republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/sb-299.md

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Bill	Employment: pregnancy or childbirth leave.	Existing law prohibits employment discrimination based on sex or disability.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20112012	SB 299	California SB 299 (20112012)	bill	Employment: pregnancy or childbirth leave.	enacted	Evans	6	26	8	2011-02-14	2011-10-06	openstates	ocd-bill/e36cca13-af2c-4c4e-9998-a5287e4deffc	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB299	3b1914bd3ea848ad71f17a9885f33b72a79318e9e6444cb43655a005d4c6d4f9	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California SB 299 (20112012) — Employment: pregnancy or childbirth leave.

Existing law prohibits employment discrimination based on sex or disability.

Version chain

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

1. 02/14/11 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 08/26/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 08/31/11 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/06/11 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. SB299 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/12/11 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading — 27–11 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• Unfinished Business SB299 Evans Concurrence — 27–9 (pass) · upper
• SB 299 Evans Senate Third Reading By LOWENTHAL — 52–26 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 6–3 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 4–2 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Evans — primary (person)
• Ammiano — coauthor (person)
• Blumenfield — coauthor (person)
• Bonnie Lowenthal — coauthor (person)
• Brownley — coauthor (person)
• Huffman — coauthor (person)
• Leno — coauthor (person)
• Skinner — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2011-02-14 Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. introduction, reading-1
• 2011-02-15 From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 17.
• 2011-02-24 Referred to Coms. on L. & I.R. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2011-03-16 Set for hearing March 23.
• 2011-03-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 2. Page 452.) (March 23). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-03-29 Set for hearing April 5.
• 2011-04-06 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1. Page 559.) (April 5). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-04-13 Set for hearing May 2.
• 2011-05-03 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 3. Page 846.) (May 2). committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-05-04 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-05-31 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 27. Noes 11. Page 1170.) Ordered to the Assembly. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-06-01 In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. reading-1
• 2011-06-09 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2011-06-23 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 2.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-07-13 Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2011-08-26 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 25). amendment-passage, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable
• 2011-08-26 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-29 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2011-08-31 Read third time and amended. (Page 2710.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2011-08-31 Ordered to third reading.
• 2011-09-06 Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 52. Noes 26. Page 2931.) Ordered to the Senate. reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2011-09-07 In Senate. Concurrence in Assembly amendments pending.
• 2011-09-08 Assembly amendments concurred in. (Ayes 27. Noes 9. Page 2403.) Ordered to engrossing and enrolling. committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2011-09-14 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 11:30 a.m.
• 2011-10-06 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2011-10-06 Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 510, Statutes of 2011.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e36cca13-af2c-4c4e-9998-a5287e4deffc. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).