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type: "Bill"
title: "Discrimination in employment."
description: "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."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20092010"
identifier: "AB 1814"
citation: "California AB 1814 (20092010)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Discrimination in employment."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Buchanan"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 20
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2010-02-11"
last_action: "2010-08-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0687b5c2-5c51-4e1f-8b53-1f5954efd2d4"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1814"
source_hash: "194eb9e3f39da0b6a5ce9ca8ec07025b08d02178f2b22a96de1aa0ac9f6098fa"
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 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.
1. **02/11/10 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1814&version=20090AB181499INT)
2. **04/13/10 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1814&version=20090AB181498AMD)
3. **08/13/10 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1814&version=20090AB181496CHP)
4. **AB1814** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1814)
5. **08/04/10 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=200920100AB1814&version=20090AB181497ENR)
## Votes
- Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Consent Calendar 2nd AB1814 Buchanan — **pass** (pass) · upper
- 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](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0687b5c2-5c51-4e1f-8b53-1f5954efd2d4`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).