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type: "Bill"
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title: "Grocery workers."
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description: "Existing law regulates various aspects of the workplace and employee safety and health."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ca"
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legislature: "California Legislature"
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session: "20152016"
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identifier: "AB 359"
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citation: "California AB 359 (20152016)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: ["Grocery workers."]
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: ["Gonzalez"]
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version_count: 7
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action_count: 21
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vote_count: 5
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first_action: "2015-02-17"
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last_action: "2015-08-17"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/97e67860-5498-450a-a8d5-049c300e1aa9"
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source_url: "http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB359"
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source_hash: "e87ee1da0c2d5468cc51dc4693b4b564d499ec2e6d323a6ec5448bdb0af8e8bb"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ca"]
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---
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# California AB 359 (20152016) — Grocery workers.
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Existing law regulates various aspects of the workplace and employee safety and health.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **02/17/15 - Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB359&version=20150AB35999INT)
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2. **03/26/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB359&version=20150AB35998AMD)
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3. **05/14/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB359&version=20150AB35997AMD)
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4. **05/18/15 - Amended Assembly** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB359&version=20150AB35996AMD)
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5. **08/17/15 - Chaptered** (committee substitute) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB359&version=20150AB35994CHP)
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6. **AB359** (committee substitute) — [source](http://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billNavClient.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB359)
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7. **07/15/15 - Enrolled** (enrolled) — [source](https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billPdf.xhtml?bill_id=201520160AB359&version=20150AB35995ENR)
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## Votes
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- AB 359 GONZALEZ Assembly Third Reading — **46–27** (pass) · lower
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- 3rd Reading AB359 Gonzalez By Leyva — **22–14** (pass) · upper
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- Do pass as amended. — **7–3** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass and be re-referred to the Committee on [Judiciary] — **5–2** (pass) · lower
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- Do pass — **4–1** (pass) · upper
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## Sponsors
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- Gonzalez — primary (person)
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- Bonilla — coauthor (person)
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- Bonta — coauthor (person)
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- Chiu — coauthor (person)
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- Eduardo Garcia — coauthor (person)
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- Gatto — coauthor (person)
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- Holden — coauthor (person)
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- Leyva — principal coauthor (person)
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- O‘Donnell — coauthor (person)
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- Rendon — coauthor (person)
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- Ridley-Thomas — principal coauthor (person)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2015-02-17** Read first time. To print. `reading-1`
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- **2015-02-18** From printer. May be heard in committee March 20.
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- **2015-03-26** Referred to Coms. on L. & E. and JUD. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-03-26** 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`
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- **2015-04-06** Re-referred to Com. on L. & E. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-05-07** From committee: Do pass and re-refer to Com. on JUD. (Ayes 5. Noes 2.) (May 6). Re-referred to Com. on JUD. `referral-committee, committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2015-05-13** From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended. (Ayes 7. Noes 3.) (May 12). `amendment-introduction, committee-passage, amendment-passage`
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- **2015-05-14** Read second time and amended. Ordered returned to second reading. `amendment-passage, reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-05-18** Read second time. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-05-18** Amended. Ordered to third reading.
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- **2015-05-18** (Page 1473.)
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- **2015-05-26** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Senate. (Ayes 46. Noes 27. Page 1586.) `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-05-26** In Senate. Read first time. To Com. on RLS. for assignment. `reading-1`
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- **2015-06-04** Referred to Com. on L. & I.R. `referral-committee`
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- **2015-06-25** From committee: Do pass. (Ayes 4. Noes 1.) (June 24). `committee-passage-favorable, committee-passage`
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- **2015-06-29** Read second time. Ordered to third reading. `reading-2, reading-1`
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- **2015-07-13** Read third time. Passed. Ordered to the Assembly. (Ayes 22. Noes 14. Page 1899.). `reading-3, passage, reading-1`
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- **2015-07-13** In Assembly. Ordered to Engrossing and Enrolling. `committee-passage`
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- **2015-08-03** Enrolled and presented to the Governor at 3 p.m.
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- **2015-08-17** Approved by the Governor. `executive-signature`
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- **2015-08-17** Chaptered by Secretary of State - Chapter 212, Statutes of 2015.
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/97e67860-5498-450a-a8d5-049c300e1aa9`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official California legislature records).
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