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Bill	Crimes: public safety omnibus.	(1) Existing law requires that any employer who willfully fails to pay and has the ability to pay a final court judgment or final order issued by the Labor Commissioner for all wages due to an employee who has been discharged or who has quit within 90 days of the date that the judgment was entered or the order became final is guilty of a misdemeanor. If the total amount of wages due is less than $1,000, upon conviction, the employer is required to be fined not less than $1,000 nor more than $10,000, or imprisoned in a county jail for not more than 6 months, for each offense. Under existing law, a misdemeanor, unless otherwise specified, is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding 6 months, or a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 1144	California SB 1144 (20112012)	bill	Crimes: public safety omnibus.	enacted	Strickland	9	28	6	2012-02-21	2012-09-30	openstates	ocd-bill/ff064862-6a54-4f36-a18d-c00bc209f349	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB1144	cc2c189204ef1d7ea6ee6d42c3995c1518000c89c3c4225be994a8d177685e33	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 1144 (20112012) — Crimes: public safety omnibus.

(1) Existing law requires that any employer who willfully fails to pay and has the ability to pay a final court judgment or final order issued by the Labor Commissioner for all wages due to an employee who has been discharged or who has quit within 90 days of the date that the judgment was entered or the order became final is guilty of a misdemeanor. If the total amount of wages due is less than $1,000, upon conviction, the employer is required to be fined not less than $1,000 nor more than $10,000, or imprisoned in a county jail for not more than 6 months, for each offense. Under existing law, a misdemeanor, unless otherwise specified, is punishable by imprisonment in a county jail not exceeding 6 months, or a fine not exceeding $1,000, or by both that fine and imprisonment.

Version chain

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

1. 02/21/12 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/18/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/21/12 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/14/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/20/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/16/12 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/30/12 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. SB1144 (committee substitute) — source
9. 08/27/12 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• SB 1144 Strickland Consent Calendar Second Day — 79–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 6–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Unfinished Business SB1144 Strickland Concurrence — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Strickland — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2012-02-21 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2012-02-22 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 23.
• 2012-03-01 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-03-09 Set for hearing April 24.
• 2012-04-18 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-04-25 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 7. Noes 0. Page 3311.) (April 24). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-04-26 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-21 Read third time and amended. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-05-21 Ordered to second reading.
• 2012-05-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-22 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. referral-committee
• 2012-05-23 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2012-05-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-05-29 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 3645.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-05-30 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2012-06-07 Referred to Com. on PUB. S. referral-committee
• 2012-06-14 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-20 From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on PUB. S. reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee
• 2012-06-27 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: To consent calendar. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 26). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-15 From committee: Do pass as amended. Ordered to consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (August 8). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2012-08-16 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-20 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2012-08-22 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 79. Noes 0. Page 6148.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2012-08-22 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2012-08-23 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4763.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2012-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2012-09-30 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2012-09-30 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 867, Statutes of 2012.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/ff064862-6a54-4f36-a18d-c00bc209f349. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).