---
type: "Bill"
title: "Employment: leave."
description: "(1) Existing law, commonly known as the California Family Rights Act, makes it an unlawful employment practice for a California public employer or an employer with 5 or more employees to refuse to grant a request from an employee who meets specified requirements to take up to a total of 12 workweeks in any 12-month period for family care and medical leave, as defined."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "AB 1041"
citation: "California AB 1041 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Employment: leave."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wicks"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 34
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2021-02-18"
last_action: "2022-09-29"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/ad74f02f-303a-48cc-a9d9-c8fbcd575c0c"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1041"
source_hash: "9654fb31a0cdb8863d2191f1fb030cd216020234b11a0476626c110bf290988a"
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 1041 (20212022) — Employment: leave.

(1) Existing law, commonly known as the California Family Rights Act, makes it an unlawful employment practice for a California public employer or an employer with 5 or more employees to refuse to grant a request from an employee who meets specified requirements to take up to a total of 12 workweeks in any 12-month period for family care and medical leave, as defined.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1041&version=20210AB104199INT)
2. **04/22/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1041&version=20210AB104198AMD)
3. **08/08/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1041&version=20210AB104196AMD)
4. **08/16/22 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1041&version=20210AB104195AMD)
5. **09/03/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1041&version=20210AB104197AMD)
6. **09/29/22 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1041&version=20210AB104193CHP)
7. **AB1041** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1041)
8. **08/29/22 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220AB1041&version=20210AB104194ENR)

## Votes

- AB 1041 Wicks Concurrence in Senate Amendments — **58–15** (pass) · lower
- 3rd Reading AB1041 Wicks et al. By Laird — **31–7** (pass) · upper
- AB 1041 Wicks Assembly Third Reading — **53–16** (pass) · lower
- Do pass — **5–2** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Insurance] — **5–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **4–1** (pass) · upper
- Do pass. — **12–4** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Wicks — primary (person)
- Bauer-Kahan — coauthor (person)
- Newman — coauthor (person)
- Ward — coauthor (person)
- Wiener — coauthor (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-18** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
- **2021-02-19** From printer. May be heard in committee March 21.
- **2021-03-04** Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and INS. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-08** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on INS. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 8). Re-referred to Com. on INS. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-22** From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. `amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-04-26** Re-referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-26** Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Assembly Rule 96. `referral-committee`
- **2021-04-29** In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2021-05-12** In committee: Set, second hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2021-05-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (May 20). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-24** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-05-28** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 53. Noes 16. Page 1683.) `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-05-28** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
- **2021-06-09** Referred to Com. on L., P.E. & R. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-22** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2021-07-05** In committee: Referred to suspense file. `referral-committee`
- **2021-08-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-08-26** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-09-03** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-09-07** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-09-09** Ordered to inactive file at the request of Senator Wiener.
- **2022-08-08** From inactive file.
- **2022-08-08** Ordered to second reading.
- **2022-08-08** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-09** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-16** Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-17** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2022-08-24** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 31. Noes 7. Page 5102.). `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2022-08-24** In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 26 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
- **2022-08-25** Assembly Rule 77(a) suspended.
- **2022-08-25** Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 58. Noes 15.). `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2022-08-31** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
- **2022-09-29** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2022-09-29** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 748, Statutes of 2022. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/ad74f02f-303a-48cc-a9d9-c8fbcd575c0c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).