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Bill	Discrimination in employment: reasonable accommodations.	Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, 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, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, or sexual orientation. Specifically, an employer or other covered entity is required to reasonably accommodate the religious belief or observance of an individual unless the accommodation would be an undue hardship on the conduct of the business of the employer or other entity.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 1964	California AB 1964 (20112012)	bill	Discrimination in employment: reasonable accommodations.	enacted	Yamada	9	30	7	2012-02-23	2012-09-08	openstates	ocd-bill/f907d96d-76f0-4d92-96a9-6cfa3aa4e656	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB1964	d702dd178aa018cf694dcfb029808c015ea600a589e1a96d4ca5fafc0fd052ec	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1964 (20112012) — Discrimination in employment: reasonable accommodations.

Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, 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, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, or sexual orientation. Specifically, an employer or other covered entity is required to reasonably accommodate the religious belief or observance of an individual unless the accommodation would be an undue hardship on the conduct of the business of the employer or other entity.

Version chain

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

1. 02/23/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/29/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/16/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 04/30/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/18/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/21/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/08/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1964 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/05/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Judiciary. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1964 Yamada By Corbett — 32–4 (pass) · upper
• AB 1964 YAMADA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 67–6 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 14–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 1964 YAMADA Assembly Third Reading — 63–6 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 3–1 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Yamada — primary (person)
• Allen — coauthor (person)
• Bonnie Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
• Cedillo — coauthor (person)
• Corbett — coauthor (person)
• DeSaulnier — coauthor (person)
• Dickinson — coauthor (person)
• Fong — coauthor (person)
• La Malfa — coauthor (person)
• Lieu — coauthor (person)
• Rubio — coauthor (person)
• Steinberg — coauthor (person)
• Yee — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-23 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2012-02-24 From printer. May be heard in committee March 25.
• 2012-03-29 Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-03-29 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
• 2012-04-09 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2012-04-16 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
• 2012-04-17 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2012-04-19 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (April 18). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-26 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 24). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-30 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-01 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2012-05-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 1.) (May 16). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-05-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 63. Noes 6. Page 5033.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2012-06-07 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2012-06-15 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2012-06-18 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 1.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-06 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2012-08-07 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-21 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 32. Noes 4. Page 4871.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2012-08-29 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6488.)
• 2012-08-29 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 67. Noes 6. Page 6510.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-09-06 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:55 p.m.
• 2012-09-08 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-08 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 287, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/f907d96d-76f0-4d92-96a9-6cfa3aa4e656. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).