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Bill	Unemployment insurance.	Existing unemployment insurance law requires all standard information employee pamphlets provided by the Employment Development Department concerning unemployment and disability insurance programs to be printed in English and separately in Spanish, or both.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 1556	California AB 1556 (20132014)	bill appropriation	Unemployment insurance.	enacted	Perea	7	22	6	2014-01-27	2014-09-17	openstates	ocd-bill/2473785f-d1ca-4d4e-8a7a-a2f045b284ed	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1556	2b311a23ab2df36e1c10cd9ecf89ddfe78e611f39915ffcdb9990df9fa27d4ff	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1556 (20132014) — Unemployment insurance.

Existing unemployment insurance law requires all standard information employee pamphlets provided by the Employment Development Department concerning unemployment and disability insurance programs to be printed in English and separately in Spanish, or both.

Version chain

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

1. 01/27/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/17/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 06/04/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/17/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 09/17/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
6. AB1556 (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/22/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 8–2 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 12–4 (pass) · lower
• AB 1556 PEREA Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 54–22 (pass) · lower
• AB 1556 PEREA Assembly Third Reading — 54–21 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1556 Perea By Hueso — 22–10 (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• Perea — primary (person)
• Frazier — coauthor (person)
• Gonzalez — coauthor (person)
• Ian Calderon — coauthor (person)
• Wieckowski — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-01-27 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2014-01-28 From printer. May be heard in committee February 27.
• 2014-02-06 Referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2014-03-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on INS. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-03-18 Re-referred to Com. on INS. referral-committee
• 2014-04-02 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 8. Noes 2.) (April 2). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-04-09 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 12. Noes 4.) (April 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-04-10 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-21 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 21. Page 4471.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-04-21 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-05-08 Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. referral-committee
• 2014-06-04 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-06-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-23 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2014-06-24 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 10. Page 4606.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-19 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-21 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 54. Noes 22. Page 6272.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-09-04 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2014-09-17 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-17 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 377, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/2473785f-d1ca-4d4e-8a7a-a2f045b284ed. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).