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Bill	Labor contracting: client liability.	Existing law regulates the terms and conditions of employment and establishes specified obligations of employers to employees. Existing law prohibits a person or entity from entering into a contract for labor or services with a construction, farm labor, garment, janitorial, security guard, or warehouse contractor, if the person or entity knows or should know that the contract or agreement does not include sufficient funds for the contractor to comply with laws or regulations governing the labor or services to be provided.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 1897	California AB 1897 (20132014)	bill	Labor contracting: client liability.	enacted	Roger Hernández	11	32	10	2014-02-19	2014-09-28	openstates	ocd-bill/24180f6d-3c81-4415-b0f5-e1a1b3c1b19c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB1897	4f15b352a72d1659c90af500138b87336cd3524ba0be99eee05ce68b0b2ac6b8	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1897 (20132014) — Labor contracting: client liability.

Existing law regulates the terms and conditions of employment and establishes specified obligations of employers to employees. Existing law prohibits a person or entity from entering into a contract for labor or services with a construction, farm labor, garment, janitorial, security guard, or warehouse contractor, if the person or entity knows or should know that the contract or agreement does not include sufficient funds for the contractor to comply with laws or regulations governing the labor or services to be provided.

Version chain

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

1. 02/19/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/10/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/23/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 05/28/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
6. 07/01/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 08/19/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/22/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/28/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
10. AB1897 (committee substitute) — source
11. 09/04/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass as amended. — 5–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 12–5 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1897 Roger Hernández By Hueso — 22–12 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Judiciary. — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Placed on Appropriations Suspense file. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended, and re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 1897 HERNÁNDEZ Assembly Third Reading — 51–23 (pass) · lower
• AB 1897 HERNÁNDEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 47–24 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on Appropriations. — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• AB 1897 HERNÁNDEZ Assembly Third Reading Amend By HERNÁNDEZ Set #1 — 51–25 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Roger Hernández — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-02-19 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2014-02-20 From printer. May be heard in committee March 22.
• 2014-03-28 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2014-03-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-01 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2014-04-10 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-04-21 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2014-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-05-07 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2014-05-23 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 12. Noes 5.) (May 23). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-23 Read second time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-28 Read third time and amended. Ordered to third reading. (Ayes 51. Noes 25. Page 5255.) reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-05-29 Assembly Rule 69(d) suspended. (Ayes 55. Noes 21. Page 5325.)
• 2014-05-29 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 23. Page 5349.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-05-29 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2014-06-05 Referred to Coms. on L. & I.R. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2014-06-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2014-06-30 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (June 24). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-07-01 Read second time and amended. Re-referred to Com. on APPR. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-08-04 In committee: Placed on APPR. suspense file.
• 2014-08-18 From committee: Do pass as amended. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (August 14). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-19 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-22 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2014-08-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-08-27 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 12. Page 4921.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-08-28 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 30 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-08-28 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Page 6667.)
• 2014-08-28 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 47. Noes 24. Page 6682.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-09-10 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2014-09-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-09-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 728, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/24180f6d-3c81-4415-b0f5-e1a1b3c1b19c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).