Employment discrimination or harassment: education and training: abusive conduct.
Existing law makes specified employment practices unlawful, including the harassment of an employee directly by the employer or indirectly by agents of the employer with the employer's knowledge. Existing law further requires every employer to act to ensure a workplace free of sexual harassment by implementing certain minimum requirements, including posting sexual harassment information posters at the workplace and obtaining and making available an information sheet on sexual harassment.
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20132014
AB 2053
California AB 2053 (20132014)
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Employment discrimination or harassment: education and training: abusive conduct.
California AB 2053 (20132014) — Employment discrimination or harassment: education and training: abusive conduct.
Existing law makes specified employment practices unlawful, including the harassment of an employee directly by the employer or indirectly by agents of the employer with the employer's knowledge. Existing law further requires every employer to act to ensure a workplace free of sexual harassment by implementing certain minimum requirements, including posting sexual harassment information posters at the workplace and obtaining and making available an information sheet on sexual harassment.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
2014-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
2014-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
2014-03-03 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
2014-04-24 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 23). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
2014-05-07 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 14. Noes 3.) (May 7). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
2014-05-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2014-05-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 58. Noes 18. Page 4956.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
2014-05-15 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
2014-05-22 Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. referral-committee
2014-06-04 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
2014-06-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 0.) (June 25). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
2014-08-04 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
2014-08-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
2014-08-13 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 25. Noes 8. Page 4458.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
2014-08-13 In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. committee-passage
2014-08-19 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
2014-09-09 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
2014-09-09 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 306, Statutes of 2014.
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/8744dc07-9fb4-44d3-bb1c-e00c0b626f1a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).