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Bill	Employment: credit reports.	The federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and the state Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act define and regulate consumer credit reports and authorize the use of consumer credit reports for employment purposes, pursuant to specified requirements. The FCRA provides that it does not preempt state law, except as specifically provided or to the extent that state laws are inconsistent with its provisions.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 22	California AB 22 (20112012)	bill	Employment: credit reports.	enacted	Mendoza	7	26	9	2010-12-06	2011-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/a626adb5-3a38-48fa-a36b-138f8be065ad	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB22	1200bb5f00f52f587d6f294e02f093bbc0fa7f6ab89e9456f72af84ac19cedc2	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 22 (20112012) — Employment: credit reports.

The federal Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA) and the state Consumer Credit Reporting Agencies Act define and regulate consumer credit reports and authorize the use of consumer credit reports for employment purposes, pursuant to specified requirements. The FCRA provides that it does not preempt state law, except as specifically provided or to the extent that state laws are inconsistent with its provisions.

Version chain

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

1. 12/06/10 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/08/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/12/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 09/01/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/09/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB22 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/20/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 11–6 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Labor and Employment. — 6–4 (pass) · lower
• AB 22 MENDOZA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 48–28 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–1 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB22 Mendoza By DeSaulnier — 21–17 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 6–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 3–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 22 MENDOZA Assembly Third Reading — 45–29 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Mendoza — primary (person)
• Allen — coauthor (person)
• Davis — coauthor (person)
• Huffman — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2010-12-06 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2010-12-07 From printer. May be heard in committee January 6.
• 2011-02-10 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and L. & E. referral-committee
• 2011-03-08 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on JUD. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-03-09 Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-03-15 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2011-03-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. (Ayes 6. Noes 4.) (March 22). Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-14 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-05 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 11. Noes 6.) (May 4). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-09 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-12 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Page 1351.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-05-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 45. Noes 29. Page 1458.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-19 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-02 Referred to Coms. on L. & I.R. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-06-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-06-28 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 3. Noes 2.) (June 28). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-16 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 2.) (August 15). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-17 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-09-01 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-09-08 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 21. Noes 17. Page 2396.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-08 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2011-09-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 48. Noes 28. Page 3124.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-22 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 12:30 p.m.
• 2011-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 724, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a626adb5-3a38-48fa-a36b-138f8be065ad. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).