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Bill	Employment: property service workers.	Existing law establishes the Department of Industrial Relations in the Labor and Workforce Development Agency to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of California, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment. Existing law establishes within the department the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, which is vested with the general duty of enforcing labor laws, including those relating to wage claims and employer retaliation.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 1978	California AB 1978 (20152016)	bill	Employment: property service workers.	enacted	Gonzalez	9	30	8	2016-02-16	2016-09-15	openstates	ocd-bill/6ee5f2f3-0891-4e18-a7f6-911a814d94c3	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB1978	45a1b4dae9b72c99a99cffc404414e9a970f0427a042fd682591ffc8dc3a3b8d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 1978 (20152016) — Employment: property service workers.

Existing law establishes the Department of Industrial Relations in the Labor and Workforce Development Agency to foster, promote, and develop the welfare of the wage earners of California, to improve their working conditions, and to advance their opportunities for profitable employment. Existing law establishes within the department the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement, which is vested with the general duty of enforcing labor laws, including those relating to wage claims and employer retaliation.

Version chain

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

1. 02/16/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/15/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/13/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 05/31/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
5. 06/22/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 08/19/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
7. 09/15/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
8. AB1978 (committee substitute) — source
9. 09/01/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Placed on suspense file — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 5–2 (pass) · lower
• AB 1978 GONZALEZ Assembly Third Reading — 51–23 (pass) · lower
• 3rd Reading AB1978 Gonzalez By Leyva — 35–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 4–1 (pass) · upper
• Do pass — 5–2 (pass) · upper
• AB 1978 GONZALEZ Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 68–7 (pass) · lower
• Do pass as amended. — 14–6 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Gonzalez — primary (person)
• Beall — coauthor (person)
• Campos — coauthor (person)
• Chu — coauthor (person)
• Cristina Garcia — coauthor (person)
• Lopez — coauthor (person)
• McCarty — coauthor (person)
• Rodriguez — coauthor (person)
• Santiago — coauthor (person)
• Thurmond — coauthor (person)
• Weber — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-16 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-17 From printer. May be heard in committee March 18.
• 2016-03-14 Referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2016-03-15 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-03-16 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2016-03-28 In committee: Set, first hearing. Hearing canceled at the request of author.
• 2016-04-13 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to Com. on L. & E. Read second time and amended. reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-04-14 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2016-04-21 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (April 20). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-11 In committee: Set, first hearing. Referred to APPR. suspense file. referral-committee
• 2016-05-27 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 14. Noes 6.) (May 27). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-05-31 Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-01 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-06-02 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 51. Noes 23. Page 5243.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-06 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-06-09 Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. referral-committee
• 2016-06-22 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on L. & I.R. referral-committee, reading-2, amendment-introduction, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-06-29 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 29). 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: Do pass. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (August 11). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-15 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-19 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-22 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-25 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 35. Noes 1. Page 5416.). reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-26 In Assembly. Concurrence in Senate amendments pending. May be considered on or after August 28 pursuant to Assembly Rule 77.
• 2016-08-26 Measure version as amended on August 19 corrected. amendment-passage
• 2016-08-30 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 68. Noes 7. Page 6460.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-09-08 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4 p.m.
• 2016-09-15 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-15 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 373, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6ee5f2f3-0891-4e18-a7f6-911a814d94c3. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).