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Bill	Fair Employment and Housing Act: military veterans.	(1) Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, protects and safeguards the right and opportunity of all persons to seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination or abridgment on account of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, or sexual orientation.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20132014	AB 556	California AB 556 (20132014)	bill	Fair Employment and Housing Act: military veterans.	enacted	Salas	6	25	7	2013-02-20	2013-10-10	openstates	ocd-bill/23bd8332-a9e7-4978-ae2e-bbca2b824648	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201320140AB556	52e389469d880cfc3b7da971c469045fcb6b6991956c759518d05586701f070f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 556 (20132014) — Fair Employment and Housing Act: military veterans.

(1) Existing law, the California Fair Employment and Housing Act, protects and safeguards the right and opportunity of all persons to seek, obtain, and hold employment without discrimination or abridgment on account of race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, genetic information, marital status, sex, gender, gender identity, gender expression, age, or sexual orientation.

Version chain

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

1. 02/20/13 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 04/11/13 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 09/05/13 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
4. 10/10/13 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
5. AB556 (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/16/13 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, to Consent Calendar. — 17–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 556 SALAS Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on Labor and Employment. — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB556 Salas By Hueso — 39–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and re-refer to Committee on Appropriations with recommendation: To Consent Calendar. — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but re-refer to the Committee on Appropriations. — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 556 SALAS Consent Calendar Second Day — 70–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Salas — primary (person)
• Brown — coauthor (person)
• Chávez — coauthor (person)
• Corbett — coauthor (person)
• Evans — coauthor (person)
• Hueso — coauthor (person)
• Yamada — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2013-02-20 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2013-02-21 From printer. May be heard in committee March 23.
• 2013-03-04 Referred to Coms. on JUD. and L. & E. referral-committee
• 2013-04-10 From committee: Do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 9). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2013-04-11 Read second time and amended. reading-2, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-04-15 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2013-04-25 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. with recommendation: to consent calendar. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 24). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-05-09 From committee: Do pass. To consent calendar. (Ayes 17. Noes 0.) (May 8). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2013-05-13 Read second time. Ordered to consent calendar. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-05-16 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 70. Noes 0. Page 1477.) reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-05-16 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2013-05-29 Referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee
• 2013-06-11 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (June 11). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee, committee-passage
• 2013-06-24 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2013-06-25 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-09-05 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, reading-1, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-06 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2013-09-09 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 39. Noes 0. Page 2261.). reading-3, reading-1, passage
• 2013-09-09 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after September 11 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2013-09-10 Assembly Rule 77 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 3064.)
• 2013-09-10 Assembly Rule 63 suspended. (Ayes 53. Noes 25. Page 3064.)
• 2013-09-10 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 3104.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2013-09-20 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2013-10-10 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2013-10-10 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 691, Statutes of 2013.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/23bd8332-a9e7-4978-ae2e-bbca2b824648. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).