republic-os/legislation/us/states/ca/20132014/ab-2751.md

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Bill	Retaliation.	Existing law prohibits an employer from discharging an employee or in any manner discriminating, retaliating, or taking any adverse action against any employee or applicant for employment because the employee or applicant has engaged in protected conduct, as specified. Existing law provides that an employee who made a bona fide complaint, and was consequently discharged or otherwise suffered an adverse action, is entitled to reinstatement and reimbursement for lost wages. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for an employer to willfully refuse to reinstate or otherwise restore an employee who is determined by a specified procedure to be eligible for reinstatement. Existing law subjects a person who violates these provisions to a civil penalty of up to $10,000 per violation.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 2751	California AB 2751 (20132014)	bill	Retaliation.	enacted	Roger Hernández	6	19	5	2014-03-13	2014-06-28	openstates	ocd-bill/be3cdc1b-eabb-4605-becc-ddc690fdf26a	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB2751	1dde45359ea25477fe37c354b26bff3564fcea21da32d97e4d86465daf921b44	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2751 (20132014) — Retaliation.

Existing law prohibits an employer from discharging an employee or in any manner discriminating, retaliating, or taking any adverse action against any employee or applicant for employment because the employee or applicant has engaged in protected conduct, as specified. Existing law provides that an employee who made a bona fide complaint, and was consequently discharged or otherwise suffered an adverse action, is entitled to reinstatement and reimbursement for lost wages. Existing law makes it a misdemeanor for an employer to willfully refuse to reinstate or otherwise restore an employee who is determined by a specified procedure to be eligible for reinstatement. Existing law subjects a person who violates these provisions to a civil penalty of up to $10,000 per violation.

Version chain

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

1. 03/13/14 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/28/14 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 05/28/14 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/28/14 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB2751 (committee substitute) — source
6. 06/24/14 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB2751 Roger Hernández By Lara — 27–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 5–1 (pass) · lower
• Do pass. — 5–1 (pass) · upper
• AB 2751 HERNÁNDEZ Assembly Third Reading — 54–19 (pass) · lower
• AB 2751 HERNÁNDEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 57–4 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Roger Hernández — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2014-03-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2014-03-14 From printer. May be heard in committee April 13.
• 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
• 2014-05-08 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (May 7). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-05-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-05-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 54. Noes 19. Page 4964.) 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 JUD. referral-committee
• 2014-05-28 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1, referral-committee
• 2014-06-11 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 1.) (June 10). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2014-06-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2014-06-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 27. Noes 1. Page 4020.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2014-06-19 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after June 21 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2014-06-23 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 57. Noes 4. Page 5648.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2014-06-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 2:30 p.m.
• 2014-06-28 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2014-06-28 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 79, Statutes of 2014.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/be3cdc1b-eabb-4605-becc-ddc690fdf26a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).