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Bill	Employment: leave: interference, restraint, and denial.	Existing law, the Moore-Brown-Roberti Family Rights Act, makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer, as defined, to refuse to grant a request by an eligible employee to take up to 12 workweeks of unpaid protected leave during any 12-month period (1) to bond with a child who was born to, adopted by, or placed for foster care with, the employee, (2) to care for the employee's parent, spouse, or child who has a serious health condition, as defined, or (3) because the employee is suffering from a serious health condition rendering him or her unable to perform the functions of the job.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	AB 592	California AB 592 (20112012)	bill	Employment: leave: interference restraint and denial.	enacted	Lara	7	23	6	2011-02-16	2011-10-09	openstates	ocd-bill/2adbe514-34b6-4a18-9bd8-a873c9cca063	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120AB592	4c18846210e946a819e2c442166bc206456b701c7ca95440cdc5ae2561328e35	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 592 (20112012) — Employment: leave: interference, restraint, and denial.

Existing law, the Moore-Brown-Roberti Family Rights Act, makes it an unlawful employment practice for an employer, as defined, to refuse to grant a request by an eligible employee to take up to 12 workweeks of unpaid protected leave during any 12-month period (1) to bond with a child who was born to, adopted by, or placed for foster care with, the employee, (2) to care for the employee's parent, spouse, or child who has a serious health condition, as defined, or (3) because the employee is suffering from a serious health condition rendering him or her unable to perform the functions of the job.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/25/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 07/01/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 08/31/11 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 10/09/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB592 (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/16/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–1 (pass) · lower
• AB 592 LARA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 60–19 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB592 Lara By Evans — 23–12 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• AB 592 LARA Assembly Third Reading — 61–17 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Lara — primary (person)
• Ammiano — coauthor (person)
• Padilla — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2011-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 19.
• 2011-03-03 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2011-04-25 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
• 2011-04-25 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2011-05-05 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (May 4). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-18 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 18). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-19 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-23 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 61. Noes 17. Page 1507.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-05-23 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2011-06-02 Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. referral-committee
• 2011-06-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-01 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. reading-2, amendment-introduction, reading-1, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2011-07-11 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2011-07-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-31 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-09-07 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 23. Noes 12. Page 2348.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-07 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending.
• 2011-09-08 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 60. Noes 19. Page 3076.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
• 2011-10-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 678, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2adbe514-34b6-4a18-9bd8-a873c9cca063. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).