---
type: "Bill"
title: "Unlawful employment practice: parental leave."
description: "Existing law, the Moore-Brown-Roberti Family Rights Act, or California Family Rights Act (CFRA) , makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer, as defined, to refuse to grant a request by an eligible employee to take up to 12 workweeks of unpaid protected leave during any 12-month period (1) for reason of a child born to, adopted by, or placed for foster care with, the employee, (2) to care for the employee's parent or spouse who has a serious health condition, as defined, or (3) because the employee is suffering from a serious health condition rendering him or her unable to perform the functions of the job."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20172018"
identifier: "SB 63"
citation: "California SB 63 (20172018)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Unlawful employment practice: parental leave."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Jackson"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 33
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2016-12-22"
last_action: "2017-10-12"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a9253c40-1901-408a-9c3c-6ee6dc958106"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB63"
source_hash: "c82ffea239b319c01f32d50a30fdbfc82e7742fd940fb6c8087d1b9591c47be0"
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 SB 63 (20172018) — Unlawful employment practice: parental leave.

Existing law, the Moore-Brown-Roberti Family Rights Act, or California Family Rights Act (CFRA) , makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer, as defined, to refuse to grant a request by an eligible employee to take up to 12 workweeks of unpaid protected leave during any 12-month period (1) for reason of a child born to, adopted by, or placed for foster care with, the employee, (2) to care for the employee's parent or spouse who has a serious health condition, as defined, or (3) because the employee is suffering from a serious health condition rendering him or her unable to perform the functions of the job.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/22/16 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB63&version=20170SB6399INT)
2. **03/23/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB63&version=20170SB6398AMD)
3. **04/17/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB63&version=20170SB6397AMD)
4. **05/26/17 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB63&version=20170SB6396AMD)
5. **07/13/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB63&version=20170SB6395AMD)
6. **09/08/17 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB63&version=20170SB6394AMD)
7. **10/12/17 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB63&version=20170SB6392CHP)
8. **SB63** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB63)
9. **09/15/17 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201720180SB63&version=20170SB6393ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading SB63 Jackson et al. — **25–13** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB63 Jackson et al. Concurrence — **25–13** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **4–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **4–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **5–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–1** (pass) · lower
- SB 63 Jackson Senate Third Reading By GONZALEZ FLETCHER — **51–15** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **10–6** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Jackson — primary (person)
- Atkins — principal coauthor (person)
- Chiu — coauthor (person)
- Cristina Garcia — principal coauthor (person)
- Friedman — principal coauthor (person)
- Gonzalez Fletcher — principal coauthor (person)
- Leyva — principal coauthor (person)
- Limón — principal coauthor (person)
- Reyes — principal coauthor (person)
- Skinner — principal coauthor (person)
- Thurmond — coauthor (person)
- Wiener — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2016-12-22** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2016-12-27** From printer. May be acted upon on or after January 26.
- **2017-01-04** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2017-01-12** Referred to Coms. on L. & I.R. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-09** Set for hearing March 22.
- **2017-03-22** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 445.) (March 22). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2017-03-23** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2017-03-28** Set for hearing April 4.
- **2017-04-06** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 625.) (April 4). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2017-04-17** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-2, referral-committee, reading-1`
- **2017-04-18** Set for hearing April 24.
- **2017-04-24** April 24 hearing: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2017-05-19** Set for hearing May 25.
- **2017-05-25** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 1177.) (May 25). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
- **2017-05-26** Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, amendment-passage, reading-2`
- **2017-05-26** Published May 26 at 10 a.m.
- **2017-05-30** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 25. Noes 13. Page 1252.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-05-31** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2017-06-08** Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2017-06-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-06-28** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (June 27). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2017-07-13** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, referral-committee, amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1`
- **2017-07-19** July 19 set for first hearing. Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2017-09-01** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 10. Noes 6.) (September 1). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2017-09-05** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2017-09-08** Read third time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2017-09-08** Ordered to third reading.
- **2017-09-12** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 51. Noes 15. Page 3207.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
- **2017-09-13** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2017-09-13** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 25. Noes 13. Page 2843.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2017-09-19** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2017-10-12** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2017-10-12** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 686, Statutes of 2017.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a9253c40-1901-408a-9c3c-6ee6dc958106`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).