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Bill	Employment protections: victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking.	Existing law prohibits an employer from discharging or in any manner discriminating or retaliating against an employee who is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking for taking time off from work for specified purposes related to addressing the domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking. Existing law provides that any employee who is discharged, threatened with discharge, demoted, suspended, or in any manner discriminated or retaliated against in the terms and conditions of employment by his or her employer because the employee has taken time off for those purposes is entitled to reinstatement and reimbursement for lost wages and work benefits caused by the acts of the employer, as well as appropriate equitable relief, and is allowed to file a complaint with the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within the Department of Industrial Relations. Existing law establishes the Labor Commissioner as the head of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.	us/states/ca	California Legislature	20152016	AB 2337	California AB 2337 (20152016)	bill	Employment protections: victims of domestic violence sexual assault or stalking.	enacted	Burke	8	27	8	2016-02-18	2016-09-14	openstates	ocd-bill/3173b671-6b9c-4bc4-a904-0ef121a50ce2	http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB2337	bfef645c289f1bd9376be714e3fccef25eef86b2a0e9e73fe22c1024b6d4e15b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ca

California AB 2337 (20152016) — Employment protections: victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking.

Existing law prohibits an employer from discharging or in any manner discriminating or retaliating against an employee who is a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking for taking time off from work for specified purposes related to addressing the domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking. Existing law provides that any employee who is discharged, threatened with discharge, demoted, suspended, or in any manner discriminated or retaliated against in the terms and conditions of employment by his or her employer because the employee has taken time off for those purposes is entitled to reinstatement and reimbursement for lost wages and work benefits caused by the acts of the employer, as well as appropriate equitable relief, and is allowed to file a complaint with the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement within the Department of Industrial Relations. Existing law establishes the Labor Commissioner as the head of the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement.

Version chain

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

1. 02/18/16 - Introduced (filed) — source
2. 03/18/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
3. 04/20/16 - Amended Assembly (committee substitute) — source
4. 06/09/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
5. 08/04/16 - Amended Senate (committee substitute) — source
6. 09/14/16 - Chaptered (committee substitute) — source
7. AB2337 (committee substitute) — source
8. 08/23/16 - Enrolled (enrolled) — source

Votes

• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 3–0 (pass) · upper
• 3rd Reading AB2337 Burke By Jackson — 38–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass as amended and be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 10–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass, but first be re-referred to the Committee on [Appropriations] — 7–0 (pass) · upper
• Do pass. — 20–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2337 BURKE Concurrence in Senate Amendments — 78–0 (pass) · lower
• Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — 7–0 (pass) · lower
• AB 2337 BURKE Assembly Third Reading — 73–0 (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• Burke — primary (person)
• Jackson — coauthor (person)

Timeline

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

• 2016-02-18 Read first time. To print. reading-1
• 2016-02-19 From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
• 2016-03-17 Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-03-18 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
• 2016-03-28 Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. referral-committee
• 2016-04-07 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 7. Noes 0.) (April 6). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-04-19 From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended and re-refer to Com. on APPR. (Ayes 10. Noes 0.) (April 19). amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage
• 2016-04-20 Read second time and amended. amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-04-21 Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee
• 2016-05-04 From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 20. Noes 0.) (May 4). committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-05-05 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-05-19 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 73. Noes 0. Page 4859.) reading-3, passage, reading-1
• 2016-05-19 In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. reading-1
• 2016-05-26 Referred to Coms. on L. & I.R. and JUD. referral-committee
• 2016-06-08 From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 3. Noes 0.) (June 8). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-06-09 From committee chair, with author's amendments: Amend, and re-refer to committee. Read second time, amended, and re-referred to Com. on JUD. 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 7. Noes 0.) (June 21). Re-referred to Com. on APPR. referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage
• 2016-08-01 From committee: Be placed on second reading file pursuant to Senate Rule 28.8. committee-passage
• 2016-08-02 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-04 Read third time and amended. Ordered to second reading. reading-3, amendment-passage, reading-1
• 2016-08-08 Read second time. Ordered to third reading. reading-2, reading-1
• 2016-08-15 Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 38. Noes 0. Page 4971.). 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.
• 2016-08-22 Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 78. Noes 0. Page 6059.). committee-passage-favorable, amendment-passage
• 2016-08-26 Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 4:30 p.m.
• 2016-09-14 Approved by the Governor. executive-signature
• 2016-09-14 Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 355, Statutes of 2016.

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/3173b671-6b9c-4bc4-a904-0ef121a50ce2. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).