republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20112012/sb-826.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "Workers' compensation: data reporting requirement: administrative penalties."
description: "Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of his or her employment. Existing law requires the administrative director to develop a cost-efficient workers' compensation information system and requires the administrative director to adopt regulations specifying the data elements to be collected by electronic data interchange."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
legislature: "California Legislature"
session: "20112012"
identifier: "SB 826"
citation: "California SB 826 (20112012)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Workers' compensation: data reporting requirement: administrative penalties."]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Leno"]
version_count: 5
action_count: 24
vote_count: 7
first_action: "2011-02-18"
last_action: "2011-10-07"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1dfa17e9-663d-47ab-8bcd-2b63c58980fc"
source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB826"
source_hash: "d2c9f5e5d073985acbaac70ff70234241660741e5728aa96753c6578617cce68"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
---

# California SB 826 (20112012) — Workers' compensation: data reporting requirement: administrative penalties.

Existing law establishes a workers' compensation system, administered by the Administrative Director of the Division of Workers' Compensation, to compensate an employee for injuries sustained in the course of his or her employment. Existing law requires the administrative director to develop a cost-efficient workers' compensation information system and requires the administrative director to adopt regulations specifying the data elements to be collected by electronic data interchange.

## Version chain

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

1. **02/18/11 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB826&version=20110SB82699INT)
2. **05/03/11 - Amended Senate** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB826&version=20110SB82698AMD)
3. **10/07/11 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB826&version=20110SB82696CHP)
4. **SB826** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB826)
5. **09/01/11 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201120120SB826&version=20110SB82697ENR)

## Votes

- 3rd Reading — **31–8** (pass) · upper
- SB 826 Leno Senate Third Reading By GROVE — **66–9** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **12–5** (pass) · lower
- Do pass. — **6–2** (pass) · upper
- Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — **9–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — **6–0** (pass) · upper
- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — **11–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Leno — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2011-02-18** Introduced. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. To print. `introduction, reading-1`
- **2011-02-20** From printer. May be acted upon on or after March 22.
- **2011-03-10** Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. `referral-committee`
- **2011-04-07** Set for hearing April 13.
- **2011-04-13** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0. Page 643.) (April 13). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-04-15** Set for hearing May 2.
- **2011-04-26** Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
- **2011-04-29** Set for hearing May 9.
- **2011-05-03** From committee with author's amendments. Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `reading-2, reading-1, committee-passage, amendment-passage, referral-committee`
- **2011-05-09** Placed on APPR. suspense file.
- **2011-05-20** Set for hearing May 26.
- **2011-05-26** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 6. Noes 2. Page 1122.) (May 26). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-05-27** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-06-02** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 31. Noes 8. Page 1262.) Ordered to the Assembly. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-06-02** In Assembly. Read first time. Held at Desk. `reading-1`
- **2011-06-16** Referred to Com. on INS. `referral-committee`
- **2011-07-06** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 11. Noes 0.) (July 6). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. `referral-committee, committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-08-18** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (August 17). `committee-passage, committee-passage-favorable`
- **2011-08-22** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
- **2011-08-30** Read third time. Passed. (Ayes 66. Noes 9. Page 2690.) Ordered to the Senate. `reading-3, reading-1, passage`
- **2011-08-30** In Senate. Ordered to engrossing and enrolling.
- **2011-09-07** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
- **2011-10-07** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
- **2011-10-07** Chaptered by Secretary of State. Chapter 568, Statutes of 2011.

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1dfa17e9-663d-47ab-8bcd-2b63c58980fc`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).