--- type: "Bill" title: "Employers: salary information." description: "Existing law imposes various restrictions on employers with respect to applicants for employment. A violation of those restrictions is a misdemeanor." jurisdiction: "us/states/ca" legislature: "California Legislature" session: "20172018" identifier: "AB 168" citation: "California AB 168 (20172018)" classification: ["bill"] subjects: ["Employers: salary information."] status: "enacted" primary_sponsors: ["Eggman"] version_count: 7 action_count: 26 vote_count: 2 first_action: "2017-01-17" last_action: "2017-10-12" source: "openstates" source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0aae04c9-2148-4149-b223-11b293a29a8e" source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB168" source_hash: "997ba33197ea9cbc50875ac33bb39b8c41a64a288fb33d72e436093d9bb7b9f7" 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 168 (20172018) — Employers: salary information. Existing law imposes various restrictions on employers with respect to applicants for employment. A violation of those restrictions is a misdemeanor. ## Version chain The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment. 1. **01/17/17 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB168&version=20170AB16899INT) 2. **05/15/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB168&version=20170AB16898AMD) 3. **06/06/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB168&version=20170AB16897AMD) 4. **09/08/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB168&version=20170AB16896AMD) 5. **10/12/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB168&version=20170AB16894CHP) 6. **AB168** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB168) 7. **09/15/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180AB168&version=20170AB16895ENR) ## Votes - 3rd Reading AB168 Eggman et al. By Jackson — **27–10** (pass) · upper - AB 168 EGGMAN Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **57–15** (pass) · lower ## Sponsors - Eggman — primary (person) - Atkins — principal coauthor (person) - Cristina Garcia — principal coauthor (person) - Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person) - Gonzalez Fletcher — coauthor (person) - Mathis — coauthor (person) - Waldron — coauthor (person) ## Timeline The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote. - **2017-01-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1` - **2017-01-18** From printer. May be heard in committee February 17. - **2017-04-06** Referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee` - **2017-04-20** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 19). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee` - **2017-05-10** Coauthors revised. - **2017-05-10** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 6.) (May 10). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage` - **2017-05-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2017-05-15** Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1535.) `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1` - **2017-05-22** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 60. Noes 9. Page 1639.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2017-05-22** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1` - **2017-06-01** Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. `referral-committee` - **2017-06-06** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. `amendment-passage, referral-committee, reading-2, reading-1, amendment-introduction` - **2017-06-14** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on RLS. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 14). Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee` - **2017-06-21** Re-referred to Com. on P.E. & R. `referral-committee` - **2017-07-11** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) (July 10). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee` - **2017-07-17** From committee: Be ordered to second reading pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage, reading-2` - **2017-07-18** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2017-09-08** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1` - **2017-09-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1` - **2017-09-12** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 10. Page 2760.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1` - **2017-09-13** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 15 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77. - **2017-09-13** Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended. (Ayes 54. Noes 25. Page 3255.) - **2017-09-14** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 57. Noes 15. Page 3363.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage` - **2017-09-25** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12 p.m. - **2017-10-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature` - **2017-10-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 688, Statutes of 2017. ## Source OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0aae04c9-2148-4149-b223-11b293a29a8e`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).