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Bill	Local government: sexual harassment prevention training and education.	Existing law requires all local agency officials to receive training in ethics, at specified intervals, if the local agency provides any type of compensation, salary, or stipend to those officials. Existing law also requires any civil or political subdivision of the state and all cities to provide at least 2 hours of training and education regarding sexual harassment to all supervisory employees, as specified.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1661	California AB 1661 (20152016)	bill	Local government: sexual harassment prevention training and education.	enacted	McCarty	8	26	8	2016-01-13	2016-09-29	openstates	ocd-bill/80285ce2-a07e-4111-9e7c-55e8dc2dca6c	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1661	670fe35e980e26f59d683afd486ea5f65f8a506238110249dfb49c9f09f27128	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1661 (20152016) — Local government: sexual harassment prevention training and education.

Existing law requires all local agency officials to receive training in ethics, at specified intervals, if the local agency provides any type of compensation, salary, or stipend to those officials. Existing law also requires any civil or political subdivision of the state and all cities to provide at least 2 hours of training and education regarding sexual harassment to all supervisory employees, as specified.

Version chain

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

1. 01/13/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/17/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/11/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/13/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/15/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/29/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB1661 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/25/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• 3rd Reading AB1661 McCarty By Jackson — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1661 MCCARTY Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 6–0 (pass) · upper
• AB 1661 MCCARTY Assembly Third Reading — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended. — 9–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 20–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• McCarty — primary (person)
• Gonzalez — author (person)
• Jackson — coauthor (person)
• Kim — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-01-13 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-01-14 From printer. May be heard in committee February 13.
• 2016-02-04 Referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2016-03-17 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. GOV. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on L. GOV. referral-committee
• 2016-04-07 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 9. Noes 0.) (April 6). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-04-11 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-12 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-12 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. pursuant to Joint Rule 10.5. referral-committee
• 2016-05-04 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-05-27 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 27). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-27 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-31 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 5020.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-01 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee
• 2016-06-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on GOV. & F. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-22 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 6. Noes 0.) (June 22). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-01 In committee: Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-08-11 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (August 11). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time and amended. Ordered to third reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-16 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 5027.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-16 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 18 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-23 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6106.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-30 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-09-29 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-29 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 816, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/80285ce2-a07e-4111-9e7c-55e8dc2dca6c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).