---
type: "Bill"
title: "State employment: State Bargaining Units."
description: "(1) Existing law provides that a provision of a memorandum of understanding reached between the state employer and a recognized employee organization representing state civil service employees that requires the expenditure of funds does not become effective unless approved by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 119"
citation: "California AB 119 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill", "appropriation"]
subjects: ["State employment: State Bargaining Units."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Ting"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 25
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2018-12-03"
last_action: "2020-06-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/48967e92-e6be-4168-b8cf-58202e1f741b"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB119"
source_hash: "85db95fa60f0681e77100df28957a7054acf748eb10f26a79a7190056c2c4cbd"
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 119 (20192020) — State employment: State Bargaining Units.

(1) Existing law provides that a provision of a memorandum of understanding reached between the state employer and a recognized employee organization representing state civil service employees that requires the expenditure of funds does not become effective unless approved by the Legislature in the annual Budget Act.

## Version chain

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

1. **12/03/18 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB119&version=20190AB11999INT)
2. **03/16/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB119&version=20190AB11998AMD)
3. **06/22/20 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB119&version=20190AB11997AMD)
4. **06/29/20 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB119&version=20190AB11995CHP)
5. **AB119** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB119)
6. **06/26/20 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB119&version=20190AB11996ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass — **13–5** (pass) · upper
- AB 119 Ting Assembly Third Reading — **54–13** (pass) · lower
- AB 119 Ting Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **65–8** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading — **29–10** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Ting — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-12-03** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2018-12-04** From printer. May be heard in committee January 3.
- **2019-01-24** Referred to Com. on BUDGET. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-04** Assembly Rule 96 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 15. Page 1032.)
- **2019-04-04** Withdrawn from committee.
- **2019-04-04** Ordered to second reading.
- **2019-04-08** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-11** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 13. Page 1187.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-04-11** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-04-24** Referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `referral-committee`
- **2019-08-26** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2019-08-30** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2019-09-09** Senate Rule 29.3(b) suspended. (Ayes 29. Noes 7. Page 2690.)
- **2019-09-10** In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
- **2020-03-16** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-06-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on B. & F.R. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2020-06-24** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 13. Noes 5.) (June 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2020-06-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2020-06-25** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 29. Noes 10. Page 3858.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2020-06-25** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 27 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2020-06-26** Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 58. Noes 16. Page 4954.)
- **2020-06-26** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 65. Noes 8. Page 4968.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2020-06-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 6:30 p.m.
- **2020-06-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2020-06-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 23, Statutes of 2020.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/48967e92-e6be-4168-b8cf-58202e1f741b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).