---
type: "Bill"
title: "Joint Enforcement Strike Force on the Underground Economy: Labor Enforcement Task Force."
description: "Existing law, until January 1, 2019, established the Revenue Recovery and Collaborative Enforcement Team as a pilot program consisting of a team of agencies charged with specified duties that included developing a plan to document, review, and evaluate data and complaints, evaluating the benefits of a processing center to receive and analyze data, share complaints, and research leads, and providing agencies with investigative leads to combat criminal tax evasion associated with the underground economy."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20192020"
identifier: "AB 1296"
citation: "California AB 1296 (20192020)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Joint Enforcement Strike Force on the Underground Economy: Labor Enforcement Task Force."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Gonzalez"]
version_count: 9
action_count: 32
vote_count: 10
first_action: "2019-02-22"
last_action: "2019-10-08"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c84c1bcb-d2f2-44f8-a6b1-fe458f2e2323"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1296"
source_hash: "f65d1a50d5559564ffae5d112cca78e764d636a8e15914d44ef60690b6179ddd"
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 1296 (20192020) — Joint Enforcement Strike Force on the Underground Economy: Labor Enforcement Task Force.

Existing law, until January 1, 2019, established the Revenue Recovery and Collaborative Enforcement Team as a pilot program consisting of a team of agencies charged with specified duties that included developing a plan to document, review, and evaluate data and complaints, evaluating the benefits of a processing center to receive and analyze data, share complaints, and research leads, and providing agencies with investigative leads to combat criminal tax evasion associated with the underground economy.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/22/19 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1296&version=20190AB129699INT)
2. **04/24/19 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1296&version=20190AB129698AMD)
3. **06/21/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1296&version=20190AB129697AMD)
4. **08/13/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1296&version=20190AB129696AMD)
5. **09/06/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1296&version=20190AB129695AMD)
6. **09/10/19 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1296&version=20190AB129694AMD)
7. **10/08/19 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1296&version=20190AB129692CHP)
8. **AB1296** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1296)
9. **09/20/19 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201920200AB1296&version=20190AB129693ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Revenue and Taxation] with recommendation: To Consent Calendar — **8–0** (pass) · lower
- Placed on suspense file — **5–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1296 Gonzalez Assembly Third Reading — **77–0** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1296 Gonzalez By Galgiani — **40–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Governance and Finance] — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **18–0** (pass) · lower
- AB 1296 Gonzalez Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **78–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **7–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Gonzalez — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2019-02-22** Introduced. To print. `introduction`
- **2019-02-23** From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
- **2019-02-25** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2019-03-11** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and REV. & TAX. `referral-committee`
- **2019-04-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on REV. & TAX. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 8. Noes 0.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on REV. & TAX. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-04-23** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 22). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-04-24** Read second time and amended. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-04-25** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-08** In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-16** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 18. Noes 0.) (May 16). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-05-29** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 77. Noes 0. Page 2079.) `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-05-30** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2019-06-12** Referred to Coms. on PUB. S. and GOV. & F. `referral-committee`
- **2019-06-21** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-07-02** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on GOV. & F. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 2). Re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-12** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (July 10). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, amendment-introduction`
- **2019-08-13** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-1, reading-2, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2019-08-19** In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2019-08-30** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 30). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
- **2019-08-30** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-06** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-10** Joint Rule 61 suspended. (Ayes 29. Noes 8. Page 2745.)
- **2019-09-10** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-11** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2019-09-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 40. Noes 0. Page 2936.). `passage, reading-3, reading-1`
- **2019-09-13** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2019-09-14** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3584.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2019-09-26** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2019-10-08** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2019-10-08** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 626, Statutes of 2019.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c84c1bcb-d2f2-44f8-a6b1-fe458f2e2323`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).