---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employment: leave: interference, restraint, and denial."
description: "Existing law, the Moore-Brown-Roberti Family Rights Act, 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) to bond with a child who was born to, adopted by, or placed for foster care with, the employee, (2) to care for the employee's parent, spouse, or child 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: "20112012"
identifier: "AB 592"
citation: "California AB 592 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Employment: leave: interference", "restraint", "and denial."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Lara"]
version_count: 7
action_count: 23
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2011-02-16"
last_action: "2011-10-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2adbe514-34b6-4a18-9bd8-a873c9cca063"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB592"
source_hash: "4c18846210e946a819e2c442166bc206456b701c7ca95440cdc5ae2561328e35"
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 592 (20112012) — Employment: leave: interference, restraint, and denial.

Existing law, the Moore-Brown-Roberti Family Rights Act, 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) to bond with a child who was born to, adopted by, or placed for foster care with, the employee, (2) to care for the employee's parent, spouse, or child 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. **02/16/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB592&version=20110AB59299INT)
2. **04/25/11 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB592&version=20110AB59298AMD)
3. **07/01/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB592&version=20110AB59297AMD)
4. **08/31/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB592&version=20110AB59296AMD)
5. **10/09/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB592&version=20110AB59294CHP)
6. **AB592** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB592)
7. **09/16/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB592&version=20110AB59295ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **5–1** (pass) · lower
- AB 592 LARA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **60–19** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB592 Lara By Evans — **23–12** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **12–5** (pass) · lower
- AB 592 LARA Assembly Third Reading — **61–17** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Lara — primary (person)
- Ammiano — coauthor (person)
- Padilla — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-16** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2011-02-17** From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
- **2011-03-03** Referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-25** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-04-25** Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
- **2011-05-05** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (May 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 18). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-19** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-05-23** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 17. Page 1507.) `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-05-23** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-02** Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. `referral-committee`
- **2011-06-23** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-07-01** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-07-11** From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. `committee-passage`
- **2011-07-12** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-08-31** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-01** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-09-07** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 12. Page 2348.). `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-09-07** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
- **2011-09-08** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 19. Page 3076.). `committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage`
- **2011-09-20** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
- **2011-10-09** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-10-09** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 678, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2adbe514-34b6-4a18-9bd8-a873c9cca063`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).