Existing law, the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) , protects and safeguards the right and opportunity of all persons to seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination or abridgment on account of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, age, or sexual orientation. FEHA provides that it does not prohibit an employer from refusing to employ an individual because of his or her age if the law compels or provides for that refusal.
California AB 1814 (20092010) — Discrimination in employment.
Existing law, the Fair Employment and Housing Act (FEHA) , protects and safeguards the right and opportunity of all persons to seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination or abridgment on account of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, age, or sexual orientation. FEHA provides that it does not prohibit an employer from refusing to employ an individual because of his or her age if the law compels or provides for that refusal.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
AB 1814 BUCHANAN Consent Calendar Second Day Regular Session — pass (pass) · lower
Do pass as amended and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — pass (pass) · lower
Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations Recommend Consent. — pass (pass) · upper
Sponsors
Buchanan — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2010-02-11 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2010-02-12 From printer. May be heard in committee March 14.
2010-02-25 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2010-03-11 In committee: Hearing postponed by committee.
2010-04-12 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended, and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 6). amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, committee-passage
2010-04-13 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
2010-04-14 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
2010-04-21 From committee: Do pass. To Consent Calendar. (April 21). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2010-04-22 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2010-04-29 Read third time, passed, and to Senate. (Ayes 74. Noes 0. Page 4941.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
2010-04-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2010-05-13 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
2010-06-10 From committee: Do pass, and re-refer to Com. on APPR with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. Re-referred. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2010-06-29 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8 and to Consent Calendar. committee-passage
2010-06-30 Read second time. To Consent Calendar. reading-2, reading-1
2010-08-02 Read third time, passed, and to Assembly. (Ayes 33. Noes 0. Page 4308.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
2010-08-02 In Assembly. To enrollment.
2010-08-06 Enrolled and to the Governor at 4:15 p.m.
2010-08-13 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2010-08-13 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 130, Statutes of 2010.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/0687b5c2-5c51-4e1f-8b53-1f5954efd2d4. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).