---
type: "Bill"
title: "Grocery workers."
description: "Existing law regulates various aspects of the workplace and employee safety and health."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20152016"
identifier: "AB 897"
citation: "California AB 897 (20152016)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Grocery workers."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gonzalez"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 24
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2015-02-26"
last_action: "2015-09-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/42ec3f9b-4e32-4d0a-8de7-f2b329ddba0e"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB897"
source_hash: "c3f780ac00883406b5e9171222a3fe11d6d8167d806aecf69689e178be5dcd70"
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 897 (20152016) — Grocery workers.

Existing law regulates various aspects of the workplace and employee safety and health.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/26/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB897&version=20150AB89799INT)
2. **04/22/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB897&version=20150AB89798AMD)
3. **05/06/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB897&version=20150AB89797AMD)
4. **08/20/15 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB897&version=20150AB89796AMD)
5. **09/21/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB897&version=20150AB89794CHP)
6. **AB897** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB897)
7. **09/04/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB897&version=20150AB89795ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading AB897 Gonzalez By Leyva — **24–10** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. To Consent Calendar. — **15–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 897 GONZALEZ Consent Calendar Second Day — **76–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 897 GONZALEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **63–15** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Gonzalez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2015-02-26** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2015-02-27** From printer. May be heard in committee March 29.
- **2015-03-16** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-04-23** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-04-30** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2015-05-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-07** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-05-12** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (May 12). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-20** From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 15. Noes 0.) (May 20). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2015-05-21** Read second time. Ordered to Consent Calendar. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-05-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 76. Noes 0. Page 1595.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2015-06-04** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2015-08-20** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-24** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2015-08-24** Ordered to second reading.
- **2015-08-25** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2015-08-31** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 24. Noes 10. Page 2301.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2015-08-31** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 2 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2015-09-02** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 63. Noes 15. Page 2772.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2015-09-15** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2015-09-21** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2015-09-21** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 305, Statutes of 2015.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/42ec3f9b-4e32-4d0a-8de7-f2b329ddba0e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).