re-referred to Com. on A.,E.,S.,T., & I.M. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-21** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-06** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 6). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 56. Noes 23. Page 1383.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-05-21** Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. `referral-committee`
- **2015-06-10** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (June 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-06-22** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2015-06-23** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-06-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 26. Noes 6. Page 1662.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-06-29** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
- **2015-07-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2 p.m.
- **2015-07-15** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-07-15** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 102, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f9a39a51-2330-45c8-9309-d7fe8713cf1a`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).