---
type: "Bill"
title: "Enforcement of civil rights: Department of Fair Employment and Housing."
description: "Existing law establishes various civil rights, and authorizes a person denied one of those rights and, for certain rights, specified state and local law enforcement agencies to bring a civil action to enforce that right within a specified amount of time."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20212022"
identifier: "SB 807"
citation: "California SB 807 (20212022)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Enforcement of civil rights: Department of Fair Employment and Housing."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Wieckowski"]
version_count: 8
action_count: 33
vote_count: 8
first_action: "2021-02-19"
last_action: "2021-09-23"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9a6607c0-7337-4d18-8d3a-aab88a86c646"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB807"
source_hash: "534a1599ab814430771a2855b36d55ebdca8dbd276b7b4fe91c43c4d6656012e"
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 807 (20212022) — Enforcement of civil rights: Department of Fair Employment and Housing.

Existing law establishes various civil rights, and authorizes a person denied one of those rights and, for certain rights, specified state and local law enforcement agencies to bring a civil action to enforce that right within a specified amount of time.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/19/21 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB807&version=20210SB80799INT)
2. **03/10/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB807&version=20210SB80798AMD)
3. **04/08/21 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB807&version=20210SB80797AMD)
4. **06/23/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB807&version=20210SB80796AMD)
5. **08/30/21 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB807&version=20210SB80795AMD)
6. **09/23/21 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB807&version=20210SB80793CHP)
7. **SB807** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB807)
8. **09/07/21 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB807&version=20210SB80794ENR)

## Votes

- Do pass — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- SB 807 Wieckowski Senate Third Reading By Chiu — **63–2** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended. — **12–0** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **9–1** (pass) · lower
- Do pass as amended, but first amend, and re-refer to the Committee on [Appropriations] — **10–0** (pass) · upper
- Placed on suspense file — **7–0** (pass) · upper
- Special Consent SB807 — **39–0** (pass) · upper
- Unfinished Business SB807 Wieckowski Concurrence — **37–0** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Wieckowski — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2021-02-19** Introduced. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction`
- **2021-02-22** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 24.
- **2021-02-22** Read first time. `reading-1`
- **2021-02-22** Art. IV. Sec. 8(a) of the Constitution dispensed with.
- **2021-02-22** (Ayes 32. Noes 4.)
- **2021-02-22** Joint Rule 55 suspended. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 272.)
- **2021-03-03** Referred to Com. on RLS. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-10** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on RLS. `amendment-passage, committee-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-03-18** Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2021-03-23** Set for hearing April 6.
- **2021-04-07** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0. Page 688.) (April 6). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-04-08** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-04-09** Set for hearing April 19.
- **2021-04-20** April 19 hearing: Placed on APPR suspense file.
- **2021-05-14** Set for hearing May 20.
- **2021-05-20** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 1205.) (May 20). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-05-20** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-05-24** Ordered to special consent calendar.
- **2021-06-01** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 1348.) Ordered to the Assembly. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-06-02** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2021-06-10** Referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee`
- **2021-06-22** From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 1.) (June 22). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-06-23** Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2, referral-committee`
- **2021-07-07** July 7 set for first hearing. Placed on suspense file.
- **2021-08-26** From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 0.) (August 26). `amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-08-30** Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-08-31** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-1, reading-2`
- **2021-09-02** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 63. Noes 2. Page 2722.) Ordered to the Senate. `passage, reading-1, reading-3`
- **2021-09-02** In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
- **2021-09-03** Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 37. Noes 0. Page 2379.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. `amendment-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2021-09-09** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 1 p.m.
- **2021-09-23** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2021-09-23** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 278, Statutes of 2021. `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9a6607c0-7337-4d18-8d3a-aab88a86c646`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).